New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-05

Hayward family who also received their freedom.
but many OF my friends were slaves especa,yA me ne
Keep away from altogether or forfeit my schoo'-
nS E;ea,nas. ,s ,oe tovoo,e to the management in
this colored college. and 1t Is the boast of the
matron, a comely black woman of middle age. that
visitors welcome 10 her dormltores at any time
In the day even before the beds ana appliances
set 10 rights in the morning, that they may
thing Is Kept The Young women who occupy these
OF housekeeping and culinary art, sewing ana the
simpler forms OF dressmakng. As many OF them
are recruited from the plantations throughout ne
State, accustomed 10 only the meagTe CABIN eNlst-
ence, they have much 10 learn. and the matron
and her staff have to begin from the ground up IN
Graduating deep-roOted customs aud intoxicating
better ideas; but these girls make u fair showing
offer opposition 10 their teachers
wanting TO better themselves. ana seize on the
chance for year or two OF schooling inc v onhg
schools; ana get some chance TO exc out MI rA
penses by doing work about The place Chemistry.
electricity. geometry and political economy are some
OF the higher branches taught TO the huVanceu
pupils, but pains are taken hat those who enter
fectly taught country schools shall have oppOrtu-
nifty to right themselves In the rudimen'afy
The college buildings, though roomy and well
designed. are AL OF wood, ne beiits ~" economiral
grounds are neatly laid out and the farm lands
so well cultivated that the spot looks cneeriu nnd
floors and inlald and wainscotted corridors the IN
wou n seen pare sT hi me menareent
has made up for this deficiency by nstitutng clean
illness and order as main attractions Everything
about the place IL for
a high white board fence runs straight mp and
down between the premises of the Clahin Cniyer-
sity for Coorei Students and the new college
grounds that the state has turned over TO me
leges and the respective faculties are as separate
In thought and feeling as that board fence Is hieh.
a stately private seminary for young white woman.
naturally rescnts the taking away OF ne state
grounds and State funds and the convenient ma
chlnery and appliances that FOR 50 many years con-
duced TO her prosperity me rvai preSaheS hn
meet. and the older college. from us Vantase
ground Of he'ter equipment and endowment Is IN
clined 10 look down on IN" npstart lhsutu,l"n ~
has grown IKE mushroom right IN s'Ent o. s "S
Of the uproarious revvals that are ned on non.
days and Sundays within that INSTITUTION ana sIY
novs them and that this education Of the emotions
freely INDUCED In by their Methodist neiShDors Is
10 be decried and amentod.
HOW THE LEGISLATURE WAS WON.
President Miller gives an interesting account Of
the manner in which he won his way with the
LEGISLATURE in securing this college for his race.
Ever since the he has been In politics. and has
Influenced a considerable vote for such State meas
ures as no chose to favor. In carpet baggng days
the South Carolina College IN Columbia was prac-
tirallv closed white students because II WAS
available for negroes under existing CONDITIONS ana
the white mems sons preferred TO ioftEo u' D'r"
fits OF the college rather than attend IN company
with negroes Later the white friends o, we b
lege concocted scheme 10 smut me uoo'S Oh ~
institution altogether for session OF tWomine De,,
opening n Tor white students Only "it nv
chance served. Thomas Miller then l"Slslaior
o. Influence carrying two or tire" other votes IN
his rocket although politically opposed to his Wh'e
friends aided them To carry through the scheme
only stlpuating at the time that they should III
turn help him some day to get a college ior MS
own race. This the white leaders PROMISED 10 90
as long back 1S76. and the action Of The iTgls-
lature in giving Miller control Of the state College
and making 1t possible for such college 10 exist
Is the direct though long deferred result OF tha'
promise ,,.
or ntermixture OF the races In any sense whateVer
lie holds that the negro can advance waterway
and educauonally and have business and pubic
dealings with his white neighbors without lnirinR
ing on their formulas for social regulations in any
wav In this respect the new state College is IN
marked contrast 10 it's neighbOr the denominations
college for in that institution social equality mas
alwnvs been inculcated both by prec"pt ana ek-
annie The negro students of both sexes inter-
mingie freely with the families % the white pro,
feesors and such friends may visit them. ana al
the sports and college games, musical fnctlonS ana
theatrical exhibitions are shared alike ny polh
races The high board fence that marks the
dividing line between the two colored colleges
marks also the teaching Of very different opinions
with the doctrines OF Mr. Miller,s college IN far
better favor with the townspeople who look on
from without the gates