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[poll TIIK SOUTHERN TRIBUNE ]
THOUGHTS OF THE UP-COUNTRY,
FROM A VISIT TO MACON, MAY 1, 1850.
RY D. rOSTF.I.L.
It is no fiction of a poet’s brain,
Flowing, it may be, in a frenzi’d strain.
Ti lling of mountain airs, with life replete ;
Os hi 11 stream’s murmuriiigs—of odours sweet—
Os glorious sunset —of effulgent morn,
Welcom’d to eye, oar, heart, by echo’d horn ;
Os song of boatman—his heart fill’d halloo,
As something, smiio one, prompts him, conies in
view ;
Where sounds are answer’d o’er and o’er again
By echo, ullTing her enchanting strain.
It is not ail—not only fancy’s dream,
That health is in each wind, each crystal stream;
Roses there bloom, and have their rivals there,
In many a cheek, most eloquently fair !
Dew drops engein them from a starry sky ;
But what so brilliant as a soul-lit eye ?
Health in ascendant, makes the heart beat free ;
Thoughts come enliv’ning ; few despondinglv.
Love in such region is not fancied love ;
All sordid thoughts, it must be far above :
Love springs spontaneous from prolific life, —
Articulate, and in the bosom rile !
Metbinksto wander in those green fring’d glades
Where leaning hill trees ‘throw their cooling
shades,
With one pure angel, though ofeartli-born form,
In heart and spirit gentli), but yet warm,
Heaven’s own sanctity must fill the breast,
And man can feel awhile, supremely blest.
Oh true ! no spot of earth is free from care ;
But yet 1 dreamt it must be lighter there 1
There was a freshness, blent witli nature’s grace
Around each form I saw —upon each face ;
The greetings tltero receii and all doubts o’ercame,
And stead ofpolish’d couriesy,lhe flame
Os friendship shone—perhaps the fire of love,
Did some long slumb’ring, tranquil feelings
move !
For like Vesuvius, dormant, yet alive
Within the breast, a flame may quick revive,
And burn as fiercely as it ever did,
Though for a time by perverse causes hid !
It may be I but dreamt ! but dreams like these,
Do, for a season, though a short one, please :
And it by this W e may some griefs allay,
I-et us all dream once thus—hut once a day.
political.
/ rom the Richmond Examiner.
Letter from lion. Jamt-if A. seddou.
Hie Richmond Republican is essential
> mistaken when it supposes that the
"Compromise will in the end secure the
support of the Southern Democracy” in
"tigtess. Ihe distinguished Represen
•Hive from this Congressional District, in
‘P following letter, assumes a position
w ntch vve know to be that of this collea-
S'Jos from Virginia, wi h the exception of
,lu or tu , » members of the House of Ren
sseii atives. 1 hat these gentlemen would
' use to surrender, together with their
:is Southern citizens, the principles
"h l .'“'c' eV . e, y 01,0 advocated during the
tli .i'.i l * ,e ‘ r existence as politicians, and
,1 I 'r ou, ‘l rc htse to make their State
u b i..f that insulting mockery which
THE SOUTHERM TRIBUNE.
NEW SERIES —VOLUME 11.
Federalists and Free Soilers have concoc- I
ted for the South, —we felt assured long !
