The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-09

Vas revived, and there Vas = very
spirited debate. TIE masters OF the
fsEuls became excited by their Own elo-
quenoe, and the spzechez became spicy,
not 70 say nL-naiured.
Mr.. HOssa $. Lincoln, principal Of
ne Lyman School in Boston. opened
the discussion By reading long papsr,
in = bich hs took high moral ground,
asserting IN fact. thsF to abolish cor
porzI punishment would o= sin, and
therefore dizPlsssIng to God.
Mr. Waterman, OF Newton, said that
al.Eough me subject OF corporal pun
Ishmeni lad been discussed 81 great
length, no man had given definition
Of what il IVES, and many teachers were
II The habit Of saying that they had
never struck q blow when he knew
that they were accustomed to shake.
pinch and trip their scholars up and
use olher means that they did no: con-
z.der corporal punishment BE be-
Lsysd the sense OF niusty-nins one
a1ucceiEs Cftne members OF the ssso-
rlztIon was IhaI the teacher should
nave the poser TO use the rod, but be
should exhaust every other means De
Z fore it, employment he wanted some
resolution adopted which should
say that the Institution favored It's use
only IL extreme cas-, and Al the same
lime -etair the power in the hands Of
the teacher. Il the association did not
vote !n this way be WIS strzid il would
Ez. sbrosd inaT they had endorsed the
brutal aud PromIscuous use OF the roo,
and it would be unjust 70 them. He
therefore moved that the resolution op-
posing Mr.. Lincoln'= paper be referred
70 = committee Of three, who should re-
port 3 resolution to BE- acted upon ct
rome future time. He believed in
whipping. but hs did not believe in
having it every month. or every day. II
ne could help it.
Mr.. Valentine. Of New York, fully
agreed with the views Of Mr.. Lincoln.
He remarked that there seemed TO be
growing Impotence among the com
munlty in regard 10 all restraint; he
found it so everywhere.
Sir. Stone, of Portland, warned his
felloS-teAchers that they would always
stand in a false attitude towards the
community unless they endorsed Mr..
LineoIn's paper from beginning to end.
His argument was as follows:
the people who met in Cambridge
todenouuce school whipping made very
great fools of themselves, because they
attempted TO do what sane men never
had attempted 70 do, and they were
heartily ashamed OF II now. 1t was
not true that school teachers were
brutal. Most OF them believed that
they could not dispense With cor
poral punishment, but they all depre-
Gated IL. II Was last resort, but there
were cases where il must Be ussd-
When Professor Azsssiz ssid al iAs
meeting in Cambridge thzt he had
laugh; school Forty years without or
porzl punishment, be Conveyed E-ro-5z
impression: for y zee M : scsool q
children Ilzi Gt= PTCs=ssC= EE1 - uEEt
Du; Ez nd ls-UrE1 10 voluntary st--
d-nls. he sJ15d DUL assG3 = Urinary
-zUoJl Of tzO EEn5Ezd AID aHy Pgp-ls
u S=E EaslAod forty days without
using f3fr=.T
Mr.. Boydsn, principal Of the State
Normal school AZ Bri5geEzter, held
tina; The! principle OF using force as
motive for good conduct with q refrac-
tory pupil, ~as right onei and added,
whipping a man was one thing, and
whipping q refractory boy or girl, dis
ooedient 10 righiful authority, another.
He cOnieDdsG that IL was Tlgnt Tor
teacher, IL his judgment dictated II, TO
use corporal punishment Taxing bu-
msn nature just as IL was, he asked the
OpPousuLs Of corporal punishment to
al 10 al 4
be effective. He endorsed from be-
ginning to end iheseutimentz expressed
in Mr.. LiHcDIn's paper, and he wanted
those principles TO be acted 90, He was
tired of this sickly ssnumentaItsm IN.
When the question Of obedience TO
rightfUl authority came up, and boy
or giTl-he did not care whIch-[sp-
plaG=el got Into that position where II
became necessary to put him into
state of cheerful and willing obedience,
hethUught he would be less injured by
corporal; punishment than by not
learning the lesson OF obedience tn the
law Of God"
Others followed In the same vein.
There were. however, one or two dis
cordant voices. DR.. Morrill, wymau, Of
Cam bridge, told his audiences OF teach
ers that be spoke quite as much in their
favor as in thato their scholars when
ne advised the abolition of corporal
punishment. The profession in other
countries had given it up. In Holland i,
Prussia, Austria, and with rare excep-
tions in France, 1t was happily un-
known. He then passed 10 one OF the
most interesting phases Of the question.
Girls, in consequence Of their delicate
physical and mental organizations,
should not receive corporal punish
ment, because the most disastrous re-
suits might follow. The city OF Cam
bridge at the present time was support
ing a young lady at an insane asylum
in Worcester. Corporal punishment
made heI epiIepIiC. and she became in
sane afterwards, her physician said in
conscience of blows received on the
head from ferrule in the hands of a
female teacher. 4 teacher cOu Id not
iuflic; punishment upon girls without
becoming gradually hardened, and
having his sensibilities bluDted.
DR.. John 2. Ordway followed on the
same side, founding HE argument upon
statistics. Becoming personal, he spoke
of Mr.. Lincoln'S paper as one OF the
weakest ever read TO an intelligent au
dience, and of his sentiments, as far
behind the age. The audience, howev-
er, appeared to agree much more near
ly with Mr.. Lincoln than with DR..
Ordway.
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