The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-11-06

the couplet:
With VT sss sSs s5ssd is SsFs fas essns ssf1s fire.
And dip our pens lightning"
There is no more potent factor in South Carolina for
bringing about this advancement in education than the
South Carolina College, and quote the following from
a message of Governor Hammond to the General Assem-
bly, touching this subject
The first duty of government after providing for the
necessities of its constituents to take proper measures
for their education.
The benefits they derive from facilitating commerce,
by digging canals clearing out rivers, constructing roads
and opening channels of intercourse great, but
they sink into insignfcance comparison with the i'm
portance of pouring out upon them every direction
pous streams of knowledge, expanding their ntellecs ell
evating and purifying their morals and training them up
a high and noble caste of thought
ssUnder government like ours where aristocracy
tolerated take root the only hope we can
have of the homogeneous action lasting duration of
Institutions is by resting them the solid foundation OF
a people mbed with lofty sentiments and deeply versed
all the lore of learning who will be capable of compre
hending all the blessings they confer wachfu of distant
danger and prompt to meet and it, not less by
power of intellect, than by force of arms
Every dollar which be spared from the absolute
wants the State should be first offered to this great
cause Here indeed liberal expenditure enrches, while
"a economy mpoverishes and degrades "
Another error on the part of some which like
wise desire call attention is in supposng that the
amount annually appropriated is lost to the State except
as she may derive benefit from the education of her
youth.
1t may well be questioned whether the State would not
lose more in dollars and cents by failing to make the ap
preparation than the amount thereof.
The money which the students spend here, would in
great part be expended other colleges and the students
at the college, who do live within the State of
would not come here to spend their money.
If do not sustain college within State, where
the students have the finest advantage for educaon
we may expect them to 60 elsewhere to be educated.
Many of them, perhaps, would be influenced to make
their homes elsewhere and this would certainly be loss
to the State
If our State does present college advantages equal
to those of other States will have to depend in a
upon the scientific knowledge of outsiders to de-
veop our resources and much of wealth may be
ried to other lands.
The following extract from an address OF COL b w.
Troti, delivered before the war, is in point:
The State annually spends fifteen twenty
thousand dollars on the College, This amount laid out
in the State employs labor in the State and forever
mains in the State In addition to this, the College brings
come, and who spend their money here in acquiring an
education. Suppose had College at all these two
hundred young men, at College in Columbia, would
go of the State receive educaton and carry win
them some ninety thousand dollars annually to pay for it.
considerable figure the wrong side OF an
The economy which would withhold few thousand dollars
ninety thousand entirely of to return rather sub
ects itself to mputaon of being penny wise and
pound foolish Nor anything be more erroneous than
that Colleges only benefit those who are educated at them
Education does much promote the general prosperity OF
country and however poor man may be- ne IS more or
less benefited by the prosperity around him. Every man
interested in the preservation of ORDER and education pro-
notes that But above ALL we'll educated man is more
less teacher and influence on others some
times for evil true but much oftener for good 1t his
knowledge which enables him to defend the rights OF the
injured or heal the diseases of the suffering his science
which points out the of the State is his learn
ing which aids his divine mission the glorious work OF gos
pei peace.
There never was time within the history of our country
when so many grave problems confronted the American
people, demanding solution, and requiring for such solu
ton the ables talent and highest intellectual training
We see a disposition at times to defy law and order
Education tends to check this lawess spirit, which sooner
or later gets its just reward The great necessity for OBJ
serving the laws is beautifully illustrated by Lord Bacon
in his Novum Organum who says:
s.The merit of learning in remedying the nconven-
fences arising from to man, is not much inferior 10
that of relieving human necessities This merit Vel
ly described by the ancients in the fiction of Orpheus
theatre where all the beasts and birds assembled and tor
getting their several appetes stood socially together lis
tening to the harp whose sound sooner ceased or