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MESSENGER, Easley, S. C.
[For The Messenger.
Ediucation. and The Free School Sys
System In South Cerolina.
Mit EnlrIxoR: As you have solicited
correspondente to your most invalua- I
ble and worthy paper, I have there- I
fore concluded to giVe 3 on dd the
public a few of my views on the sub
je'dt of Ediktioti and the Free School i
system in Sotith Carolina, which sub- i
ject 1 thing does not receive the atten- 1
tion of the press and public it should, 1
as it is one of the greatest of all sub- 1
jects, and in view gf that fatct It should 1
regelve as niuch.or more of our atten
tion than any .other. Let us first no-.
tice the grand and noblo, intent of the
Free School system in out State, and
the high alm-and philanthropic prhici
ples on which it is. founded. In my
judgement it Is -one of the most Judo.
clous laws that was ever enacted In A
merica. Its intent is to educate the
risig generations and by so doing qual
ify and nake, useful citizens out of
them, over which depends the future
destinies of this country,elher for good
or evil. Now, in order that. they may
advance: and build up these high and
enviable institutions of ours that we
have lived under and grew to be such
a grand and significant satelite among
the grand constelations of nations,
Now by~ view of the grand responsibility
that they may be preparedl to meet all
the cares incident to them in assuming
the high and enviable trust that will in
the near future have to answer, we
must educate them, it is a duty we owe
them, and it is something they have a
right to exact of us, both in a moral
and legal poiut of view. Now if we
fail to do this we will be held account
able before God and generations yet
unborn, anid our names will descend
into future ages as being crimnals of
blackest.dye. Let us take a view of
the .ence colossai powers of Greece and
Rome, with their profound sages, phi
losophers, orators and statesmen, and
their magnifientt palaces, and .the
sway of whose powers entwined the
worl and suibjugated. It. ,No~w was It
knowledge that give those people so
much sway and power o~a theresidue
of the world, and that has caused their
names to transcendl through many-dark
and. perplexing ages .of the' world1
down to the present .time, with as
much instre and glory- as they once
possensed Nrow that our namema
ro down to inture agesalke, we e
lo a thing thAt will be more instrumen
al in achieving such for us long af
er our bodies have been .decompose<
U their mother earth, than by educa
ing the generations. Now to achlev<
his grand end every one that has thi
cast conception of these facts shoulh
lo every thing in their power toadvnc<
nd build up this dowli-trodden causi
>f education, upon which depends th<
>Wetpettuity of these American histitu
lons of ours which has doie so niuel
or the world and for religion, sobrie
y and itegrity.
Last, but not least, so npchk for lib1
rties and prlvilliges which has beet
o instrumental in rende'iing this,. ou
,lorious country, one of the greates
ountrics on the globe, and wher
vith Its present glorious commoi
chool system the humblest citizen caI
)Cctpy the highest office inl the gift
is Goverwnment; Still with all thes
acts, and hundreds of others, ther
re sone that seem to be opposed t
Kdueation and the Free School system
Vo all such persons I woild say tha
he mistake is with them and not wiLl
he Free School system.
I will admit that the common Seh >
'pstem has rather been depended o
oo much as the sole means of educa
Ing the youths of our country, an
hereby rendered rather pernicious t
,hat class. But I can sc daily th1
hey are beginning to see the pom
hat it will riot do io depend solely o
t to educate their children. It is fA
.9o inadequate to accomplisk so gran
i work, and they are only adopthig
is a basis on which to' found our te
mnonthe schools. And in my judg
ment it it one of the best school bast
)r educational basis In the world. J
,as been the meians of placing maniy
poor and destitute boy and girl in hig
ind enviable positions in btisiness anl
aoeiety. Iln fact it is doing one of th
randest works on earth. So let t
ill do everything in our power to pre.
'his grand cause until there will nC
>e oie youth in this broad land of oim
.hat GodIhas blessed is so copious!
with, by casting. our lots here, bi
what will or can possess, if not a cla:
dec education, a p~ractical one. An
when this grandl object is achieved the
we are llkely to have a coumty morie fre
from crime, mntemperance, dissipatior
poverty and rusin, for Daniel Webst(
said. in one of his venerable ex pressiont
'that there was nothing that woul
[end to the advancing and building ti
c~f the Ameriean institutions more tha
,he educating of. the rising geniers
Aons." So in the view ->f all these fact
Let every lover of knowledge, and 01
ry father and mother unite In th
trandl work in educating those wh
~eem tQ disregard that .that. Qoncerm
~he welfare of their dear ones, a
much, up to the point of their duti(
to-wardl their children And that ia
luty they owe to themi as muchl so a
it is to feed and clothe them. It
uint il then that there will be. a genera
hifrussioni of knowle'dge. It is to' b
loped that the (lays of ignorance ar
a umubered (in Pickens county; nud tha
;here will be a school at every eros
rond ltke ydifrsaht Eksley, kind the en
it PickensOC. HI.
Niew Cohrmsa.
t [Forthe essatger..
The CerksuAs Aain.
EDITOR OF M ssM.-itat. I will
give a fe* tbord points froiM the
Censis return of 15800 pTlieNtu at'e
484 Townships in tho State. ''
cueville is 325th in population,
and 24th in corn prodriction ; lEs
ley 25th ; in all grain (itcludig
rice) Easley is 60th, DAusville
a 61st. Only one Township in the
- State grows over 100,000 bushes
corn, wheat and oats, that one is
- in Spartanburg county, and has a
. population of 4,400. Four raises
t over 100,000 bitshels rice; one of
i these in Beaufort reports' 285,000
I bushels. Twenty-seven in the state
report one bale of cotton or over
for each in habitant; 7 of these ate
in Marlboro. No Township grows
D 60,000 bushels grain (out side the
. rice region) with 1,700 people, ex
t cept Dacusville. Though Saluada
in Greenville, reportd 78,000 witl
1,939 people, and 300 bales of cot
ton. One in Aiken with 1,80(
" people grows 68,000' bushels o
d grain and 1,900 bale* of cotton,
o Pumpkintown reportsabout 33,00(
t bushols grain and 88 bales cotton t(
it 840 people. Old Dacusville is higi
up toward the top of the list %ol
productive Townships, and doe
wonderfully,consideri ing one-tliir
of her 'territory is uninhabitabl4
hills and hollows.
Is When we can double our pro
duction we may feel independen1
of the 'gaunt wolf' hunger.
d We should renenber that a re
e port from one crop, does i)ot al
s ways give the true standing of th<
is various sections of the State it
ot point of productiveness, by reasox
of partial drouths, freshets an(
storms.
The Pickens correspondent say~
d 'let cotton and corn dry up.' Yoa
ni may say to him they have dried ii
0 some 384 Trownships in the State
a, and are rnot -"dinmnition" wet ii
'the other hundred.
s,
d ... ,-SUBsCRIBER.
p .N. B. I ought to ha~ve said the;
n were always dry in 384 or there
about, and are now dry in all. I
h e doubts it, let him travel a littl
ethrough the county ; or advertis
o rnoney to loan, or provisions fo
8 sale on timne.' S.
~ -Every man could, .have a wit
a if hie only maiden.effort.. But a las
he won't.
- R. D. GARRETT,
Watch Maker and Jeweler
e Main St.',G eetivllle, S.'C.
,t Watches, Jewelry,&e., Repaired a
Reas~nable prices-Work Gusrariteed
SWatledk and Chains Replated witl
6 001(d or Silver. --:. -
A nice 14ue poi Chdstmas Present
on hand, and at lowest rates.
Dec 21-tf
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