The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-21

1876
In 1876 Wade Hampton wa
chosen to lead. the people tt
the rescue of the State from thu
hands of the alien and the formel
slave. By united effort and By
the invincible determination o:
valorous ex-soldiers and their sons
the State again came under the rule
of the white man in 1877. This re-
stored the Government almost exclu'
Isively to the former ruling class.
1892
In 1892 dissatisfaction among the
people had become general, and un'
der the leadership of B. r.. Tillmar
the party in power was OverthroWn
when "the people" elected their owr
chosen representatives to all the Of
fees. The plan of nominating OH
GERS by convention having been abol
ished and the primary election hav'
ing been substituted.
1910
In 1910 the people are in their nor
NAL condition. Happy in their pol
itical freedom and contented with the
Government, while every effort il
being made to promote individual.
prosperity, education, morals and re-
iigious thought. All opposition tx
public education having disappeared
schools and colleges flourish as they
never hourished before. And
Now is the winter Of our discomfort
Made glorious summer by Ia glorious tri
umphl,
And all the clouds that lowered upon oul
house
In the deep bosom Of the ocean buried:
Now are our brows bound with victorious
wreaths,
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments
Our stern alarums changed to merry meet
Our dreadful marches to delightful meas
ureS.
DUE WEST THE CENTER OF PROS
PERITY.
Let US make Due West a center
from which we may look around fol
ltriumphs in peace. In the 1fties
that town consisted of only a few
families. The college was e. small
structure. Lindsay Hall was a plain
building of huge proportions. The
Society Falls were then thought 0
be models of architectural beauty and
mechanical skill. Only about sixty
or seventy students were in atten.
dance. The college languished. And
today, sad to relate, the ~professorsar are
lon short rations, because of the
smallness of their salaries.
Instead of the little u~npretentious
academy for boys and girls, magnif'
cent imposing buildings have been
erected for the students in the WON
ans College. Dormitories as fine, as
large, and as we'll suited as any dor
mitories that can be found in the state
now stand beside each of the college:
at Due West. =.
Except for the glorious peaceful
triumphs of the descendants of tbs
Confederate soldier whence c)me
these two hundred girls who with
their grace and their beauty fill tn
classrOoms of the Woman's College:
Did the two hundred men Whc
went to battle from this little town
ever see in its classic groves tWl
hundred such specimens OF splendid
young manhood as now crowd tbs
halls of Erskine?
These splendid results in the
growth of the town and in the In
creased usefulness of the college;
come not alone from the prosperity Y
the country. They come because the
people of the town have moved Oh tt
a higher plane of broader citizenship
And, because of the colleges hav
ing adopted more. modern method
they are drawing to their class roOm
the greatest number of students.
NO PRETTY YOUNG GIRL SHOULD
GO INTO THE sLUMs OF AN,
COUNTRY.
The best and the sweetest Christian
igirls in all this land, go out from tn
Womans College to take the plac
which their Creator himself ha(
assigned to them. And that assign
ment, as you all certainly know
is, that each one should becom'
the wife of a good man. And if
good man is not in evidence, thel
she might, in the hope of bette
things, take one of the other sort
No good young woman has an,
right to dodge the duty of becoming
q wife and a mother. 1t is a foolish
notion that she can 60 into the filth
and degradation of a foreign country
and serve her Master more acceptably
than she can by assuming the duty
which He himself has laid upon her
While no pretty Christian girl should
20 off as a missionary, yet it is posi-
Bile and permissible that unreason
ably ugly girls and women well pas
forty, might safely go off to places OF
temptation to labor in the sluns 0,
a foreign country.
Do you believe there is in hell 6
place hot enough to properly punish
the man who would knowingly SEND
off a pure Christian girl to places Of
degradation:
ERSKINE COLLEGE.
T C1. IT, $1,000