before any inlimationsof the fact had leach
ed us from themselves. Without setting
their faces against the whole course of
their lives ; without the abandonment of
every particle of self respect, every emo
tion of patriotism, and the last shadow of
personal and political consistency, these
gentlemen cannot do otherwise than resist
that ignominious measure. The weak
and the timid will urge them to close with
the offer of the North, on the ground that
organization is impossible at the South,and
consequently, efficient resistance to further
pretensions. But even supposing these
ideas correct; is out impotence for efficient
resistence a sound or manly reason why
we should desert principle, abandon honor,
and choose the part of paltroons subdued
iby tear, instead of men overpowered by
physical force?—sit ourselves down as
i lawful slaves lather than as prisoners of
I war ? I hieves sometimes overcome and
| bind the honest man; that alone does
not diminish his title to respect. But
when from the imbecility of terror, he
makes a g atuitous surrender, not only of
the purse that is in his pocket, but of It is
house and lands at home, he approves him
self destitute of manliness. So also wi 1
the Hep esenta ives of lie Southern peo
ple, if they surrender at discretion, as they
wdll do when they help through this Cora
promise, because they feel impotent to
prevent its passage over their protesting
votes. The Compromise maybe the best
thing they can get; hut il is certainly the
worst thing the North can give. We can
lose nothing therefore, by following the
path which courage and consistency point
out, and by resisting to the last; like men,
even though resistance be inefficient; w hile
hy that course, we preserve our dignity
and oui p sition intact, and keep still the
right of resistance when resistance will he
worth more. But when we ‘'close with
this offer,” and pocket with a cheerful
face this most grievous insult, we adver
tise outselves as the football of the North.
Washington, May22J, 1850.
To the Editors of the Examiner :
I cannot forbear from expressing to you
cordially and warmly, my acknowledg
ments for the aide and manly attack you
have made in the Examiner, on the insi
dious propositions, miscalled a Compro
mise, tendered by Mr. Clay, from the
Committee of Thirteen, to the South for
the settlement of the sectional issues, which
have so agitated the country'; and for your
eenerous appreciation and able vindica
tion of the purposes of those Southern
members who oppose and denounce the
ignominious concessions demanded of
them. It is, indeed, amazing to me, that
among intelligent and tme hearted men,
there sli uld He difficulty in discerning,
arid doubt of hesitancy in repudiating the
specious pretences of this delusive Com
promise. As you justly insist, the oppo
sition of the South to the Wilmot Proviso
was not t • a simple name, to a mere instru
mentality. but to a principle—a system
and tin end sought to be established and
accomplished by that measure, 'i be whole
South warred, and stands thoroughly com
mitted, against the exclusion of the citizens
of the slaveholding States from participa
tion, settlement, and equality of privilege
in the vast expanse of territory acquired
by a common Government, hy joint exer
tions and sacrifices, from Mexico. The
South was demanding a right believed to
be a clear, existing constitutional privilege,
and although asset ted by them as the ne
gation of the power to pass the Wilmot
Proviso, such negative position was simply
because the unjust prohibition had only
been sought to be accomplished by that
single measure. Any other decree of in
strumentality invoked to accomplish such
unjust ex lusion, must be equally repug
nant to their honorand safety, and he equal
ly the ground of resistance “at every haz
ard and to the last extremity.” You are
therefore clearly right in insisting that ac
ceptance of the present scheme of Compro
mise would be an ignominous backing out
from the position deliberately assumed,
and a complete abandonment of all the
su stantial tights heretofore asserted by
the South.
The scheme seems to me one the most
odious ever prescribed to us. It demands
concession—concession of vital rights at
every point, and, so far as 1 can perceive,
gives no compensation whatever—not even
the poor boon of equal privilege and sim
ple protection of our property in the Ter
ti oiies Utah and New Mexico, the least
valuab eof nur nevvacquisi ions. It sanc
tions and consumates the outage of our
total exclusion from the immense extent
and exhaustless treasures of California; in
which, if we of the South had had fair
play and equal rights, we shouldhavehad,
at this very time, ten or twenty thousand
slaves, yielding to their owners in the
slaveholding States from ten to thirty mil
lions of yearly revenue; whilJe the mo
neyed value of the whole slave property
of the South would, by a natural demand
for laborers in so profitable a business, have
been increased at least one hundred per
cent. Is it net a monstrous outrage, that
the only laboring class in the world debar
red from participation in the mineral
I treasutes of California, is the laboring class
I of one half of this Union ! and this is done
without law, against the assent of Con
gress, on the mere invitation or instigation
!of the Executive, bv the horde of adveu-
MACON, (GA.,) SATURDAY AFTERNOON. JUNE 15, 1850
turers and trespassers attracted from all
parts of the world with the thirst of gold.
