The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-12-15
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The influence Of the Citadel
Academy.

The friends, and especially the
graduates, Of the South Carolina Mill
tary Academy have read with great
interest and pleasure the articles
which have lately appeared in the
Press Of the State advocating the re,
suscitation Of that useful institution.
The merits of the military system Of
education adopted there, and the ele-
vated morale infused into all who bad
been connected with it, have been set
forth vi'hout exaggeration but the
full e. of its influence has, as yet,
been understated. 1t should not be
forgotten that besides those brought
directly under its admirable training,
there have been large number, az,
gregating many hundreds of youths in
South Carolina and other Southern
States, who were im ediately subjected
to the same training in other institu-
tions through the instruuentality Of
the Citadel graduates Two members
ofthe eighth class of graduates, Messrs.
jenkins and Coward, convinced that
the great disproportion between the
number of matriculates and the mum.
Der of graduates was mainly due to
waut of proper preparation on the
part of the applicants, and believing
that the discipline and methods of in
struction of their Alma Mater could
be successfully used in preparatory
high school, established in Yorkville,
S. c., in 1886, the Kings Mountain
Military School The immediate and
almost phenomenal success of their
enterprise induced them to erect
substantial and com modious barracks,
and encouraged like ventures on the
part of others. Two years later Capt.
Tew, graduate and then superin-
dent of the Arsenal Academy, re-
signed and established a similar insti-
tuition at Hlllsboro', N. C. About
the same time, Messrs. Doyley and
Davis started one at Murfreesboro' =,
Tenn: Mangum, one at Aiken, S. c.,
and in 1859 E. NJ. Law, with his
brother, one at Tuskeegee, Alabama,
aud other graduates were called to the
control of or professorships in military
schools in other States.
All of these were graduates Of the
Citadel, and all enjoyed full meas.
ure of success until the rude blast of
war Summoned them, with most Of
their pupils: to illustrate on sterner
fields the mettle of their pasture
The casualties of battle and the wreck
of State and fortunes. swept away the
mother institution and all, except one,
Of these her children.
The Kings Mountain Military
School, under its surviving principal,
raised its flag again in 1866 and still
keeps it flying.
In 1878, Col. J. ?. Thouas, a
graduate and formerly superintendent
| of one branch of the State Military
Academy, founded the Carolina Mil
itary Institute at Charlotte, n. c.,
and within the last three years Capt.
}. B Patrick, likewise graduate
and at one time professor in the
Arsenal Academy, founded the Green
vile Military Institute. Thus it is
seen that the spirit of the State Mill
tary Academy still survives; that she,
though dead, Yetspeaketh ) and that
her influence, through secondary yet
ever widening circles, is still felt
throughout the State.
That three institutions just named,
standing as they do upon the basis Of
private enterprise and dependent
wholly upon patronage for support,
have been able to compete success
fully With the we'll endowed colleges
of the South, demonstrates clearly
that the system of training perpet.
uated by them still has hold on the
appreciation of our people 1t is nat,
uraI that it should be so; for thought
full men cannot fail to recognize the
fact that the maintenance Of q repub
lican government and its material
progress depend upon the existence
of certain public and private virtue:
in its citizens, such as a reverent re
spect for law, love of orde:: anc
system, the subordination Of indiVid
aality to public good, devotion t.
duty, high personal honor, and I
manly disposition to 'scorD delight
and live laborious days These wer'
the virtues cultivated by the Citade
training. Would it not, then, be th'
, policy Of sound wisdom for the Stat'