The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-01-11
SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE ].
LUMINOUS IN ACHIEVEMENT.
MFR. Vim. A. Barber Of New York Presents Some Facts
Of Interest In Connection With the
Colleges History.
Colleges History.

| SSllCSO
Following is the address delivered
last night at TIE State house by Mr..
VIM. a. Barber of New York gradu-
ate of the class of 1889 at the South
| Carolina college and subsequently at
4 torney general or the State OF South
| Carolina:
can not proceed without first ex-
pressing to my fellow members of the
Clariosophic society my keen apprecia-
ton OF the invitation which calls me
| from the busy scenes Of professional
life in distant city to participate in
| these pleasant exercises.
| TO those bearing close relation to the
! South Carolina college, whether as
| trustees, members OF the faculty, stu
dents or alumni. this celebra ton is OF
peculiar interest To the trustees, It is
an inspiring reminder that they are
the successors In trust OF John Dray-
ton, Charles c. Pinckney. Henry w.
DeSaussure. the first Wade Hampton
| and their associates on the board under
whose direction the college was opened.
| Upon members OF the faculty, It must
impress an ennobling sense of the re-
| sponsibillty OF those who sit In the
places of Jonathan Make, and Enoch
| Hanford. To her foster sons, 1t brings
memories Of tender associations in the
| W
| er on her centennial birthday to lay
garlands Of affection in the lap of our
| alma mater.
But the occasion has broader and
more general Significance 1t COM
memorates the laying Of the cornef-
stone in system Of Intelligent public
instruction through which the State be-
came power for the upbuilding Of her
people.
Origin and Founding Of the College,
/ ~ n fhx. ~fpS, ,f 1T,
q little more than q century, we see
South Carolina divided into two dis
tinct sections, socially and politically
antagonistic.
J In the lower country. the English
along the seacoast, the French Protest
testants on the -Edisto, the Irish in
| williamsburg and the Swiss on the
Savannah had in three generations
been moulded into one people. united
| In purpose and harmonious In SYM
pathy. Their planters had become veal
thy; their merchants were prosperous:
their homes were refined and their chill
dren were educated. Many Of their sons
had graduated from the leading uni
versities Of Europe and the colleges Of
| the north,
| Tne upper country, now the pride of
the state, boasted no such attanments.
While lower Carolina was enjoying its
first century Of civilization. the wood
clad hills and fertile valleys OF the up
| per country remained the hahitation
and hunting ground Of the Cherokees
and. and Catawbas: Save for few
settlement Of the region north of
Columbia did not begin until about
| 1850. But in the years Immediately
following. TIC influx Of settlers was
great and population rapidly Increased.
From the southwark a colony Of HUI
guenots moved into the western section,
while into all upper. Carolina poured
trains Of immigrants, chiefly Scotch
Irish, but including some Quakers and
Germans moving from the north. Each
ngious views. disagreeing among them
selves. and all hostile to the views of
| the people In the lower section.
10 assimiiate all these different and
dinering elements into. a homogeneous
citizenship was the most serious prob
lem of that day. Sagacious statesmen
saw that not only the progress, but the
very safety Of the State, depended up
on educating and unifying the peo-
pie. The first effort In this, direction
i colleges. one at ,Charleston, one at
Cambridge, and one at Winnsboro OF
! these, the first two signally failed and
the progress made by the third scarce-
~ justified its existence. But the re-
suit proved the futiiity OF several sepa-
rate institutions and suggested the
necessity, Of one central college, to be
controlled and supported by the State
1 where young men, from every section
and Of every creed should be taught
\ patriotism and drown their differences
IN q fount OF common knowledge.
In 1901, Gov. John Drayton urged up.
on the legislature the establishment oi
such a college at Columbia. Chance1.
ior5 5DeSaussure, then member OF the