By this scheme, not only the whole of the
claim of Texas to the Territories, acquir
ed in Iter right and in her name, hut also
a very large territory heretofore confessed
ly a part of Texas, and under the juris
dicton of her laws establishing slavery, is
surrendered; nay, is paid for hy millions
of treasure, to be subjected, as all must
admit, to the doubtful hazard— and as I
believe, to the certain destiny of Free Soil
ism. The right of Congress over the in
stitution of slavery in the District cf Co
lumbia is, by this scheme, impliedly ad
mitted; and is only arrested now by the
concession of interference with one of the
direct and essential incidents property in
slaves—the right of buying and selling
them. The cleat constitutional obligation
! c f the Nor hto surrender fugitive slaves
is indeed acknowledged ; but only to be
hampered and icstricted by cumbrous con
trivances to appease their prejudices, and
delay the vindication of our rights. For
all these concessions on the part of the
South, the only compensation pretended
to be offered by the bill,is the forbearance
as to Utah and New Mexico, of the need
less insult of the Wilmot Proviso, co nomi
ne; while even as to them, the exercise of
jurisdiction hy the territorial governments
for the maintainance of the relation of
master and slave, or of the conservation
of slave property, positively prohibited.—
Surely such a scheme ought not even to be
acquisced in or submitted to bytheSouth,
if forced on us by the tyranny of a North
ern majority. Il -w passing strange then
that Southern Representatives are expect
ed and called on to approve and pass it by
their own votes! Not merely to submit
to the inevitable chain, but to aid in man
acling ourselves, and hug the emblem of
honorand safety. Others may do as their
convictions and their consciences may al
low, but for myself, personally, I would
resign and forfeit public station and
for ever,before I would subject myself and
my constituents to the degradation and
the ignominy of sustaining such a mea
sure.
I hope you will go on in the same spirit
to inform and arouse the South ; and my
life upon it, when the real fetures of the
measure are exposed and understood,
they will reject it with indignation and
scorn. In one respect, however, I fear you
may have inadvertently done injustice.—
I mean in reference to the other Demo-ra
tic papers of the State. The Pilot of
Portsmouth, the Argus of Norfolk, the
Jeffersonian; and Lynchburg Republican,
have all, I understand, taken gallant
ground against the Compromise, I en
close an able article from the first,which,if
your columns will allow, I should be
pleased to see inserted in your widely
circulated paper. Excuse the liberty 1
have taken, and believe me,
Grateful y and cordially yours,
JAMES A. SED DON.
From White's Statistics of Georgia.
Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Georgia.
