The mechanic defends himself.
"I am a Republican," he says, "upon principle, and wherever I go I must exert all the influence in my power to promote free principles, and to expose the usurpations and the tyranny of kings." To this the monarchist might very properly reply, "In your efforts to promote your principles, you are limited, or you ought to be limited, to modes that are proper and honorable.

I employ you for a distinct and specific purpose, which has nothing to do with questions of government, and you ought not to allow your love of republican principles to lead you to take advantage of the position in which I place you, and interfere with my plans for the political education of my children." Now for the parallel case.

A member of a Congregational society is employed to teach a school in a district occupied exclusively by Friends--a case not uncommon.

He is employed there, not as a religious teacher, but for another specific and well-defined object.

It is for the purpose of teaching the children of that district _reading, writing,_ and _calculation_, and for such other purposes analogous to this as the law providing for the establishment of district schools contemplated.
Now, when he is placed in such a situation, with such a trust confided to him, and such duties to discharge, it is not right for him to make use of the influence which this official station gives him over the minds of the children committed to his care for the accomplishment of _any other purposes whatever_ which the parents would disapprove.