Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-18
For the Fayetteville Observer.
Deal Fairly fairly dealt
with.

thor of "Malcom glanced at" in
your last issue, expected that NJ.
would be demolished by his soul
piercingglances rat least, would
only be able to gasp out-"For
mercy's sake, Deal Fairly, don't
glance at US SO hard" If SO he
was mistaken ; for it was with the
intention of bringing an important
"a vita7ly important subject be-
fore the public, that question was
asked, and few of our views
thereon limited at In that first ar
Iticle. Of course, In so brief a pa
per no elaborate argument to prove
that those views are not fallaciOus
could be entered upon. We do
not believe that the "fair" discus
sion of question i'll which the
veal of the better half of society
is involved will be q "burden"
to the public, however "tedious" it
may be to D. F. II was our inten-
ton in the beginning to discuss the
education of males as we'll as fe-
males; but all could not be EN-.
braced in one article.
AS respects D. F's spiteful filings
and back biting hints, his charges
of ontairness, eory lin the name
of wonder! whom should we envy?)
and interested motives, we would
simply remind him, show little the
clamor of rage or petulence of In
vective" effect when the cause CT
truth is concerned! We submit to
a candid public, is there any "es'o-
taiyness" in publishing ones views
on any subject? Is it D. Fs bu-
siness or that of the public to pro-
nounce whether such be ''wrang-
ling controversy" Has not the
merchant a right to advertise his
goods? Has not the politician a
right to convince the people that
the principles of his party are more
polite than those Of the opposite e?
We are not to be brow-beaten by
the frowns of D. E. or any one else:
no, not even if he should prove to
be very Goliah, clad in all the
mail of aristocracy and armed cap
apple with wealth; and We only a
simple shepherd boy '.pinched" with
poverty. Truth whose cause he
has defied will furnish US a sling
with which we will hurl the peb-
bic OF argument right at his haugh-
ty head. We fear not to "let
them strike" but we will "make
them hear"
Instead OF meeting fairly the O.
pinions advanced in our first ar.
ticle, your correspondent first tries
to dodge the question by a verbal
on GLOW" "What sort of
schools ?" &c. Let this 60 for
what it is worth. In the next
place, lie would have you and the
public believe that we are of opin-
ion that "woman can be educated
and prepared for her great mission
in the world only in mixed schools
Of males and females" No such
inference can be 'Jair7y" drawn
from our language. We did how
ever affirm and now reaffirm
Dur conviction that mixed schools
ire better for the education of both !
males and females than schools |
where the sexes are Separated
The opportunity thereby afforded |
IF each sex of studying the char
acter" of the opposite, though one
reason, ''good and sufficient" so far
rs it goes, is not the only one
which we are ready to render at
my convenient time and place III
| fair, honest and open discussion"
But D. F's not "knowing of
my schools, conducted or desired
o be conducted on the principles
md according to the rigors of old
ime converts" is no proof that
here are none such. Doubtless
'our readers aware that there are
many whose characters butslight-
Y modified from that of the clois-
er. In the winter of '65, | hap
'ened to sojourn for several days
n Salem, N. C. There were then
n attendance, on the female school
ocated there, two young ladies of
ny acquaintance. My duties in
he army, having for long time
ebarred me from the amenities of
ocial life, 1 applied to the officers
f the institution for permission to
call on the young ladies. MyjC
equest was courteously but firmly |
efused, on the ground that the in |
lates were never allowed to see !!
ny visitors except very near re- l
atoms. We suppose that no con-
ent was ever much more seclusive
nan this. Nor is this the only 5