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sound and healthful culture, fitted by his training for any one of 

 the departments of industry, known to a high order of civilization. 

 These institutions, having all the rigorous forms of discipline \vith 

 perhaps less elaborate study of the sciences than the Academy of 

 France, or our own National Academy, at West Point, would give 

 us such a nation of laborers as the world never saw before. 



The idea that labor need not be intelligent, that it Avorks better 

 by being debased to the condition of brute force, is a relic of bar- 

 barism, and forms no part of that code of modern philosophy, which 

 seeks to elevate labor and dignify and christianize the laborer. 

 Under the dullest brain and the most facile hand Louisiana rears 

 her crops of sugar, sends them for refinement to New York and 

 Boston, where the intelhgent mechanic, educated in the science of 

 chemistry, changes them into a more merchantable commodity, and 

 then the aristocratic planter purchases the same article for home 

 consumption. 



The labor of Louisiana is not intelligent, well directed, but the 

 lowest of all forms of industry, — mere brute labor. 



The cotton growing states raise an annual crop of cotton, worth 

 about $150,000,000. This furnishes an important item in our for- 

 eign exchanges, besides retaining in the country a large amount to 

 be wx'ought into fabrics by the labor of New England. Massachu- 

 setts employs twenty-eight and one-half millions of dollars in the 

 manufacture of cotton alone, while South Carolina has in a simi- 

 lar investment a little less than one million of dollars. 



Gov. Adams of the latter State, proposes the establishment of 

 free schools as an uncertain experiment. Massachusetts goes to her 

 free schools and selects her last Governor and her Senator for the 

 Senate of the United States. One has faith in man, and holds to 

 the old fashioned and homely creed of the inalienable rights of all 

 men ; the other thinks the Declaration of Independence a fanati- 

 cal document, well enough for those fanatical patriots of the revo- 

 lution, such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick 

 Henry, but quite too full of " glittering and sounding generalities" 

 for those modern statesmen who hold labor to be the " mud-sill of 

 society." 



On these controverted points we will not lose our temper, but 

 only hope that one day South Carolina will become as wise as Mas- 

 sachusetts. 



