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Che We are compelled our condition five time Experience In return ior your Ban] depos. G' aranty, nam he B. C. MATTHEWS, Pi items 1, 2 and 3 of the will, with in structionS how to dispose of the pro perty. Item 13-Exempts the executor from iabilitv for loss to the estate by reason of errors in judgment or mistakes. Item 14-Authorizes the executor to expend such funds as may be re quired to keep the dwelling and farm at Fort Hill in good repair. The codicil is witnessed by R. M. Jenkins, C. W. Young and R. H. Mounce. The foegoing is an abstract of the leading features of the will of Col. Clemson, taken from the will itself, as copied for the use of the executor. We publish it as a matter of public interest to our readers, as it is to them and the people of the entire State in its beneficient and philan thropie bequests. No fitter or more enduring monument could be erected to the memory of John C. Calhoun, the greatest and purest statesman of America, than the foundation of a college on his old homestead for the training of the youth and future gen erations in the walks of the leading industries of the world-agriculture and mechanics. In this effort Col. Clemson has paid the highest tribute to Mr. Calhoun, and at the same time opened out a path to useful know ledg'e which will prove a perpetual remembrance of 'his generosity to wards the people of his adopted State. Estimated Value of the Bequests. The amount likely to accrue to the State for the college has been various ly estimated by conjecture. From a talk with Col. Simpson, who is a good lawyer and accountant, and who from his position as executor, has access to sources of ts'te information, we can speak with some degree of certainty. Col. Simpson informed us that the property, consisted largely of stocks and bonds of incorporations of this and other States and personal bonds well secured. Upon a rough estimate of the principal and interest on such investments and premiums now rated on same he felt satisfied the residuary fund for the college 9,ver and above the Fort Hill tract of land, and after the payment of specific leg acies and all expenses, would be $70, 000 or upwards. He said there was .a tract of land in Maryland, near the line of the District of Columbia, which had been negotiated for sale at $10,000, but sale not completed from some cloud on the title. If Col. Cemson owned t'his whole tract, which is likely true, the fund for the ollege would be $80,000; if he owned one-half interest in the land the fund would be $70,000 for the college over and above legacies and expenses. In either view the bequest is worthy of the cause and should be accepted and applied as directed in the will, and should be liberally supplemented by t~he State. 'From the length of this article we shall defer to a future issue the dis cussion of this new feature as bear ing on the agricultural college ques tion. but we promise to be no laggard in the good work. * ** * *** * THOMAS G. CLBMSON.* *By Col. R.L W. Simpson.* Mr. Editor: There seems to be so little known about the life and pur pose of Mr. Thomas G. Clemson in pnnection with the donation of his property to the State for the purpose f founding an industrial college. in stice to his memory and his purpose feel it to be my duty to state the ts and let the people judge. A short while before Mr. Calhoun's eath his friends in Charleston, see g his declining health, subscribed berally to purchase or charter a eht to send him on a cruise. think t.hereby to restore him to his usual or. Before this laudable purpose d be carre in eet, Mr. Cal artered b by law to swear to and s each year. We are th d National Bank (ing business we offer yo ely, plQnty of our own mi Natioi esident. houn died. I can not speak accurate ly of the amount subscribed, but ac cording to my recollection it was be tween $30,000 and $40,000. After his death it was agreed by his subscribers to this fund to apply it to the pay ment of Mr. Calhoun's debts. He was not a. rich man and largely in debt at the time of his death. This purpose was ca.ried into effect. Mr. Calhoun's debts were paid, and his children re leased their interest in 'his estate in favor of their mother, Mrs. Floride Calhoun, and her afflicted daughter, Miss Cornelia Calhoun. Subsequ-ently Mrs. Floride Calhoun sold Fort Hill plantation and the negroes, formerly the property of John C. CalhAun, to her son, Col. A. P. Calhoun, for the sum in round numbers of $40,000, for whieh he gave his bond and mortgage. Mrs. Floride Calhoun was the reside with her son, but there arose an un fortunat difficulty between the moth er and son, and Mrs. Calhoun pur chased a home in Pendleton and resid ed there to the time of her death, and it was there she had her friend and relative Mr. Armistead Burt, to write her will, in which she willed and de vised her Pendleton property to her grandsons, sons of William and John Calhoun, then deceased, and the bond and mortgage of A. P. Calhoun on the Fort Hill plantation, tihree-fourths thereof, to Mrs. Clemson, her daugh ter, and one-fourth to Mrs. Lee, her granddaughter, with the provision that if the bond and mortgage were given in exchange for the land, it was to go to Mrs. Clemson and her daugh ter, Mrs. Lee, in the same proportion. Some time after the close of the war and after the death of Mrs. Flo ride Calhoun and Col. A. P. Calhoun, Mrs. Clemson began proceedings to foreclose the mortgage on the For. Hill plantation. After a great deal of litigation, accounting, etc., the court ordered the plantation to be sold. Mr. Clemson attended the sale at Walhalla, and bid in the land (Fort Hill) for Mrs. Clemson and his daughter, Mrs. Lee, for the sg~m of $15,000, considered at the time the full value of the land. The cost and expenses of the litigation