It is situated about half a mile above
the city on the hanks of the Ocmulgee
river, mostly on ele' ated ground, the high
est point being 142 feet above its bed.—
Its en ranee is through a lofty arched gate,
constructed after the Doric order of archi
tecture. The atea of ground comprised
within the enclosure is about 50 acres.—
Another shot could scarcely be found in
any section of our country so many dis
tinct objects and combinations going to
form a perfect picture of rural beauty.—
Many who have visited the Cemeteries of
the North, and even the far famed Mount
Auburn, think it far inferior in natural
beauty and location to Rose Hill. A pro
minent feature in its scenery is the Ocmul
gee river, along which it extends nearly
hall of a mile. The banks are from thir
ty to sixty feet high, and generally rocky
and precipitous, and form an impenetra
ble barrier to its approaches. The high
er parts of die ground are nearly level,
and laid out as places of interment; other
places have been selected by many in the
wildest parts, almost overhanging the
deep valleys. Fn ni the river deep and
narrow dells penetra e the ground from
fifty to two hundred yards ; one of them
divides it entirely near its centre, through,
which a rivulet murmurs over a steep and
rocky bed to the river. Thus is supplied
by four springs, one at the head, outside
the ground, and three within it. The wa
ter of one is reputed to be the coolest and
purest in this vicinity. It is most beauti
fully located, and is the most attractive
spot for visiters. The banks around it
are high and steep, and thickly wooded.—
Above it. tower giant poplars and the sha
dy beech, and the sun can scarcely pene
tiateabeamto enlighten this quiet and
solemn solitude. Seats are provided here
for visiters, as well as in many other parts
of the ground. Two rustic bridges of
rock and earth cross this valley ; and in it
a pond of about 80 yards in length, by 20
in breadth, has been excavated, supplied
by pure water from the springs, and its
banks neatly sodded with grass. Around
it, are several cypresses and weeping wil
lows, and one rises from a mound in its
centre. A variety of tine roses are also
near it, and in perpetual bloom. These
are also scattered over the ground, anil
along the walks and roads, in great profu
sion. The ridges between the dells arc
steep, and generally terminate abruptly
in rocky cliffs at or near the liver. On
their summits are most beautiful sites for
lor burial lots, most of which are occupied.
A broad avenue from the gate terminates
on a rocky bluff at the river. Carriage
ways are laid vvhereever neeessaiy.
One makes the entire circuit of the ground;
another winds along the heads of the val
leys, and presents most picturesque views,
the entire length of the roads and foot-
I walks is about 5 miles. Many of them
i have been construc ed with great labor,
j being cut into the steep sides of the river
bank and hills, winding through every
place that presents any object of attraction.
The lots of families are of different dimen
sion!, from 20 to 40 feet square, and at
prices varying from 10 to 30 dollars.—
About 150 have been allotted for stran
gers. A record is kept of all the inter
merts, by which the occupant of every
| givve can be designated. Many of the
lots are enclosed with iron and handsomely
improved with monuments, and the most
choice shrubbery, making it emphatically
a "Garden of Graves.” The first object
that strikes a visiter on entering the gate,
is a lot belonging to Macon Lodge, No.
96, handsomely enclosed, and planted
with evergreen trees and shrubs, many of
which are from far-off lands. The orien
tal cypress, from Asia, raises its graceful
spire ; the balm of Gilead, Norway and
silver firs, the hemlock, arbor vitaj, cedar,
juniper, and wild olive the broom and
furze, and even the hhmble thorn, from
w'hose branches was plaited the crown
worn on Mount Calvary. This sacred
ground is appropriated as the testing place
to strangers belonging to the Masonic or
der. The Odd Fellows have also their
enclosure, and beside it “that ancient and
peculiar people,” the Jews, have also their
resting place. Most of the Cemetery is
thickly wooded hy a young and thrifty
growth, interspersed with the towering
poplar, giant oaks, beech and sycamore;
am! it is worthy of remark that there is
scarcely a tree, shrub, or wild flower, that
is known in our country, that may not be
found within this area of 50 acres. A
morg those that most adorn it are the wild
honeysuckle in abundance, woodbine, gol
denhypericum, &c. These, with its im
prorements and diversified landscape,
cannot fail to attract the attention and
leave deep impressions on every visitor.
The ri ver, murmuring over its rocky bed, |
wheeling around immovable ciiffs of gran
ite and flint, rolling on and on forever,
like the tide ol human life, to mingle in
the imfathomed and undefined ahvss of
eternity, imparts an instructive lesson,
while the beauties of the scene disarm
deiuii of Half its ten ors.
From the Pendleton Farmer.
IMotle of Cultivating Cotton.
gentlemen —l send you for puclicaion in
yojrj mrnal, which promises so lair toben
efi the agriculturists of the South, the
m-de adopted by Mr. Glen,of our District,
of raising Cotton. And permit me here to
sujgest to die farmers ofour section, that
tlu success of Mr. Glen for the last two or
thiee years has proven that cotton can be
rased in this District, so as to remmu
na'ate with nearly, if not equally, as much
ne t gain as in any District is this S ate—
taliug into the calculations the cheapness
ofliving— the health and Consequent in
ertase of laborers and the genera! econo
my of our people.
