The Duty of American Women to Their Country

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Catharine Esther Beecher. The Duty of American Women to Their Country

The Duty of American Women to Their Country

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Sufferings of Little Children from Bad Schoolhouses

Sufferings of Little Children from Want of Accommodations at School

Sufferings of Little Children for Want of Pure Air

Sufferings of Little Children from Cold, Heat, and Filth

Sufferings of Little Children from Cruel and Improper Punishments

Moral Injuries inflicted on Children at School

A PLAN PROPOSED

From the Hon. Thomas Burrowes, late Secretary of State in Pennsylvania

From the Rev. Mr. Sturtevant, President of Illinois College

From the Rev. Henry Beecher, of Indianapolis, Indiana

The following is extracted from a letter from the Dr. Cornett spoken of above

The following is from Judge Lane, of the Supreme Court of Ohio

The following is from one of the leading Lawyers of Ohio

The following is from E. C. Delavan, Esq., who has devoted so much of his time for several years to the cause of Temperance

The following is from a Lawyer in Cincinnati

The following extract from an address of Prof. Stowe, delivered at Portland in 1844, corroborates the views expressed by the author on the subject of moral training

FOOTNOTES

NOTE A

NOTE B

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Catharine Esther Beecher

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Another says, “The teacher found abundant employment in stuffing the old stove with green birch and elm, cut as occasion required by the teacher and the boys. A continual coughing was kept up by nearly seven-eighths of the children, and the teacher apologised for want of order by saying, ‘they could not usually do much in stormy weather till afternoon, when the fire would get a going.’ On this occasion, one trustee and two of the inhabitants of the district were present an hour, when, getting frozen out, they asked to be excused, and left the children to suffer, saying, ‘We did not think our house was so uncomfortable. Some glass must be got, and a load of dry wood’ ” Some of the statements of these superintendents, as to the order and neatness of their schoolhouses, are no less lamentable. One remarks, that “some of them, as to neatness, resemble the domicil for swine.” Another describes one schoolhouse as “having the clapboards torn off, the door just ready to fall, an aperture in the roof where the chimney once was, slabs with a pair of clubs at each end for legs, and so high no child could touch foot to the floor, rickety desks falling to ruin, the plaster torn off, and the whole covered with dirt, and as filthy as the street itself.” But this is not all. “This house is situated in a district of wealthy farmers.”

Another says, “It is a startling truth, that very many of our schoolhouses furnish no private retreat whatever for teacher or scholar. Thus is one side of the schoolhouse, and, in some instances, the doorstep, rendered a scene more disgusting than the filth of a pig-sty.”

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