OR, THE WORLD HAS CHANGED. 



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oaks near the academy pouring over his lessons. We now 

 introduce the wealthy cousin, who has also come to the Cal- 

 houn academy to be educated. He comes in a carriage, is 

 dressed in broad-cloth, and has money in his pockets to spend 

 as he likes, but withall a clever kind hearted, rollicking, friendly 

 and talented fellow, ready for fun or for a fight at the drop of 

 a hat, but with no incentive to self exertion, or self daniel. 



Time passes and the poor bby's means are about exhausted, 

 he must soon abandon his studies and return to his humble and 

 obscure home, to his old time daily toils. 



One day the rich cousin approaches where he sits under the 

 trees at his books, advises him to give up the foolish idea of 

 an education, to abandon an ambition so preposterous. He 

 said to get an education required money, that he had ah-eady 

 fooled away his steers ; to go back home and when he got hold 

 of another pair of steers to hold on to them; that it was not 

 his lot in life to have an education ; to be content to remain in 

 sight of his daddy's cow pen— that he could be happy there. 

 Said his own father was rich ; that the negroes were like black 

 birds in his father's fields; that he would have money to back 

 him ; he would go through the South Carolina college; that 

 his career would be onward, upward, excelsior, by-G-d, and 

 concluded by saying to the poor cousin, when I am thundering 

 in the halls of congress where the h-11 will you be. 



This was discouragement, but it did not discourage him. 

 The poor boy returned alone to his humble and obscure home; 

 but he had got a taste, he had learned to read, to write and 

 cypher, and plodded on as best he could for advancement, and 

 the rich cousin went to college, and here we draw the curtain 

 for a season. 



Nearly twenty years have passed, the scene now opens at 



