Robeson County NcArchives News.....Floral College 1841
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July 17, 1841 - Charleston Courier [Charleston SC] 1841
Article concerning Floral College, a college for women, located in Robeson 
County NC.

Fourth of July Toasts.  Celebration of the 4th at Floral College, July 3d, 1841.  
   General William Moultrie - He first taught Great Britain the important lesson 
that the South was determined to be free as well as the North.
   The Union of the States - May we ever cherish it as the foster mother of 
prosperity, happiness and protection.
   By the Vice President -Floral College, the pride of Robeson county:  May it 
ever prosper.
   By the Secretary-Floral College:  Able hands are at the helm of its affairs, 
and an open sea before it-May the prospering gales of public opinion waft it 
safely and speedily on its course.
   By Capt. John McNeill-May the graduates of Flora College be many, and may it 
furnish wives for a whole country.
   By John Purcell, Jr. Esq.-North Carolina Floral College:  With the aid of 
Massachusetts, may it onward march, come forth and rival any other institution 
of the kind, situated as it is between two sister States which heretofore have 
looked on her with condescension, though without foundation.
   By Wm. A. Nelson -Floral College:  May this brilliant institution, with its 
equally brilliant Caroline-a that Massachusetts has sent to its aid, spread 
unbounded knowledge over our country, and its most liberal and gallant 
stockholders receive, with enthusiastic demonstration of gratitude, the eulogium 
and patronage they so deservedly merit.
   By James M. N. Baker - Floral College:  Its origin brilliant, and its 
progress shall be onward and upward, until, comet like, it shall catch the gaze 
and admiration of other climes.
   By A. S. Baker - This is the beginning of better times-literature is in the 
ascendant-and may Hymen follow in its wake, to narrow down the ranks of the 
bachelors.
   By Duncan McCallum-The Land of the Sleep:  She has waked from her slumbers, 
and may she rise like a Lion in his strength, to grapple with the demons of 
darkness.
   By Archibald Purcell-If South Carolina can boast of the victory of Fort 
Moultrie, and still wears, fresh and unfaded, the laurels of King's Mountain, 
and other fields of deathless fame, to North Carolina alone belongs the high and 
signal honor of having originated the Declaration of American Independence.
   By Duncan Baker, Esq.-The Ladies:  The only antirepublicans that I like; they 
never consent that all men are equal, neither will they agree that any should be 
free.
   By Arch'd T. McEachern-Floral College:  This is emphatically a garden of 
flowers, where perpetual Spring abideth.
   By A. McGirt-The Fair Sex:  The treasures of the deep are not so precious as 
are the concealed comforts of man, locked up in the juvenile bosom.
   By the Orator, (Mr. John Gilchrist, Sen.)-The Union of the State:  May it be 
as durable as the everlasting hills.

[A. McGirt is likely Archibald "Baldy" McGirt III, son of Duncan McGirt and 
Elizabeth McLean (born 1818, would be 23yo and single-He married the first time 
in December 1841) but could also have been his uncle, Archibald McGirt II (born 
~1795 and would be 46yo-married with 8 children).  They were the only "A. 
McGirts" in  Robeson County NC old enough to give a toast in 1841.  It was quite 
an interesting toast and was based on a quote from Thomas Middleton, the English 
dramatist.]


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