The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-05-02
THE COMNION-SCHOOL TEACHER.
BY REV. WILLIAM T. FlNDLEY, XENIA, OHIO.

Some years ago. during the Presidential administration of
Mard Fillmore anecdote obtained almost universal cur
rency to the effect that his Excecncys daughters had
been occuped as teachc during former pc
rod of her now honored fathers history And what regard
ed as the peculiar beauty and interest of this aedote What
was more remarkable the circumstance that President Fill
mores daughter should be commonchoo teacher than that
your daughter should be employed In the same occupation
Why who does understand it at once This is the idea
this lady, who the daughter of President OF the United
Staewho has in this exalted sphere OF social
postion was once 50 o doon IN tile social scale be
gagged in the pursuit Of school teacher Ism
that it? What change Who would ever have dreamed that
teacher would be the daughter of President
What one whose necessities ncnaons would lead her to en-
due the ungrateu toll and huniatng dmdgry incident to
the teaching Of the vulgar n@sste people rich ana poor
high and lowwoud have the good fortune grace the public
and private halls and chambers of the Presidents mansion In
Washington City-not as a cambermaid, butas daughter
and heress Strange are the vcssudes of this cventul life Of
ours Surely should depisc the day of small things for
we do not know what the future may bring forth.
The publcno will not SANDER the public by ascrbng any
such sentiments them but will say certain portion OF the
pubic know of them too WELL and could name them
you wished but let their perish in Their graves whittier
they are going for they unworthy Of place even in this rec
ordI say certain portion OF the public affect to hold the COM
teacher in low estimation because she regarded by
them as the slave of hard necessity she poor and therefore
she engages the he oce Of nstructng your chren and
mine and theirs of the most Indispensable arts OF lite
Humble office did say? will recall that expression True,
lit is hzabe but in sense the term is ordinarily ull-
dersood 1t humble the in which all benelcence Isl
humble as condescendng the ignorance and wants OF man.
kind to relieve them But should rather say nob god1|el
office for such pre-emneny is There is nothing mean or
humiatng in it-nothng be ashamed of Understanding
in it which is inconsistent with the exalted dignity or the
highest promotion.
No strange thing therefore, it, i'll regard that a-
the who could furnish to teach in the
of his beloved country should rise fill the chair Of the Chief
Magstracy of his nation Indeed would rather augur from
such circumstance his history that he worthy such pro-
|moon and hence was the way of its attainment And 1T Is
gratifying to know that this circumstance in the history OF hs
family is quoted pre- udce the public mind against the
merits of it's hero but the conarto create for him high
Ter esteem than would otherwise exist his behalf lie an
honoed father of honoed ghterhonored in his daughter
las certainly as his daughter honoed in her father And
never in the DAYS of her distinguished elevation that
daughter more worhy occupied than when she filled the chair
of the mistress of the school No. not IT
she had been mistress the White House ITSELF would she have
Sustained social rank of excellence and dignity intrinsic
ay than when she welded the scepe, teacher OF the en-
hire Of the hearts and desnies of her immortal subjects in the
room And 50 should every lady teacher hold
her honorable pursuit esteon however others may regard it.
and be ambitious more and excel in tEdtcoor.