connected with t'his foreclosure proceedings, ow ing to the complicated questions in volved and the number of attorneys employed, amounted to $8,000. These costs and expenses, instead of being paid out of the proceeds of the sale of the land, were paid by Mr. Clem son out of his own private funds. Mr. and Mrs. Clemson resided at Fort Hill. After the death of their two' children, Mrs. Lee and Calhoun Clemson, they entered into an agree ment to make wills in each other's favor and the survivor was to devote their joint property to the State to found an industrial college. Mrs. Clemson having nothing to will but her three-fourths of the Fort Hill plantation, while Mr. Clemson had quite a sum of money which he had fortunately saved after the war. It was also a 'part of this agree ment that Mr. Clemson was to will out of his private property the sum of ten 'thousand dollars to th?ir grand daughter, the only surviving child of their daughter, Mrs. Lee, and their object in making this donation to their granddaughter was that they c'ouldl donate their property to the $tate free of any claim or eq'uitable riht that she. the granidehild. igiht have to thie For~t Hill plantation.. :I :he man tune the Fort Hill rlantation had been divided according o the terms of Mrs. Calhoun 's will, setting off three-fourths to Mrs. Clam on and one-fourth to Mrs. Lee or her dauhter. They hering agreed to do nate this three-fourths to the State, they considered the eight thousand dollas pa.id to his granddaughter, wich subsequently he increased to ifteen t:housand dollars. would be in disnutably the full value of the land. Mr Clemnson always considered that the For't ill plantation. or three fourths thereof, was legally and right flly his prpry as far as any claims that the C.alhouns might set up, .and therefore was his to d~o as he No. It iy the N Pu lish statements of oroughly examined by : Examiners u the very best form of oney in the business. ial Bai R. D. SMITH pleased with, he having paid $23,000 a therefor. e These facts are all matters of ree- ii ord except as to the agreement to e compensate their granddaughter, and, i let the Fort Hill plantation be freed p from any claim that might be set up f by the Calhouns or others thaL they, Mr. and Mrs. Clemson, were donating that which they did not have a moral right to donate. I was a witness to b these facts and to the purpose they had in view. There is, therefore, no foundation for the statement that Mr. Clemson had settled Calhoun's property to the State and then given his name to the, proposed institution. I wrote Mr. Clemson's will and I state positively that if any one is responsible for his name given to the college I am that one. Mr. Clemson wanted to give the name of Calhoun to the proposed in stitution, but I insisted that it should bear his name, because I knew of the transactions by which his grand daughter was to be compensated for the full value of the plantation and that which he was donating to the State was his individual property and Mr. Calhoun had nothing whatever to do with the property or the donation. But it was Mr. Clemson's purpose and desire to name the college Calhoun and no,t Clemson. . . I was his confidential attorney and managed all of Mr. Clemson 's affairs I for two years preceding his death. I ~ visited him once every week, and spent the day with him and he lived the life of a dignified, heart broken I hermit. During .his last sickness he talked to me about religion and asked 3 his friend and attending physician, i Dr. T. J. Pickens, to pray for him, ejd he asked me to bring a minister to see him, and I carried the Rev. 6 ,Mr. Cl'arkson to see him. fIe told I me that during the several e'onversa tions he had with Mr. Clemson he. confessed his faith in Christ and said that Christ was able to save as great Y a sinner as he was. It was Mr. t: Clarkson 's opinion that he was a con- f< ~verted and saved man. Mr. Clemson was a strong believer in Mr. Calhoun and his political doe trines. During the early part of the war, while residing at his home Weir the city of Washington, he was noti- i fled by a friend that he was to be ar-' rested next day on account of his sympathies for the south. Thereup on 'he and his son, Calhoun Clemson, escaped and that night crossed the Potomac river in a skiff and then walked to Richmond and tendered their services to President Davis. d Mr. Clemson was attached to the nitre and mining works in the department a of the trans-3Iississippi, and his son was given a cormission in the regulara army. Mr. Clemson served in the de parthent to which he was attachedi to the end of the war. He then came a to Pendleton and later to Fort Hill where he resided to the day of his deat.h. His daughter. Mrs. Lee, died in New York, and seventeen days there after his son, Calhoun Clemson, was killed in a railroad accident at Sene a, S. C. Not a great while after the death of their two children, Mrs. Clemson died suddenly. For ten years after the death of his wife and child ren Mr. Clemson lived a lonesome, desolate life and his death was o'ne of theC saddest scenies I ever witnessed. fn rmvn conversations with him he iphrsed me as one whoi thoroutchly unesto theC C(onditions in wichi the people were left by the results (of the war. Having graduated from the school of mines in Paris he was firmly1 impressed with the conviction that an industrial education would alone meet the conditions then existing and he was vitally interested in helping to establish such an institution for the i benefit of the rising generation.I R. W. Simpson. Pendleton, June 3. 1909. Homer Folks of New York City recently stated before the National 13 Association for the Study and Pre 344. 3tional I This entire Safety F cent. In placing an ac consideration. 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