Piney Woods planter and Amite union literary reflector. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1838-1838, 1838-09-29

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ana purer shall the
lamp-the holy fame Of KNOWLEDGE burn,
than did the sacred fires Of Persia and Pc
ra--tended by rirgins pure and lopely as
those Of the suu y
Gin all my wandeIings
round this world ofcare," nothing afforded
more real pleasure and delight than
the company of educated, refined and tai
ented females. Alas! meeting with such
is rare. But sweet, like meeting with an
Oasis in the parched desert of Sahara.
In my parigrinatons how often have
deplored the low stage of intellect and
lack of literary taste and requirements
amongst the fair daughters of our happy
America! 1t is thought in many parts
that the only accomplishment necessary
for those females who have not large
| share of the "black ccomplishments,n is
a knowledge Of the drudgery OF the house
hold; while that which distinguishes us
from mere animal beings--that knowledge
which strengthens expands and beauties
the mind, the immortal principle of man
is suffered to lie in embryo-its energies
dormant, inactive as the inanimate clod.
But thanks to the spirit of the age, new
era has dawned upon us, glorious as the
revolution Of empires when tyranny is ex-
changed for freedom--bondage for liberty.
Common sense has burst the bonds that
has for ages bound the female sex to the
car of ignorance. Education is display
ing the latent beauties g. hidden treasures
Of the female mind, which are attractive
as those Of her person; yes, ten fold more
so to every one who values mind above
matter, or God above the world.
These are some of the thoughts that
occupied the mind when reading the efu-
sions of the accomplished Miss --, a
native of the Piney Woods-go on! Maid
moiSctle - -. your destiny is high
one, and
! "lf ounces with you are satyrc,
Receive it for penegyrc."
Goddesses are made of mind, consequently
: the more mind lady has the higher her
approximation to these divine characters.
would be far from speaking as now do,
: were it not at | am convinced the Young
lady, alluded to, is too sensible for it to
have any other effect than to stimulate to
greater effort. Just praise applied to true
merit, and virtuous, vigorous mind, has
universally this effect.
), If there is any one thing more admira-
BILE than all things else we behold in ma
ture, it is young female who betimes re-
tires from the toilette and the fashionable
world, to commune with that part of her
/, being that makes her little lower than
the angels.
!, Such are the hopes of the world; for on
such must the responsibility be, to shape
the minds of the rising and future genera
tons of men Wherever women are nm
educated, degradation and darkness brood
over the empire of mind--knowledge is
neglected and liberty is exiled--Iiberty
vanishes from the grasp. Daughters of
Columbia! how tremendous then is yo,,r
responsibility! The destiny of this wide
spread and mighty cmpire--light and
hope OF the nations--whose influence now
shakes the moral and political world with
the force of the earthquake, is soon to be
cast into the hands ofthose now nurtured
in your arms, and trained by your example
and precept.
Such thoughts can't fail to urge the mind to
roam,
Where science lights the intellectual dome,
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