The crop he made in 1849 I have not
heird from. The crop of 1848, he made,
wlh three hands, 27,000 pounds of seed
colon; and this, too, from 25 acres of
laid. Each acre making over 1000
p unds. Making something over 17 bags
of4oo each, or 6 bags to the hand, besides
provisions enough for his family and stock.
He farm is all upland, lies on the North
side of Three-and-Twenty Mile Creek,
se'en miles East of Pendleton, and was
purchased by him some four or five years
ag> at, 1 think, §1 per acre, of Col. Ham
ilton.
3n a visit to me some time the past year,
he gave me his mode of preparing the
ground, manuring, planting and cultivating
Cctton, which I will give pretty much in
his own words.
He says it is mote convenient to plant
in the midd : es, but better to plant on the
old bed. When be manures, he runs a
furrow on the old bed, puts in manure in
the common way, throws two furrows on
the manure and lets it lie till planting time.
At planting time he breaks out the mid
dle, which makes bis ridges fresh again.—
But when he plants land not manured, be
runs no centre furrow to bed on, but sim
ply laps two furrows on an unbroken
ridge, which he leaves bard ; this he does
early in the spring, and at planting time
bleaks out the middles as he does with
land manured.
His planting time is from the 4th to the
10th April, which he does by making a
slight furrow on the ridge with a small
gofer. Then, after the seed are wet and
rolled in ashes, he has them dropped in the
furrow at the rate of two bushels to the
acre, covers with a board having a notch
cut in the centre and don t strike off.
So soon as the cotton is up so that you
can see generally along the row, he runs
around it with a plow, with a board so fixed
as to throw the dirt away from the young
cotton, and let the sun into the t outs. —
Then, as soon as the third leaf can he
seen in places he begins to hoe to a stand
lets all other farm business wait till he gets
his whole crop to a stand.
The third leaf is usually seen between
NUMBER 23.
the 10th and 15th of May,and by the last of
May he lias it all brought to a stand. If
this be done hy the last of May he thinks
his crop pretty well made.
Thinning to a stand, he means to bring
it all to tine stalk in a place, ten inches
apart on poor land, fifreen inches on better
and twenty inches on rich or manured
land. He is very particular to leave no
more than one stalk in a place.
'I he first hoeing commences with the
ippearance of the tjiird leaf, which gener
ally will be about two weeks after the run
ning round. T his hoeing should leave
nr> grass standing. In about a week after
tlie hoes start, the ploughs should follow
and with a mould board, throw about as
much earth to the cotton as the hoes have
token away. Then the buzzard follows
and bursts out the middles. He continues
working in the same way throughout the
crop, that is, the hoes going before and
the ploughs following, and lays by by the
middle or 20th of July. He plants the
white seed. Respectfully, your friend,
R. F. SIMPSON.
April 10, 1850.
From Seott's Weekly Paper.
CUBA.
The recent invasion of Cuba has direct
ed the attention of thousands of persons
thitherward, wdio, heretofore, have remain
ed content with little more knowledge
than their school geographies furnished
them with. The position alone of Cuba,
however, renders her, under any circum
stances, an object of interest. Whether
we look back over three centuries, when
Columbus first beheld her beautiful, shores,
and the lofty summits of Portohello and
Cobre, rising like beacons of safety and
promise through the dreary uncertainties
before him; or view her as she stands
now, clothed with increased importance
asihe acknowledgad Gibraltar at the por
tals of the American sea, commanding the
g eat highway to Mexico, South America,
California and the Pacific, there is some
thing to excile curiosi’y and command at
tention. It is an Island of beauty and fer
tility, as well as of geographical impor
tance—as its well stocked farms and luxu
rous plantations, its fields of plantains, its
palms, sugar canes, almond and orange
groves, and its mountains crowned with
luxuriant growth, abundantly prove. It
may indeed he well designated as a place,
in the language of Bishop Heber,
“Where every prospect pleases,
And only man is vile.”
