Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-01


more than Inale2 Is matrimony any more
distracting to the female mind than to the
masculine On the contrary, the feminine
does not take the complaint any more vio-
lenty, and convalesces much quicker. Are
the Detroit School Directors Turks, and do
they want woman shut up from the public
as soon as she is married. There may be a
consequence Of matrimony, to the female
party that in the present aimless end Of edu-
cation, would interfere with the discharge
of her duties as teacher--though little prac-
tical knowledge of bringing up babies would
be of more use to girls than all they acquire
at the schools-but when that coming event
is foreshadoWed, it would be time enough to
talk of ofresignation, and it would require no
discipline of the Directors to bring it about.
But the Detroit Board evidently think that
the affection Of a woman for her husband
will so distract her mind from her duties, as
to unfit her for a teacher. Uncle Toby him
self was not so charmingly innocent. Mat
rimony is the cure for all this. The most
violent symptoms are previous to that. By
placing penalty on matrimony, the Board
have only provided for lingering out and ag-
gravating the disease, by taking away'the
remedy. Ifthe Detroit Board wish to carry
out their principle, they must begin long be-
fore matrimony, and make it cause of dis
charge for any female teacher to have a
follower. And why not male, as we'll as
female2 What right has Board of Ed
ucation to suppress the affections of the
female teachers, and allow those of the males
their full range? There is great principle
involved in this, and we feel inwardly moved
to "exslt our horn"-to use the sublime
language of Scripture = against the i'm
posititioD of this new legal disability on OPP
pressed woman.
We think that we shall have the united
support of all our married readers, in the
position that matrimony no more disqualiies
a woman than man for the discharge of
mental labor; and that the idea of any great
disturbance of the mind, in consequence Of
that change of condition, is all moonshine;
except perhaps, for a week or ten days,
which could easily be adapted to vacations.
There is more in this than appears to the
casual observer and people may be thankful
for the dispensation of editors-which may
be cIassed as the third great dispensation-to
look into "the inner life;" as the spiritual
Adah Isaacs Menken would say, of current
events, and warn the public of its danger,
lust as Rome was warned and saved by the
aid of the same editorial weapons, though
then only as an accompaniment to the main
squawk; but that was before the pen became
mightier than the sword.
We observe by the reported proceedings
ofthe State Teachers Association at Newark,
that the great object of the State High
Schools is to educate teachers for these and
the other grades of schools. Thus the ener-
gies of the system are absorbed in propagat-
ing its species, just as in the human system.
But by the application fthe rule ofcolibacy,
the propagation of the educational species
becomes incompatible with the propagation
of the human species, and thus both will
come to an end: it is only question of time.
Is it possible that aperfected school system
becomes fatal to population? Is there no
way to train manhood up TO the State-school
concert pitch of education without suppress
ing the race? Or is the propagation of the
human species to be assigned to low caste
of ignorant people, just as this duty is ap-
poTtioned to particular class in colony of
bees?
The chief end of mankind, as taught to
Abreham, Isaac and Jacob, and uniformly to
the chosen people of God, by Moses, is to
increase and multiply. This was the chief
favor promised to the Hebrews; not liberty
nor great civilization, for those they never
had; and this favor they enjoyed so power
fully that although they were slaves to the
Egyptians, their increase alarmed their own
ers. To increase and multiply, is as much
the duty of mankind now, as it was then;
bnt now the public school system comes in
and sets itself up against divine command.
Thus the female teachers are prohibited from
the exercise of their concienscious conYic-
tioDs, and the law is arrayed against reli-
gious duty.
We have treated this rule as if it were to
be adopted by our State School system, for
we have observed that the way to make
mankind perfectly virtuous, happy and above
want, is to perfect the school system !;
and that peTfecting consists in introducing
the modern improvements as rapidly as in
vented. In Toledo, for instance where they
have got the machine so near perfect that
they take the youthful twigs, no matter of
what fiber originally, and turn them all out
rosewood Of the highest polish; they have
made gymnastics a part of the regular
school course nature not having kept pace
with educational improvements, and being
no longer fit TO be trusted with the growth
of any part of the highly-favored youth of
that locality. They only require an educa-
tonal eccaleobion, now, for producing the
children, to dispense with nature altogether
in propagating and rearing the human race,
and thus escape many infrmities and i'm
perfections which were entailed by the old
plan.
The rule of the Detroit Board of Education
is nothing less than adopting the principle
entire, that celibacy is requisite for devotion
20 duty. Its operation will make all our
educstional institutions monastic in their
tendencies; and in a country where ed
ucstion is to be the chief business of the
State, and the propagation of the State
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