Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-05-30
FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
FOR CONGRESS:
L. OBJ. b RANCH,
OF WAKE.
State Educational Convention.

We invite public attention, and the attention es-
pecially of Common School officers, to the following
card Of the State Superintendent, inviting them to
attend the State Educational Convention to be held
in Warrenton on the 3Oth of next month. Much
good to the Common School cause must result from
these annual meetings of the educators of the chill
Gren of the State; and that every educator
and every connected with our Common Schools
who can make it at all convenient to attend will do
s., Let go up in full force to the approaching
Convention to take counsel together as to the best
means Tor improving Common School system,
and prepared to do all in power to sustain and
encourage the worthy State Superintendent and the
energetic and patriotic officers, who, under his su-
pervson are engaged in this, the gr, aest temporal
work ever confided to our hands, "In union there
is strength" Let the public of the State gen.
orally unite in this work, and shall soon witness
still further and more marked improvements in the
system; and let the people see to it that their SER
wants. those who do their will in other positions
besides those of Common School officers, are not
backward or tardy in their devotion to this great
cause Common Schools and Internal improvements
have at length become the blished policy of the
State and it is fact, that from the time the 70,
began to improve and to take deep root in the popu
lar mind, the latter began also to advance and to
spread out into new fields of promise and of actual
and positive benefit. The two systems are insep.
arabic. Common Schools first, and Internal I'M
provements next; for how shall people, the great
masses of whom uneducated, and uniformed as
to the resources and capabilities of the State, know
how to improve and better their condition?
We trust all the newspapers in the State will
publish Mr.. Wiley's card.
To the Chairmen Of Boards Of Superintendent of
Common Schools, Committees Of Examination, and
all Others interested cticinUy teachers in
Common Schools in North Carolina.
GENTLEMEN Many of you doubtless, are aware
that the State Educational Association of North
Carolina meets in Warrenton on Tuesday the Both
of June next. The occasion, | need hardly say to
you, is one of great importance; and my object in
addressing you is to suggest to you that great
good might be Immediately accomplished by the
presence Of many of you at this meeting. To a
number of you 1t will be inconvenent to attend and
cannot ask you to make great sacrifices for this
purpose but TO all who afford the time and the
MEANS would make special and earnest appeal
that they endeavor to meet me on the occasion re-
ferred to.
The Railroads will charge only half their usual
rates of fare, and the attendants will be entertained
by the people of Warrenton free of charge and as
the pace is accessible and healthy, and the time a
favorable one, l do hope that many of you will
avail yourselves of this opportunity of forming each
others acquaintance, of comparing views and expe-
rience and of counseling together, and with me,
your fellow laborer for the good of the great cause
with which you are connected.
c. H WILEY,
Sup. Com. Schools in n. G.
May 26th, 1857.
w The papers of the State will confer grea
favor by publishing the above at as early day as
possible