The truth is, Cuba is suffering under
the baneful authority of old Spain, as the
Uuiicd Giatco auficiei) previous to ttie He
volutionary war, and to this evil may be
readily traced most of the others under
which the creole population groan, asadi
rect and exciting cause. It has reduced
the local government, administered in all
its departments by a captain general, into
a military despotism; and it hasengrufted
upon that government, the features which
render such a despotism most odious. It
has sapped the vitals of religion until its
forms have scarcely a decent observance ;
it has sown the seeds of practical infideli
ty until the very morals of the Island are
a reproach tothe Christian age. The mor
al and political condition of Cuba is, at
present, at a very low ebb.
The last census of the Island, that of’
1811 gix'esa total population of 1,045,624,
"f which 571,129 are white inhabitants,
free mulattoes and free blacks, 436.
595 are mulatto and black slaves, and 88,-
000 transient inhabitants. The number of
children educated, in proportion to all the
free population, is otic to sixty! —an act,re
plete in itself, with alarming reflections
The most immediate causes of discon
tent among the population of Cuba, oflate,
fall under three general heads, —the cor
rupt cupidity of local rulers, leading them
to invent oppressions in order to extort
ransoms; the method of taxation now ad
ministeied; and the total deprivation un
der which a large portion of the popula
tion suffer, of any representation in the
local government. These, considered sin
gly are grievous ; in the aggregate, they
would be intolerable to any other than a
vastly degraded people.
The press, as might naturally be suppos
ed under such a government, is under a
degiading censorship,intended tosmother
any complaints against the ruling authori
ties, and all appeals for redress. Tlius al
though the creole population is excluded
from lhe participation in the government,
no complaints reach us through the news
papers of the Island. A citizen must ob
tain and pay for a license to entertain com
pany, or for any amusement at his house.
The same for permission to leave his place
of residence. A citizen can neither walk
the streets after ten o’clock at night with
out leave, nor lodge a person at his house
without giving information. Yetthe press
dare not discuss these topics, or point on
the end to which they must eventually tend.
Cuba properly governed—even as she
was governed twenty five years ago-might,
and would become, in every respect, an
important and interesting Island. Her
people might be enterprising, prosperous
and happy, with one of the most genial
climates in the world, there is nothing
which, in the nature of things, ought to
depress her, either morally or physically.
But Cuba as she is, independent of hei
geographical position and beauty—the
seat of misgovernment, political corrup
tion, and cupidity, is any thing but an at
ttactive spectacle to look upon.
BOOK AND JOB PRINTING,
Will he ex emitted in the most approved style
an and on the lest terms, at (he Office of the
SCTTEEB.IT Tr.IBTITE
—BY—
WM. ft. HARRISON.
From the Hiimbui v Republican.
Mr. Editor : — An article in your paner
says: “When man comes to marry,* ho
wants a companion not ah artist; he wants
a being who can comfort, counsel, reason,
reflect, judge.feel,discourse,and disciimin
ate; one who can lighten his sorrows, pu
rify his joys, strengthen his principles,
and educate his children.” The man, whtf
attains this, has reached and seemed the
richest of Heaven’s treasures. I care not
what his condition in life may be, he is
happy, must and will prosper, his children
will be not only bis ornament, but on or
nament to any nation; they will call him
blessed. Such a companion is rarely
found; not from want of purity of heart;
a virtuous mind, an aimnble disposition or
any other natural qualification ; hut from
want of proper training and education in
youth. A child’s mind is like a piece of
clay, it may moulded to honor or dishonor,
according to whose care he may be en
trusted. It is rarely the case that men of
intelligence, who have been educa’ed to
habits ol industry and virtue; and who
employ their lci-ure moments in the ac
quirements of uscfull knowledge by read
ing, reasoning, reflecting m otherwise,
will sacrifice their reputations, their es
tates, lives, wives and children, in a word,
their happiness, to intemperance. Hu
man happiness is founded upon wisdom
and virtue, hence we should study how to
attain wisdom, and practice virtue. Let
moral virtue constitute an essential branch
ot instiuction in every school, that our
youths may be carefully taught the art of
thinking and acting properly, as well as
speaking, reading, and writing cotrectly.
