Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-07-02
W.HEE
THE INTELLIGENCER,.
DE. Wines,s Addrcss.

ASFeeaDly to an lntimation in our issue or
yesterday, we have the pleasure to-day to Law
before our readers the following condensed re-
porttot the remarks of DR.. Wines, at the close
Of the public examination of the Wheeling ia.
male Seminary:
Mrs. HANNA:--Tn reply to your polite invita-
uon, ! cannot refrain from expressing the high
grauhcatlon, which, i'll common with al tho
spectators, have experienced upon the present
occasion: Rarely has it been my privilege to
'9ttehu upon any similar exercises, that rave
sue. cc. unmlxed satisfaction from the evidences
OF hlSh Improvement afforded by them While
some OF the dXaminatiOns have been ofa very
superior order, Chat Of the Senior class in Bur
,cT analogy, for inStance0 all have been in n
nigh degree creditabe to both teachers ond
Scno"rS,-cvincing, i'll the former, zeal, fidelity.
and eminent fitness for their work, and in the
latter, intelligence attention, and industrious
application. I congratulate the ciIizens Of
w heellng, and in particular the fathers and
mothers OF Wheeling, on having such an inst,-
luton IN their midst, to which they may send
thelr daughters to be educated. You have
many things on which you may justly pride
yourselves, your manufacturing aud commercial
e"!erPT.Se' use your social refinement, your public
spirit, &c, but, in my. judgement, this institu-
'lOn Is one OF your chief ornaments AS the
mother OF the Gracchi pointed to her sons, saw.
ing, These are my jewels, SO may you to YOUR
rcmaIe Seminary. This school is worthy of
your confidence, worthy your support, wor-
my OF your patronage, and if you will permit
the remark, it seems to INC that you ought to
rally around it as one man, and sustain #
heartily and literally as Pr0testant ImSii-
tuition.
10 you, Mrs. Hanna, tender nv cordial
congratulations on the eminent success which
mas crowned your brief educational laborS in
this city; which, indeed, might have been and
OfI16 fro, tI,
extended labors Of the same kind elsewhere.
such scenes as those in which you have been a
vhlei actor to-day, must be an ample reward for
even such scli-denyimg aud cXhauSting laborS as
those in which you arc engaged. Yours is the
woman.
Education! what is 1t? y process Of devclon-
ment, the out-working Of an inner life. As the
germ contaInS, III cnbryO, all the parts and
properties of the full Ernicd plant, as the vonur
hon has Slumbcring within him the pride aud
the strength of the lord of the forest. SO the
infant Plato, the infant Newton, the infant Mil
ton, and the infant Mrs. More have in primary
and unconscious weakness, the sublime intelli
sence and feelings OF their after greatness
1t Is the development of his spiritual being
that properly constitutes the education of man.
This spiritual being we are accustomed to con
template under the threshold division of the
intellectual, the sensitive, aud the moral The
to the emotions and passiOnS and llc ,nnral to
truth and duty. Education, in the p oper sense
Is the harmonious development OF al. tncSe in
unison. Any system, which aims at any other
result, is destitute Of the lift-giving aud life.
sustaining principle of education, and mnst ne
ccSSari!y DC the sport Oi custom, o[accident, of
prejudice, of necessity.
Now, education, as thus defined, is not con-
fined to sex. 1t is the brthright of woman. MS
well as of man, and that FOR the plain. simplv
and sufficient reason, that woman has the same
mental constitution as man. There is not n
single power or faculty that belongs to the one
which does not belong to the other also The
education Of woman, therefore, if it is 81 dcv.l
opment OF the same kind, must also be csScnti-
ally the same process. The discipline admitted
to develop the mind Of man, is equally adapted
to develop the mind of woman. In both cases
1t Is the development f the human mind This
truth, palpable as it is, has been SADLY overlool,
ed, and woman has been, practically, regarded
as an inferior being both in her mental consti-
tuition anu IN the purposes Of her crcntion. On
this point, ] cordially agree with the youn,
lady,,who read thc:.admirable valedictory address
to the graduating class. | hold that female cdu-
cation, in point Uf acquisition and mental disci-
plinc, should be placed OH the same footing with
that OF men; with one exception, viz, that the
education of men is TO be conducted with refer.
cnce to public action; that Of woman with ref.
erencc to private influence. But, as far ms the
development of the intellectual and moral facnl.
ties and the formation OF a noble and wci.Atv
character are concerned, on what principle Shall
wc place the one sex below the Other? Why
did God give to woman reason, thought and
Sensibility, if they were not to be unfolded dis.
cipined, aud led on to perfection? Shall her
high powers be suffered to slumbcr, and She
who was made all beautiful to the eye, not be
permitted to bring out to view that hoblcr spiri-
tual beauty, of which the external form is but
u shadowing forth and an embIemg
But further: woman sustains to man and to
the, dcstinicS Of the world, the most important
relations. Mother sister, wife, daughtcr,-can
you estimate their influence on the heart and
character Of man? Hers is the dominion of
the affections and the Sympathics To her Sc.
cret grasp is committed the Sceptre Of the world
Through infancy, childhood, youth, manhood,
and old age she is with us under different names
and they are all names of the heart. Now,
suppose her, in all these different relations and
Offices being Of cultivated intelligence, refined
feelings, and religious purity; how vast, how
wcighty, how bencficent must her influence he
He, therefore, who has daughter to educate,
is placed under solemn responsibility. He
holds in his hand portion Of the destiny Of lis
own age and of Fmturc generations. That man has
Suic.y Uat lived in yHi who mas Irt.na!ri I,,g