, 1874-11-04
KING CARROT IN CAROLINA.
The College --- Nul1iflcat1on's
Alma-Mater.
How It Govcrnctl---A Lesson
from Denl Walls.

4H0 HGlAIlCUSlt E0!HCAy IA LIZ AOl eRtA~H
wtlcro tho loose music Of O1foubaoh and Tho
Grookish dialogue Of Sardou woro put at once
to tho illustration and tho tlagel'ation Of tbo'r
period, contaiuod among others, two suggestive
sconca:
First. IN tho Hall Of Armore, where tho pro1'i-
gnto young King, asBuming to make tho e1isetes
OF his ancestry smoke mud drink, ia cnrsed by
them aloud In chorus. Again. whore fompe'l'
restored in its opulonce and crowd, sinks aud-
denly from tho s.asc, ard nothing remains but
eono ruins urou o wasto Of landscape. TO which
tic chorus addresses tender clergy.
n ,vaa with Bon,o remembrance Of thoso scenes
that stood, In tho n,1tun,n Of ths yoar, 1871 at
tho ...--.
GATEWAY OF THE COLLEGE
of South Carolina, in tho city of Columbia, and
behold in tho inclosod Bqua1e, tho atago OF ono
Of tho swcoteet and most grotcsqMo comoslioa to
which muBic md sentiment might be wrltton*
Tho greatness and mistako Of tho most blii3innt
statp iu tho South were organized about
this College. 11oro tho arising-inaeed, tho
arson- Commonwealth placod tta opinion
and culture in tr,1atoosiip, Auf nursea ssa Gov
ernora a,,tl statesmen. For llnlf-a~century, tho
Professors, yinitory, aud Alumni Of this College
prescribed Tho politics Of tho State, md Of much
nj tic United States "a well. NRdlcafsn In
thought and inquiry, publica1n In It's latest scope
md freedom, morals and philosophical law, wore
hero not loss distinguishing, however limited tho
arena, t,au at Harvard or Edtnburg. Over
wholmcd by social dolugo, unexpcoted and vio-
lent but not Illogical, any moro than tho Rovo-
lutiou In Franco, which has boon attributed to
Royalty extending protection to Republic,
tho College Of South Carolina Ia to-day a
Negro University. As II the genius Of tho place
had appeared upon tho walls, and, with hor wand.
callod from tho earth lock, turnip, and Carrot to
arise md govern, tho Collogo-yarl fills up with
African lads and girls, few white facca intor-
mixotl and tho State continues to those, by
Legislatures overwhelmingly African, tho lihera'
subady which, to tho gross figure Of d million or
more, y lato Caucasian dynasty gaTo Faculty
aud pnpiiago wholly white.
TOTAL EcIIpsg.
Tho revolution of the War may bo studied at
this spot in it's radical entirotys and 70 perfect
Is tho transformation Of man, 80 perfect tho
antiquity of tho scono, that all merely curront
criticism is superficial, and the mind nttains
reach and prospect afforded only whore poetry
and history enlarge each other.
THE scEsg
ia Academic. 4 brick wall and central galloway.
