The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-05

sovereignty in all its parts. Every
sectarian school for higher education
makes faction and the more you have
Of these schools the more factions you
create Discord, anarchy and utter
ruin must be its ultimate result. 1t IS
entering politics to-day in Edgetield,
Newberry, and IeNpect in every county
in the State. The preachers are die
tating for whom you shall vote and
that vote is recorded for the candidate
who is a member Of one particular
branch of the church. You may smile
and criticize, but ! am telling you the
truth. Who will ever be able to cStl-
mate the untold result that must flow
from the establishment OF & Catholic
University at Washington with an eli
dowment Of eight million dollars. The
Catholics are the most loyal off all Chris
tians, and conservative, too, and situ-
atcd ut the heart of the nation, it will
direct the course Of the blood through
the body polite permeating the whole.
\ St. Peters will soon raise its glorious
front and another Vatican will rest
under its shadow. Then good bye to
liberty.
Washington's idea was for a grand
university at Washington under the
control of the General Government, to
make the whole people homogeneous,
and then preserve the country from
factions. Jeffersons idea-State's rights
being predominant in his nature-was
TO have State University under the
control of the State Government to
make the whole people Of the State
homogeneous and destroy factions in Il
State.
Both were correct and how sublime
We're their ideas! Instead Of Washing
tons National University we are
finally to have Catholic University
and instead of Jefterson's State Univer-
sity, we are to have seven Or eight sec
tartan schools or factions.
Oh for the wisdom of our mighty
dead 20 guide US in the complexity Of
this labyrinth upon which We are enter
ing. Let Us retrace our steps in
our false system of education, be-
fore it IS too late. Surely we have
enough wisdom to save us from tl.at
baptism of blood and anarchy through
which our ancestors went in Europe,
which ended in the dover of our reli-
gious and political liberty.
In view of these things, what are our
duties as teachers in shaping and mould
ing the minds of the rising generations
to think correctly about these things.
Let us teach them never to forget the
heroic sacrifices Of our schoolmates,
brothers and friends whose bones
whiten every hill side and valley in
Virginia They died for preservation
of the integrity Of State Government;
and though their cause seemed to die
with them; yet it must still live if
American liberty is to be preserved.
Let us fight for graded school sys-
tenn throughout our State and let them
be preparatory to grand State Uni
versity which will make our people
homogeneous, and if we do this, and
other States fail to do it, South Carroll
na will 60 down to history as the last
bulwark of American liberty. To us
as teachers belong this duty. How
grand is the opportunity for us to inn
mortalize our calling. Let the sects
have theological training schools and
let the church be our religious instruc-
tors. Let the graded schools and State
University be our literary and political
teachers and We will preserve our
forms of society. Without it we cam
not. What noble calling is ours.
The destiny Of the country is in our
hands. Let us be worthy of it. Let
us discharge our duties with fidelity to
our State, to our race and to ourGod. l
know that we have false standard by
which mans success or failure il life
is judged and that that standard Is the
accumulation and according to which
all teachers lives are failures, for they
are poor and remain poor rs long rs
they are teachers. But on the day OF
reckoning a just judge will mete out
just rewards and on that final day we
will be more than repaid for our trials
and disappointments here, when the
thousand children whom have partly
instructed here will gather around me
and give me the honor ofduty faithfully
performed to them. This the brightest
crown to which mortal can aspire.
B. +. SAMPLE.