The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-03-21
on the farm or at the work bench . GER

on the farm or at the work bench GER
tain number Of hours each day.
Third. A disputed point with all these
college officials was, what proportion of
the time of boy who had four years in
which to run lis college course, should
be given to study and what to manual
labor. Some eontended that boy Of
quick, active mind, who aspired to sue
cess in life, had his course OF study in
jured by working three hours per day,
while others thought he could work
proftably double that length of time.
The impression created upon me by most
of these men WIS, that they would much
prefer the manual labor part Of the course
should be transferred to some other COL
lege than their own.
Fourth. 1t WIS an admitted fact by all
of these Professors, that although these
were Agricultural and Mechanical Col
leges, not one boy in twenty took full
agricultural course; and in one college
where there were stated to be near two
hundred students, there was but one sg-
ricultural student.
These ideas may suggest food for
thought for our Legislature, and suggest
a method of solving the State College
question. With that grand old campus,
and those buildings, and that library,
why could not our State with another ad-
ditional land grant from Congress endow
in Columbia an Agricultural College that
would at its birth be the peer of any in
the Union?
There is now bill before Congress,
reported favorably upon by the Commit
tee on Public Lands, appropriating IL
number of acres 10 the several States in
proportion to Ititeracy. As the census
of 1870 asserts that, out of a total popu-
lation of 705,G06 in South Carolina,
there are 265, 1872 of and above ten years
of age who can neither read nor write, if
this distribution of the public lands
should be made upon the ratio of illite-
racy, there is little doubt but that South
Carolina will receive quite enough to en-
dow college Tor each of the two races
that occupy her soil.
The Indian Territory had two dele.
gates, half breeds, in the Agricultural
Congress. One Of them, Col. Adair, a
Cherokee, gave s. very interesting talk of
near two hours concerning the FIVE civil
lied Indian tribes-the Creeks, the Cher.
okees, the Chicasaws, the Choctaws and
the Seminoles, (accent on the last e.
He said they had council from these
FIVE nations, similar to our Congress.
Each tribe had its Legislature. They
had laws similar to ours schools, COL
leges, churches, and we'll organized go
ciety. The English language was taught
in their schools, but the Bible and an
English dictionary had been translated
into the languages of these five tribes
each tribe spoke distinct language, but
they were being gradually absorbed by
the English, as the Indian himself was
rapidly having his blood absorbed by
that Of the white man.
During the war these FIVE tribes sent
several regiments to both the Federal
and Confederate armies. Col. Adair
said, with good deal of eloquence and
emphasis, 81, sir, and my command, cast
our fortunes with the South, while my
friend and colleague here, Col. Brown,
cast in his lot with the North. We were,
then, enemies; to-day We are one in
friendship"
His narrative of their condition after
the war, when both armies had passed
back and forward through their entire
boundary, was touching, and convinced
the audience that it is almost an impos-
sibility to starve an Indian if he is per-
mitted to roam.
| Col. Adair said their lands were both
timber and prairie, level and undulating,
rich and poor; that they grew generally
wheat and corn; from 10 to 40 bushels
of wheat, and from 20 to 100 bushels Of
corn per acre. The Cherokees, which is
the largest tribe, numbers about $4,000
souls. The Seminoles, the smallest Of
these five tribes, about 1900 souls. The
other three between these figures.