Petition, SC, York, 1832 College

South Carolina ]
York District ]

At a court of general sessions being Holden at York Court house fall term
1823.

We the Grand Jury present in a grievance the resent decline of our college
establishments at Columbia we think the institutions nurtured by the state
could not be on the decline if the immediate officers of the institution were
free from censure. That it is evidently not as flourishing as when under the
care Dr. Maxey [Jonathon Maxey] cannot be desired, and is it not strange that
as the world grows older men should become less, regardless of literature.
This court believes but for the present government of the college is not such
as to ensure its future prosperity - certainly a subject of vast importance to
the good people of this state.

The grand jury would beg leave to state that they believe that many of the
people of the state refuse to give their children collegiate education because
they fear their religious & moral principles would be in danger of corruption
this objection really exists to ones college is it not worthy the attention of
the legislature, surely it is and we recommend to that body full investigation
of the subject and if necessary to remonet [repeated warning] of those gnomon
[who know] from whom such fears arise.

The grand jury are desirous of dealing plainly we therefore say that Doctor
Cooper the president of the college is at this time remarkably unpopular many
are the objections made against him. Let his abilities be what they may, the
public cry is such that many persons object to educating their children under
his direction by which means we find the number of students greatly diminished
from what it originally was. Whether their objection are ill founded or not
to the people they are the same because they have these effects which is a
destruction of the college.

We therefore recommend an investigation of this subject by the legislature and
we hope if it is necessary that.

A true copy from the minutes October Term 1823

JOHN HENRY C C                SAMUEL HENDERSON
JOHN THOMPSON, FOREMAN        HUGH MCWHORTER
SOLOMAN HILL                  EDMUND ACOCK
AUGUSTUS BRIANT [BRYANT]      NATHANIEL GIVENS
JOHN BARNES                   JOHN STEELE
WILLIAM CLARK                 RESIN WOOD
PHILIP WILLIAMS




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