The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-08-13
HOYT & CO., Proprietors.

ture up to the wheat and oats land that run
up to the slopes of its mountains, it presents
an area for human industry that in older and
better educated countries would be crowded
with thrifty and prosperous population ;
while its mineral and manufacturing resources
contrast sadly in their abundant profusion with
countries which have grown rich and famous
by the intelligent development of a 1.-THE of
its boarded and wasted material wealth.
But these resources cannot be reached or used
without knowledge. As an illustration of the
direct effect of this scientific knowledge upon
the material prosperity of country, they
would commend the following fact to consid-
Grafton:
"In 1918, Dombasle established the Agrcul
tural College of Roville. For several years
that establishment was q blessing to France.
Records of its practical and experimental agri-
culture were published, and with the best
effects but at last Dombase had sunk health
and fortune, and the College stopped. 1t was
spoken of as failure. Was it failure
Two young men quietly went out from it and
wrote an answer on the soil of France-wrote
il in letters so deep and wide that it will never
be effaced. The first of these young men went
out upon the wretched, barren heaths of
Brittany; took over 10000 acres-brought to
bear upon it the science and practice he had
learned at Roville, and produced noble, fer
tile farm. That farm is now the seat of an
Agricultural College, and centre from which
has radiated scientific and practical knowledge
for the reclamation of all that part OF France.
"Another pupil, NJ. Neviere, went forth He
went to the southeast of France. There he
found, near the confluence of the Rhone and
Saone, district of sixty-seven square leagues
a marsh, supposed to be irreclaimable, with
population dying of fever. He took farm Of
1900 acres, applied methods learned at Ro-
vile, and reclaimed it in two years. The re-
clamation of the remainder followed, the fever
rate sank from twenty per cent. to one-halfp per
cent Of the farm hands The district is now
the seat of thrifty, healthy population, and
in the midst of it stands the Agricultural Col
lege of "La Saulsaie," centre OF sclentlhc
and practical knowledge for all parts of France
AT the Imperial College of Grignon, they
showed me map of France, all dotted over.
Each of these dots represented a graduate.
There they were, in every corner of the coun-
try each man thoroughly trained in the best
science and practice of agriculture. And
Justly, indeed is that institution proud of their
character and influence" ."-President White, Of
Cornell University.
Their object, then, is to establish Scientific
School which would prepare the youth of the
State to become intelligent workers in the ma
terial development of the State. They do not
underrate what may properly be called high
er culture. They do not undervalue the grace
and the glory Of arts and literature; but they
know that arts and letters are the development
| - a. kbot, fnrI0l
prosperity they are sure to come, provided that
! there is national character enough to prevent
such prosperity from degenerating into mere
greediness after money. And they know of no
surer preventive to such degradation than the
proper study of science, which, while it makes
knowledge subservient to the wants and COM
forts of humanity, impresses, even in its most
utilitarian teachings, the presence of great
laws, which require patient and unselfish Ia
be- for their comprehension and obedience,
and humility in their application.
The undersigned think that they have found
in recent events a fitting opportunity for the
effort which they propose to make.
Whatever be the estimate placed upon his
the soundness of the political principles which
he lived and died to vindicate, no one but
feels that Mr. Calhoun was the highest repre-
sentative of character and intellect that this
State has given to history. Pure in his private
life, almost to austerity, devoted in his public
life to his sense of duty, with an unsel6shness
of purpose that commanded the respect and
admiration even of those who differed from
him most widely ard bitterly; clinging with
singular tenacity to the sentiment and preju
dices of his native State, and yet identified
with the highest achievements of the Union,
loving both the one and the other with a love
that could not be divided and could not be re-
conciled, he died the highest representative of
all that the State had been in the Union. His
home has been for more than one generation,
an object of reverential pilgrimage, and the
sentiment of our people still heightens the
picturesque beauty of its situation with the
warmth and glow of human affection.
His Immediate representative, the Hon. I. j.
| Clemson, his son-in-law, and who is himself
we'll known from his scientific reputation his
Diplomatic service, and the ability with which
he administered the agricultural department
of the Patent Office, sharing the opinions
which the undersigned have endeavorcd to ex-
press, has offered to them land at Fort Hill AS
the site for such an institution as they propose
to establish.
This site, comprising some of the finest land
on the Seneca River, and at the foot of the
Blue Ridge mountains, combines great beauty
of situation, with exceptional hcalthfulnsss OF
climate 1t is situated in section of the
State cheap and abundant, exempt from many
| Of tho diSadvantanes uhich nirht affect such