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ture, music and poetry. But they arc n part
OF aesthetic culture, that Is. the natural result
tant Of scientific and practical education.
What practical education is TO ornamental cd
%ucltiOn, the ROOT and leaves OF the rose are TO
the flower In full bloom.
! am opposed to the 10th section OF the
bill, that ~"DrOperty, real or personal, rights
OF property and credits belonging or apper-
tanning to the Agricultural college, snail vest
IN and become the absolute property OF the
University of South CAROLINA
On July :, 1852, the Congress Of the United
States passed an act donating 100000 acres OF
! pubic lands to the several States and Terri
tories which may provide colleges for the
benefit Of agriculture and The mechanic arts.
The State accepted the provisions Of the
act OF Cong! eSs above named, and agreed to
the conditions specified in said act of Con-
greSS. Sec revised Statutes, Chapter MI,
sec. :, page 25i.
The South Carolina Agricultural College
and Mechanics Institute was incorporated
March 18th, Is73, for the purpose carrying out
the objects Of this donation Of tile General
Government.
In accordance with the provisions of the
act above cited IN Revised Statutes. puSe
2li, in SECTIONS ). 1. 5and q. the then GioverIi-
or, secretary OF State and encouragement,
paced the land scrip for the lhO,OVO acres OF
land In the hands OF the State financial agent
in New York. lie sold tho lsU.Em acres Of
land scrip at ~ cents per acre., Which
amounted to Sl6O, 1000. This was Invested in
SIX per cent. bonds Of this State, and purchas-
cu DOlluS 10 tlc amount ol SlNO,ilo. THESE
bonds were hypotlecatcd by the financial
agent, without authority OF law. and were
sold in default Uf payment in New York. and
brought seventeen cents on the dollar. Some
Of them have been consolidated under the act
of IS7j,
In Section 9Th of the Act OF Congress, viz:
And Il" ii further enacted, THAT The grant Of
land scrip hereby authorized shall be made
on the following conditions, to which, as well
rs tlc provisions hercinbcfors contained, the
previous assent of the several Suites shall be
signiled by legislative acts. First. If any
portion OF the fund invested, as provided by
the foregoing section, or II portion oil the
interests thereon, should by any action or
contingency he diminished or lost, II shall he
replaced BY the State TO which it belongs, so
that the c.lpltll of the fund shall remain for
ever undlminiSlled, and that the annual In
tcrc,ts shall be regularly applied without dis
elimination to the purposes mentioned III the
It'll SECTION Of this act,'-it would seem that
the State has The power to protect herself
from This grand fraud, as the numbers OF the
DU!lu can De aScrrtaincu, and as she Will have
to pay the interest on these bonds If they arc
not thrown out by the General Assembly, and
she would have the right to issue a bond in
the place of those that have been frauduiently
disposed Of or lost.
am opposed To giving this fund or the an
nual interest, which amounts to Sll 900. to the
Ciallin Institute, One OF the provisions Of
the act of Congress prohibits the expenditure
OF this fund. or the interest arising therrfrUm
in the purchasing Of lands and the erection of
buildings, thereon for the purposes indicated
In the uCi. 1t was expected that the States
and Territories would provide for the same.
In Massachusetts the State has added not
less than S3Jo ,UUD To the fund received from the
government. In Vermont and New lIalnp-
shire the fund has been connected with inStl-
tutionS previously founded by the State.
Connecticut added the fund to the scientific
school connected with Yale College. In New
York It was added to funds amounting to two
millions OF dullars. Pennsylvania, Michigan,
Maryland and Iowa have adopted Il similar
disposition OF the fund. Michigan cNpcnds
thirty-Iivc Thousand dollars annually on her
agricultural college.
70 recur TO the system of education that /
have been pressing upnnthc attention OF the
Senate; | would not have you overlook the
development of the moral and religious prin.
ciple in the youths Of the Ian In our schools
and colleges. Teach them 10 be patriotic,
honest and truthful; energetic, brave morally
and physically, virtuouS and good, for these
are the great characteristics that go 10 make
u great people.
Teach them the great truths Of Christianity;
impress upon them that true religion Is II
catholic sentiment that finds its home In the
hearts Of civilized humanity. Tha the
church is but the external representation Of
the religious faith.
Instead of teaching them to read the absurd
theology OF Hc$iud, the supcrStitlOus crics Of
Homer and the laSciviouS OdrS of Horace,
teach them to read and understand the grand
epic written by the finger Of Cod upon the
Strata OF the earth.