Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-07-17

grass grow where one had grown, how
much are we indebted for these inventions,
which in usefulness may we'll rank with the
mariners compass and the AIT of printing.
Our manufactures furnish labor, and the
means of living, to hundreds of thousands
OF our honest citizens, and among them
vast number of worthy females. The sails
Of our commerce whiten every sea and, 81
am citizen of the United S'a.es," is proud
passport in any part of the globe. With
an inexhaus'ible quantity Of the richest land,
agriculture enables us to be the granary Of
the world, while the mechanic arts are pros
perously pursued by large number Of our
most useful and respectable citizens. We
have every advantage for domestic and TO-
reign commerce. Our majestic rivers are
studded along their banks, with thriving
villages, beautiful towns, and we have many
large cities, vying in population, commerce
and wealth with those of the old world
Blu. far better than these, than all, our country
is free, free from the valley to the hill, from
the mountain top to the ocean wave. We
have schools, academies and colleges thro'-
out our country for the education Of our
youth. And is it not the sacred duty of
government to educate the citizen TO light
the torch Of science in every neighborhood,
to bring learning and knowledge to the door
of every mud-walled cottage in our land !?
The ballot-box with US, is properly regarded
as the palladium of our liberty as the great
corrector of all the abuses Of our govern
men.; as that which places the poor pea
SAINT, who earns his daily bread by the sweat
of his brow, upon an equal footing with the
rich man, though he be clothed in scarlet
and fine linen and fare sumptuously every
day. But that all this may be the case, the
voter must be educated, a, least to the ex-
tent that he may understand his rights and
his duties and we may rejoice to see that
an increased attention is being paid to the
education of the female as as we'll as male
portion of our citizens. We even read in
the newspapers of the establishment of a
medical college for the ladies, that they may
regularly graduate as Doctors Of Medicine!
Whether this may not be going too far, may
be questioned. Perhaps it would be as we'll
that the ladies should practice the healing
art, as they have always done, in cheering
the dropping spirit, in pouring balm into our
wounds of mind and body, in ministering
| Wnere Inc neart ndtn OIeO.
"Ah! Woman, in our hours of case,
Unstable, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade,
By the light quivering aspen made,
When pain and anguish wiring the brow,
| ministerng angel thou"
As to the importance that the ladies should
| be we'll educated, there can be no question,
when we reflect that they constitute one
half, and it would no. be fattery to say the
better half, of our race tina. as mothers, as
wives, as daughters, as sisters, and in other
tender relations, they stand variously con-
nec,ed in society, over which they exercise
paramount influence. 1t has been we'll
remarked, that the three master influences
which govern the world, are the cas,ridg dge-
box, the ballot-box, and the band-box; or,
force, opinion, and affection. Though wo-
man has but little to do with force, in her
gentle ways and means, yet, in forming and
controlling public opinion, she has no little
share, and, in the region Of affection, she
reigns supreme. Her influence, falling like
the gentle dews Of heaven, is seen and felt
in the verdure and beauty which it spreads
around. All yield ready obedience to wo-
mans government, resting upon modesty
and virtue and femme delcacy and grace.
Christianity has elevated woman to COM
panonship with man, and it is not only in
the days of Chivalry, OF the Minstrels, and
Troubadors, that her humanizng and re-
fnlng power has been seen; but in every
age, among all people, as the station Of wo-
man has been advanced, in such proportion
has society been humanized, refined and
elevated. In the improvements then that
are going on among US, let US have the in
huence of the handbook; and that the band
box influence may be exered arig gh! let wo-
man be educated, educated in such man
ner as fully to develope all the fine faculties
of her mind, all the lovely feelings of her
heart, Then our country may, as did the
mother Of the Gracci when asked for her
Jewels, point to her sons.
For the great blessings which we enjoy
as nation, we are, under God, chiefly in
deb,ed to our excellent Constitution and
form of government Our fathers, when
they first peopled this land, brought with
them learning and religion. They brought
that venerable embodiment of the wisdom OF
centuries, the Common Law of Eng gland.-
They brought the habeas corpus, and the
trial by jury. In forming government and
laws, they had the light of all nations, and
of all ages, pas. and present, to direc. them,
and thus their condition was somewhat that
of Minerva, whom the poets represent to
have sprung from the brain of Jupiter a!rea-
dy armed and equipped. Our Declaration
of independence, was the great beginning,
and the adoption of our Constitution by the
States, the glorious completion Of our happy
Republican Government.