Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-06-30
For the Ypsilanti Sentinel.
FEMALE TEACHERS.


To preserve the youthful mind in the purity
and truth with which it came from the One who
formed it after his likeness-to develope and
strengthen powers that will, brightly exercised,
exult in the happiness which the beauties OF
our earth afford, and, in shedding the light OF
this happiness upon others, open the way to the
felicity of yieing with the highest intelligence
in Gods better world-to give to the opening
mind, by the silent Installations of influence, that
bias which will lead it back to the source whence
it came-this Is a vocation worthy of the no.
blest minds, and of the highest powers of such
minds.
Tho efforts of qualified females should honor
the vocation for many reasons
First THE female in possessing gentlencss,
suavity, high reasoning powers, and frInness,
which gives energy, teaches invariably the un-
Outstanding, and the heart. That heart whose
| life-pulse beats with love, not sordid and sell
fish, but pure, genuine love, is prompter whose
aid will render the education of other sympath-
les most facile that mind which is sanctua-
ry of integritys imperishable beauty, can most
easily preserve to the conscience, its regulator,
truth the intellect that is powerful and mould
ed into beauty by the generous qualities of the
heart, can best, by its attractions, call forth the
strongest powers of intellect.
Second Equity is the guiding star, and du-
ty the helm, which steers woman's bark upon
the sea of life nor is this bark as fral as it is
commonly represented to be. consciousness
of right; strength and purity of mind, defy the
widest storm of opposition. The ship whose
helm is duty, unfurls her sails to the soft gen.
tie zephyr of benevolence, and bears her crew
into the haven OF happiness.
Third :-Woman's mind glows with the pure
principles of patriotism then hers is the duty
to awaken those sentiments upon which the glo-
ry and the perpetu;ty of the Freedom of happy,
proud America depend and most heathenish is
it, in this enlightened day, to squirt through the
veil of prejudice, and under the angle of vision
thus made acute, describe the time and place
where woman must cease to impart political in
struction. If you would take from the female
character meekness, the grace which makes her
lovely, or modesty, the ornament which makes
her angelic, then, deprive her of female instruc-
ton. Would you take from the female, or the
male, that strength of character upon which is
based all domestic happiness, then cast your in
fuence against the female teacher-the most
judicious way to do this, and sustain ones dig
nifty is to "tell around +" that, shat is only q
aconaan's school.
Fourthly :-Self-exertion gives strength to
the moral, and vigor to the mental and physical
frame. If women wish to labor, they may
drudge for one shilling per day, and if they can
by +" initiating men," crawl themselves into the
edge of the learned world, and get penny or
two more, it is well enough,
Self-exertion's Laurel waves not its branches
DER the females path. If an orphan girl de-
ponds upon her own efforts for her maintenance,
she may possibly supply herself with victuals &
scanty clothing, but the minds food, she has
not time nor means to obtain. But one of my
dear friends says to me "what difference does
it make, the poorest girls often marry the most
respectable men," What difference? all diff
erence. Who cares to be respected because
some one with whom she may chance to be
connected is respected Give us the honor of
making good batch Of bread, rather than high
err honors, or shadows of honors, they might be
called, which fall to US over the shoulders of
somebody else. nj. M. FARLEY.