The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-12-20
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behind her sister towns in the cause of ed
ueation, especially female education. There
has been growing disposition on the part
of parents to send their daughters abroad,
to be educated, aud from this fact no teach
sr who had sufficient qualifications to
teach good school. could be sustained
and paid in 8 way that would command
his services and in that way the people
have been deprived of good school, and
the town of many advantages, morally,
mentally and pecuniarily. It is of great
advantage to town pecuniaFily to have a
fine Female College lit brings in thousands
Of dollars in the way of board 10 the citi-
zens. and In sales of goods by the mer-
chant. And in proportion to improve
ment and growth of the town, is the de-
mand for the products of the farmer, hence
it is to the interest Of the farmer out in the
country TO have these schools and colleges
in his own town. His corn and wheat is
worth more and of course his land is worth
more. And then beside all this we have
ali the money otherwise sent off and dis
tributed amcng strangers to build up their
towns and schools, among our own people.
This is no small item. 1t is Of great ad-
vantage morally, to have a town filed up
/ with cultivated and refined young ladies.
Nothing is more restraining to the incon-
siderate youth than to be surrounded with
the refining and purifying influence of wO-
man. For it is an admitted TACT that she
is the arbiter of taste and fashion and
when she says thing is wrong the world
says so too. She shapes the public morals
and he who can bid defiance to her man
dates, is more or less than a man. Then il
she be an instrument capable of yielding
so much influence for good or evil, as the
case may be, is it not a matter Of impor-
tance that she be educated It is argued
by some that all the higher duties of life
devolve upon men. That men make gen.
erals, statesmen, lawyers, doctors, in short,
that men rule the world. 'Tis true men
rule the world, but women rule the men,
and men are harder to control than the
world and without the moral sway she
exerts over him, man would not care the
snap of my finger for the orld it might
wag on. It is evident that m en- and wO-
men were destined for different depart
ments Of duty, and equally plain that bar.
mony may arise from that difference-like
the fine accord of instruments. I know it
never was intended that woman should lead
armies, harangue in the halls of legisla-
ton, hustle up to the ballot box or sit on
judicial tribunals f.; but the work that is
done in quiet an seclusion is as important
as that manifested by collision and noise.
Without secret underground process would
! the sap mount into the tree and give growth
to the boughs that wave in the wind or col
| or to the leaves that rustic in the breeze
| So by an unobtrusiVe and unseen influence
are the characters of men formed at home
by the irst teacher. It is tbs mothers's
influence that infuses the generosity and
the self sacrifice that make the patriot war
rior. She forms those habits of intellec-
tual investigation that qualify the man for
judicial authority. She trains the boy to
that love of justice that strict regard for
truth and that generous sympathy which
fit him for all the social duties. And the
only difference is, man rules by power
woman by influence.
"Power DER the will exerbs its iron sway
While influence gently lures on the way.
Power may rule mems actions but It
never reaches their opinions. Power can
neither modify mems dispositions, i'm
plant sentiments nor alter characters. All
these are the work of influence. Man resists
power but yields to influence. Then ought
not the young ladies to be educated? The
time has been perhaps when the boy need
ed it the more, but that time is now mum
bered among the things that we're. The
. time was chat the Yankee was ahead .
J US in this respect. But Why should no
. the young ladies of the South be as iutelli'
gent as those of the North and more SO p
: We have the advantage in soil, in elimate
ia head aud in heart. In every thing
, Yes I love it all better. love IT
lofty mountains, its vine clad hills' 1T
verdant valleys, Its majestic rivers, 1T
babbling brooks. its sparkling rills, 1t
= gallant men and its lovely women. An
if it was not idolatry could bow dow
: and worship it. No there is not spot up
on the green carpet of Gods fOOs-stOO
where the character ofa truly good and N
h telligeut woman is more highly appreciated
thank God for it, than in our own beloVe'
: South.
Then let us have Female College l
Pulaski. Why should not young ladIe
e. be cultivated in mind IS well as morals
Woman without education is flower with
out an Odor, a chip without aH anchor
There never was time when young Ia