in shaty street Of the width, uniform in Colun1-
bia, Of 100 fcet, lead tho eyo to plaza shated
With aak.trcca, and on three sides bordored with
dwellings and hnlla, gonorally Of brick, ofson
Yipe-clad and oruamoutcd with 1ower~bcds
and in tho contre IL Collego-monun1cnt Of
pious record. Tho yiHtn Of the Btreot, Lend
ing to theso grounds, II closed 5y
tho Public Hall,-thc, scene Of TIM
COMMENCEMENT md ExhibitionB.-which ro-
se,nblos in its Corln thian columns and portico
the Church Of tho Aladelalue in Paris. Near
at hand IL tho State Capito! bui!ding,-a granite
etifce Of moro protonsions than tho original
Capitol ut Washington, whose elaborate wings 1t
antcdatea in tloaiEt The mononthto ms' coluMmna'
still reposo upon tho grass aud other massiVo
blocks lio oyer tho commons. while the structure
ia Just habtabo undor its roof OF b'hckoncd
ptnnkB, vet gorgeouB IN chaEnbess carpoteA and
furnished By tho plundor Of tho people. There
tho State Treasurer ia Hebrew negro,
educated in Scotland; tho Governor III
On Hebraio native. educated at this College i
tho chief military officer il negro Of tho local
name Of uayne; the Lientonant-aoYernor Is az
roEuar-arn1y officer. OF tho cnBa atiGmatizca aB
.carpet- -baEgcrB u; tho Attorney -General con-
Quoted most Of tho Advertisements work for
tho Confederate army; tho Supreme Court ia
composed Of HebroW. visiting negro, and @
Northern Immigrant. Massachusetts aud Penn
sylvnnia furnish tho organizing mind at tho
now 6tato, It was perhaps inevitable that the
College should follow its almsgivors Into tho AZ
eican camp .- .--.,..
IN marble relieve. Of Hayno aud A1cDuiiio: Tho
iron monument in tho State-IIouHo yard. Of n
palmetto tree, coiored to nnturo. is to common
orato the soldory killed in tho pursuit OF Texas
from Mexico. Negro consicts, guarded byn
il which, it was believed, tho permanent Gov
nrnment Of tho SlaYo Republic would mako its
Capitol. Tho roal Government, though hostili-
tics have now ccnsod nearly ton years,
ia afforded by those two compaufes OF
College and Capitol, who aro inspected
every troruing, and whoso officers, though apart
from politics, aro upon slight nocal terms with
tho old part Of tho populaeet:, From A. the hoights
whose springs arc III tho Appalachian Mountains
Is unfoItcd to the eyo, with its distant boundary
Of blue ridge. From tho othor Bido, the cannon
eeru Of Sherman, late IN the War directed thoil
shells upon the sy Tst " m the 70 s,, Nov World per
Republican lllo moving with the rapidisy q
the Will, eyou when affixed 10 Slavery, hat
spannel centuries Of ordinary movement in tht
history Of tllls town: It was tho first dolibarato
Reyolutionsry War; and the great native soldtcl
Of that War, sumtor. lived III this vicinity unti
pultcation BECAME tho policy Of tho State, o.
nntil less than thirty years from tho outbreak q
tho Nnr Of Secession. Here, 100 miles from thu
from tho Euglial aettonont Of the State. thu
Legislature was convened the year after Waal,
ington'a inauguration, aud =. Constitution va.
forthwith debated md issued hero which, will
1lnimportnnt amendments, lasted as long o
Slavery. The year after Washington City va
occupied by John Adams mud his bureau officers
TUE COLLEGE
Of South Carolna Was endowed to giyo digait
aud scholarship to tho Capital town, then abate'
in tho foreata and 508. .0o0-no mean sum il
s!,oeo days-was appropriated for these yoner
ablo buildings whlel, we still behold. Hence
forward tho College wRs tho intellectual invie
orator Of the State, s,-,oaring that relation to til
Capito. which the College Of Tue psopagand
boarB to tho Papal Throne, and established bo
meath it's caves.
clrcunlatantial jeaultry selected It's Proei
dents and Professors, not tho affinity of til
native people for who could hage predicted fo
this virgin school that tho accidents al wind an
flood would bring to it's threshold. aa Calvin VA
brought to Geneva, tllo pupil Of the Fsenc
Revolution and the disciple of priossley. Thoma
"copper"
IIo arrived ut Columbla in tim yoar 1851!
eleven years betoro tho aaccess Of Notification
of wl1ioi he was tho powerful procoptor. ATTIC
tho g1coeys OF Ills ultra doctrines OF proynci.
6oyeregnty, no revised tho stattobo Of tho Stat.
i,o N rn, nj Tint lin rn,,,Iio~ 1o,,