The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-25

any other body's, and the farmer of Able.
Vile Will not yield the field to others and
thereby give up their just rights, and &C.
knowledge their own inleriorlty TO any ny.
ing man. Wherever they are, Is the right
place. they feel that where McGregor sits there
is the place of honor.
II. The proposition to retire the farmers
sons from the South Carolina College in order
that they may be toled off to the mountains,
TO consrcgate in a little squad in seclusion to
themselves, is an lndignity which they
should promptly and vigorously resent.
coming from Whatever I source: Inc press ana ma
posed to any such movement against the
bone and sinew Of the country, and we
trust that no man in Abbeville county may
seek Legislative honors who does not believe
the farmers sons are the equal Of anybodys
sons.
The farmers Of Abbevillc county are an ed
sence OF any living man, neither do they feel
theirinferioritytoa any number OF self-sufiicient
men. In times past the farmers OF this eoun-
ty have made OF their sons distinguished citi-
Zens, soldiers, preachers, lawyers, Judges, doc.
tors, statesmen, orators, teachers, oificers-all
these-and the present proposition for this set
of farmers to retire from the college which
their M sons to the cotton patch, will met With
the fate 1t deserves. Not until the farmers
are willing to write themselves down as In
ferior to their ancestors, will they consent to
the proposed Injustice and indignity to their
own sons. The sons of the farmers OF Abbe-
VILE county are good enough to 60 to any col
lege on the face Of the earth, and they do not
intend to be sent to a little manual labor
school, when they can do better. They do
not propose to be set off in n second class COL
lege. They take the bost places or none at
all.
15 People who may be content for their
sons to plod on "in the way their fathers
trod" may be satisfied with q manual labor
school-an institution necessarily inferior or
less desirable than any one of thousand
public schools in the State-but we believe
they will kick when 1t is publicly proposed to
assign their sons to such an institution.
16 If one Of Charleston's Senators, or one
Of the various members of the House from
that city who occupy seats which belongs TO
the country Districts, would introduce bill
something like this, we presume there would
be genuine stirring up of the animals all
along the line:
Whereas. the number of offices In this State
are limited, and whereas, graduates OF either
of the South Carolina College, the Citadel, or
some Of the denominational Colleges, usually
fill these places, and 10 the end that the sons
of the farmers may not come In competition
with our sons,
Therefore be it enacted, &c, that "one-
horse" agricultural college be established at
some secluded spot-the' Clemson. estate,
for instance-where the sons OF farmers may
learn the science Of dropping corn, acquire
the art Of digging potatoes, and perfect the
best plan OF plugging water melons, where
their minds may not be diverted from
the honorable business of farming, and thus
leave the political offices and the learned pro-
feSSiOnS to our sons.