We should have, by all means, correct
examples in our.teachers. There is but
one method of preventing crimes, and
rendering a good government parmanent,
that is, by disseminating the seeds of vir
tue and knoweledge through ever neigh
borhood. This can only be accomplished
hy means of proper places anil modes of
instruction. Promote, then, as an object
ot primary importance, institutions for
the general diffusion of useful knowledge;
for says our venerated Washington. “In
proportion as the structure of a govern
ment gives force to public opinion, it is es
sential that public opinion should be en
lightened.” Then let divines, philosophers,
statesmen, and patriots unite their endea
vors to renovate the age hy impressing on
the minds of the people the importance
of rightly educating, raising and Uaining
the rising generation. The printing press
should not be remiss in its duty. It is
the main engine. Knowledge and virtue
are. generally suenkinff. insenni able com
panions, and are in the moral, what light
and heat are in the natural world. They
are the Humiliating and vivifying principle.
Knowledge, says Blair, is the foundation
of happiness. The press is the most effi
cient means hy which knowledge may be
conveyed, therefore, our cdhiors, next to
our divines, should bs men of sterling
worth, pure in heart, sound in principle,
and well acquainted with the book from
which the best of knowledge is acquired,
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al, and intellectual.
We are creatures of circumstances
dependant from our birth upon our pa
rents or guardains for every thing. We
are denied the right to act, and think for
ourselves. Hence it is that our educa
tion is formed, limited, directed, and per
fected by our parents and guardains, with
out any reference whatever to our capaci
ty, resources, or interest. Female educa
tion at best is but a tissue of dissimula
tion, talso delicacy, false taste, false pride,
false dignity—in line, falseeduca’ion from
the beginning to tlieend. We have nothing
solid, substantial, or useful in our whole
course of instruction. We are taught to
wiite by copy plate or imitation, we are
taught to read without thinking ; we are
parlicnlrly taught to laugh, giggle, sing,
dance, thrum on the piano, or some other
musical instrument. In fact our five seses
lie dormant, nor w ill the fashion of the day
permit to use the talents we have. With
regret I feel and know that from this mode
of education springs so many empty-head
ed. giggling, light-minded, and frivolous
males and females. Our education, sir, is
wrong, the fault is not ours, but that of our
parents and guardains ; then taunt them
with il through the press as much as you
please, and severely as they deserve; but
spare the female. Her ignorance is a suffi
cient torment for any negligence on her
part. Under the present mode of instruc
tion she cannot qualify herself to move in
the sphere which she most ardently wish
es, and which nature seems to have fitted
her to occupy. Bitterly does she feel the
sing. All great men attribute their great
ness to their mothers; these few mothers
had the advantage of a correct example,
proper training, and discipliningthe mind
in youth, and of culivating their talents in
years of maturity. By their training and
education they were capacitated to dis
charge the duties incumbent upon them
in regard to their offspring. Should not
this teach our parents and guardains a les
son ? Nature designed woman as a help
mate for man. She is equal in point of
intellect, his superior iti refinement of feel
ing and taste. If she is not a blessing to
him, it is from want of proper education.
Fathers and brothers, divines and editors,
the condition of our sex calls on you with
an imploring voice to use your efforts in
iheir behalf, and point the errors of their
education and the remedy. E.
