Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15

obviously predominant in the regulation of
our governmental affairs, and in the displays
on public occasions, as it evidently does in the
absolute exercise of public authority and the
assertion of the genuine taste and inclinations
of our citizens 1t is but rational desire,
proceeding from no feeling of abject servility
or unmanly pusillanimity on the part of the
thoughtful and sober classes of the people,
that our condition should improve as fast as
possible, in its immunity from suspicion where
we are not understood nor greatly loved or
admired. Thus confidence would more speed
ily revive, and prosperity and peace prevail
in permanent and desirable forms.
The leading men of the State should de-
vote their attention and their time, to the
furthest practicable extent, in the rehabilita-
ton and restoration. upon the irmest possible
bases, the educational interests of the people,
The State should more than ever enlist her
energies and employ her resources and active
forces, in putting within the reach OF all class
es, the advantages Of liberal culture.
The recent war, and our subsequent impov-
erished and PROSTATE condition have militia
ted most seriously against the education OF
our youth and the contemplation Of this
fact, in connection with the future, suggests
the gravest problems for solution. To whose
hands are to be committed the vital interests
of the homestead, the Office, the counting
room, the social circles, and the civil and &C.
clesastical politics? They to whom mental
training and the opportunities of acquiring
systematic knowledge have been denied a.?
Were the children of the Roman senator's.
philosophers, historians, orators and poets,
and the virtuous, sturdy and industrious cltl-.
zens, the equal of their noble sires ? What
ever may have been the causes, the first
named we're efeminate, weak and inadequate
to the demands of the country and Of society.
And, was not this prime cause of the ultl-
mate fall of the mighty empire? Education,
in its liberal sense-training in the highest
and noblest sense, in the various departments
of education-must constitute the corner.
stone Of peoples perpetual greatness, pros:
perity and happiness, both in Church and
State. The common school, the academy and
the college, should, at this very moment, com
mand the most serious thought and the exer.
else of the most enlightened judgment and
the most generous hand, in arresting the tide
of ignorance, fast approaching its food, and
devising measures and means for the eleva:
ton of generation sprung from the loins OF
as noble race as any God has placed upon
the EARTH This is the most precious and en-.
during bequest the passing generation can
possibly secure to the forthcoming and to the
State, once proud and lofty in her cultured,
refined and distinguished sons and daughters.
Proper efforts in this direction will assuredly
turn the poverty of our people into blessing
and Joy. Fail to do this, and what is hoard
ed wealth without mental. moral and social
culture9 We should feel called upon to per-
form the laborious, but not by any means un-
grateful task of rearing upon our sacred soil,
sacred, by reason of immortal memories,
pyramids of BRASS" to survive our day, and
bespeak the growth and elegance of race
suffering no deterioration in consequence Of
the most appalling misfortunes, trials and
back.sets. Esto perpetua will be the motto
chiseled upon these lasting monuments OF un'
diminished greatness. p, OCCASIONAL:
IS. The petition for the transfer Of Smalls'
case to the United States Court cannot find
paternity. Smalls' counsel affirmed that they
had not seen it, when, in Cortland before
the Judge intended to be insulted-they both
defended the document in the usual ad cap'
tandum vulgus style of the politician, and, in
almost the identical language of the petition,
which, like the letters of Junius, is without
an author. The whole trick is understood
here by at least those citizens who, when they
"fought and bled" for the Confederacy, did
not leave 100 slaves to protect their families.
The character of the plunderers of the
State is too we'll understood at home and
abroad, to influence honest people to believe
that they are prosecuted for political pur'
poses. The State proposes to convict these
men by juries composed of colored men of
their own party. Do you apprehend that the
political element adroitly introduced into the
proceedings, will affect their minds and fore
stall their verdict? Will the same plea be
offered for Carpenter and Patterson, both no.
ted politicians? We shall see.
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