The South Carolina College [pp. 572-582]

THE SOUtTH CARtOLINA COLLEGV,.
his own gore, like veriest beast of burden, and when at last too old to
be driven more, and useless, we are represented as, with cold-blooded
and devilish barbarity, knocking out his brains.
ART, VI. —THE SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE.
WE promised in a recent issue to make very full examination of
the able work of Dr. Laborde, which gives the history of the South
Carolina College, from the earliest periods to the present time. It
is a valuable service rendered to the public when our men of letters
employ themselves in bringing to light all the facts connected with
the great literary institutions of the country, and we hope to see this
example of Dr. Laborde, followed by others. A connected work,
which shall give the history of all of our Southern [olleges, is particularly to be desired just now, with the view of comparing their several excellences, and of stimulating proper emulation among them.
The work before us is a very good beginning. It is full of material
and traces the progress of the colleges through many trials and much
discouragement. It gives the names and services of all the professors, the annual catalogue of. students, the lists of honors conferred,
the range of studies pursued, etc., etc., and deserves to be in the
hands of every student and alumnus.
The early settlers of South Carolina placed a proper estimation
upon the importance of education, and a public library was instituted
earlier than 1698. In 1710, an act was passed to found a free school,
and very high qualifications were fixed for the teachers. In 1723,
Air. Morrit made proposals for a college. A project for a college to
be founded by the State was drawn up in the time of Governor Bull,
it is supposed by John Rutledge, as it has been recently found in his
handwriting. This college was to have been located at Charleston.
In 1785, an act was passed establishing colleges at Winnsborough,
Charleston and Ninety-Six. The first two have been long in successful existence, but the last proved to be a failure. In 1795, the
Beaufort College was endowed. In 1797, the College of Alexandria
was incorporated in Pinckney district.* In 1801, Governor Dayton
A recent writer in the Georgetown (8. C.) Times, makes the following notice of the colleges of South Ca olina. We omit, but thank the author, whoever he is, for his most kind
and complimentary references to ourself.-Editor.
[The printer, in the absence of the Editor, takes the liberty of inserting the passage erased
by him, believing that compliments of this kind are not so abundant in life'as to be thrown
away by a mere dash of the pen. The extract, therefore, appears in full.-Printer.]
"THU COLLEGES OF SOUTHt CAROLINA-There are six colleges in the State that confer degrees. The Collegiate Institute. at Wininsborough,a most excellent institution, is not, strictly
speaking, a college. The Cokesbury Institute, in Abbeville district, and the Beaufort College are both good high schools.
The College at Columbia, the alma mater of Harper, and Evans, and Butler, of MeDuffie
and Legar6-tie Demosthenes and the Cicero of the Palmetto State-the fostering mother o.
O'Neall, Memminger, Thornwell, Whitefoord Smith, and a host of distinguished names, too
many to be mentioned, the noble old State College stands, of course, first. The Hon. and