Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-12-03

! sStshall educate the scholar ard yet ea}
the: artisan, that shall make the NH
4 {of culture and yet preserve the fosts
. era We 8believesit is, and that I'll
j. Agricultural ColIegs. Of Michigan
jsuch an institution. This leads US
4 consider the general purposes Of th
i 1.college. The first one Waswill moi
is that it seeks to foster and encou.
age the industrial impulse. I'll
country is full to repletion Of lawyer
doctors, clerks, agents and brokers,S
percentage honest, worthy, ablelI lie
borious gentlemen, ornaments to thei
profession; but large properties
living by their costs, jugglers in tn
strict sense of the. term. making |
precarious living, seeking, some 3
them. to wear clean clothes at th
expense of clean character-all .
them desiring to live without work
We have enough of such. As lul
they have a hard time, and did theS
but know it little hard manual la
bor would be tonic to their man
hood. But, in the first place, they
are shirks naturally, and in the sec
ond place they have had association
that led them to believe manual Ia
Dor degrading. Mere drudgery, W,
grant, is not ennoblingin any pursuit
but to say or believe that intelligent
labor is degrading, isa reflection upor
the Divine mind which created hands
as we'll as brains. They go together
Drudgery, without intelligence, il
slavery; labor, with intelligence, ii
freedom. Whatever interests man
has growth in it. Greek roots have
made some very small men, the other
kind some very large ones. There is
health and vigor in knowing how to
do something, there is better health
and more manly vigor in doing it. A
man with trade has "a moral capa'
bility; it is fence around his ener.
gies to keep off trespassera. The
Jews used to say, He that teacheth
not his son trade doeth the same as
if he taught him to be thief" You
give man something for his hands
to do and you take hostage for good
citizenship. The habit of daily toll
is better conservator of the peace
than paid constable. Our prisons
are filed with losfers, our poorhouses
with beggsrs and our politics with
demagogues gravitated thither for
the want of the little moral purpose
lying behind a good days work. So
we believe that the best legacy one
can leave to son is willingness to
work. We believe that institution is
best that not only teaches the law,
but teaches a trade; that not only
teaches science, but what to do with.
it; that teaches the application as
we'll as the theory, and above all,
that teaches that all labor is honora-
Bile.
"There il moral influence around
institut ons as veil as surrounding
men. They have character as we'll
no two alike. The air is full ol
the predomina'ing purpose. A true
normal school is full of the teacher'e
work. Instructors talk about it,
students write and crate about it; &c
with law or medical school, each is
filled with a peryading strength, 8
predominstlng sentiment which gives
character to the institution and to the
students. To like degree isit true
that an institution like this, where a.;
stated times all workwith their hands'+
will turn-o out students that manual
labor is not dishonorable, that taxa
pleasure in robust work directed By.
intelligence. Such an institution hds
such morale in it and about it that
young men will leave ita halls and
enter the shop or go to the farm wit b
NO sense Of humiliation or disgrace,
Capable Of managing afTairaof Stale
and of putting their hands to work Ct
any thing worth doing. We believe
this, college has tbs power to msBe
just such men, and we proclaim to:sll
the world that We do not wanta young
man who is ashamed to work with
his hands as we'll as his brain. II be
can accomplish more by brain work
after he leaves US, well and good, we
do not object but whether he can or
not he will not feel above work on the
farm or in the shop. fle will do that
cheerfully because he will feel there
is no disgracs,in it. That is the initial
point in the character Of the young
men we seek to send out. We want
no loafers here, and we shall mourn
over loafer who carries our degree
with him to the busy world to which
we accredit him."
IS IT HEREsY2
All THE, no doubt, is downright
heresy to many men in our State; but
as sure as the sun rises and sets we
must come to believe in this doctrine
and practice it before there can be
any return of prosperity to our State.
The negro has ceased to be a mudsill
upon which to stand, or an umbrella
under which we can be pro6tably
protected from the sun rays. Three.
fourths Of the people Of this State are
farmers, and must continue farmers
whether farming pays or not. Our
lands are growing poorer constantly,
and under the system generally pur.
sued can never be built up. Nothing
but an institution similar to that in
Mississippi, which was modelled after
that Of Michigan, will ever cause q
change till it is too late and many Of