The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-08-24

cied the pupils taught by Mr.. Lesley
whom its claimed by; you was "a greater
teacher than DR.. Waddell ever was,"
and you assert that you "can name MS
many and as great men who were taught
by the former as were taught by the lat
ter" Now for the proof You have
published your roll, and although
comparisons are odious. will accept
your challenge and leave it to an unprc-
judiced public decide.
From among the names Of DR.. Wad-
dell's pupils III mention VIM. H. Craw-
ford of Georgia, Eldrcd Simkns and
John G. Calhoun, then few years after
these come w. d. Martin Judge and M i.
c.; James L. Pettigru, the eminent law
yer; Adrew Covan, M. c.; Hugh S. Le-
gare, Nj. c., Attorney General, Foreign
and Cabinet Minister; George McDuffiie,
NJ. c., Governor, United States Senator !;
George r. Tillman, NJ. G. and Governor
Georgia; George Carey, NJ. c.. Georgia !;
John Walker, NJ. g., Alabama; Henry
w. Collier, NJ. G.. and Chancellor, Ala.
bama; George w. Crawford, NJ. C. and
Governor, Georgia Patrick Noble, Gov
ernor d. L: Wardlaw, Judge; L. II.
Wardlaw, Chancellor; A. b. Longstrcet
Judge, President of Oxford College and
also of South Carolina College and last
ly the inimitablc Ned Brace of the
Georgia Scenes.''s DO you call all OF
these small lights even lesser than
McDuffie ? Are there no: many even in
the above list before whose brilliancv
your list dwindles and paleS How
many colleges are there that can
boast-su an array of great names up
on the roll Of their. Alumni ? Some Of
them have made regulations not confin-
cd to the American Continent, and will
you compare any pupil ever taught by
any of the teachers named by you to
some Of these In tribute to DR.. Wad-
dell one Of his distinguished pupils said:
From under the teachings Of this man
have gone forth one Vice President, and
many Foreign and Cabinet ministers, and
Senator's, Congressman, Governors,
Judges, Presidents and Professors of
colleges, eminent divines, barristers,
jurists, legislators. physicians, military
and naval oflicers''
Are all these statements and infer.
ences subject to a Thousand disprovals
by tangible facts and volumes Of indis-
putnble evidence ? II so, I call upon
you to disprovc them You have under
taken to do So. aud after voluntarily as
suming the responsibility yen will be
expected to do it. Although, as YOU
have said, these statements have been
repeated by Judges, literary speakers
and orators, until the public know then,
by heart,' still no one in all that time
has ventured to deny them. You have
given the names OF Several M:u were
not tanghtb by Mr.. Lesly. Eldred Simp-
kins was pupil Of Dr. WaddelI in 1900
at the same time with ". II. Crawford
and ohm c. Calhoun, long before Mr..
Lesly was born. Whitfield Brooks.
father of Hon. Preston s., was student
in the South Carolina College in 1912,
also before or near about the time Mr..
Lesly was born. T. e. Perrin was in
college in 1926, six years in advance of
Mr.. Lesly who was in the class of 1882.
w. q. MoIagne went to college from the
| Wellington school with P s. Brooks and
Il. G. Middleton with whom he roomed
SO the lattor informed me. Mr. Editor,
when your list is reduced to its proper
er length, some Of the most impor tan.k
and prominent names are lost to the tail
of your elaborate kite. So, Mr.. Editor,
you must reconstruct it. Another error
into, which you have fallen is the state
ment made by you that '.about the same
time that DR.. Waddell taught his fam Gus
school at Wilmington there was an institu-
tien Of learning ut Due West presided
over by such as the prcsslys and
Youngs." "From the year 1906 to l81O,"
says the author to whom ain indebted
for much valuable information about
the Wellington school taught by Dr.
Waddell, "was the most fruitful of great
men Of any period of the same length.
during the whole time of DIR. Waddelrs
instructorship, and it was during the pe-
RODS includings these dates that he
sen forth the McDuffies, Legares,
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