Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-10-28
Fall Dividend of school Fund-s1oo, 900.
OFFICE suP'r. Cow. scuoOLs OF N. c.,

OFFICE SUPT. Cow. Schools OF n. u,
Oct IL, 1862.
To the Ctairmen of the Boards Of Superint0ndents
of Com. Schools of tho Seoerat Counties Of North
Carolina.
GENTLEMEN Il am happy to inform you that the
Literary Board met on the 9Th OF this month, ana
agreed to divide among the Counties of the State,
for Common School purposes, the sum of one hun
dred thousand dollars. This is nearly ten thousand
dollars more than any semi-annual dividend ever
made before from the Literary Fund-and this sum
is in part.payment ola dividend and half formerly
withheld.
During the year 1861, only the half of one divid-
end was paid out from the Literary Fund and this
was owing to the great and inevitable pressure made
upon the Treasury of the State from the war sud
denly forced upon our country. This pressure was
| temporary and has been relieved; anG the amount
due to the Counties for School purposes has been
secured, and is now available for their use in the
| method specified by law.
! It was thought that the whole of this balance
would not now be needed but owing to the fact that
School taxes not levied in several Counties, and
the price of everything is enhanced it supposed
that more than the usual dividend of ninety thous-
| and dollars would be necessary to keep up schools
even for the diminished number Of children who will
| be able to attend them.
The amount still due from former dividends will
| be paid out as additions to future distributions as
| our educational wants may require; and in the
meantime the Literary Board is now, as formerly,
] anxious to keep alive our Common School system,
that great nursery of intelligence, energy and pari-
| orism among the masses of our people.
This strict adherence Of our State to its pghted
faith and its determination, under the Divine bless.
| ing to fulfil all its contracts, and to commit no
spoliatons on its former investments for moral ana
| industrial development, have not merely redounded
| to the advancement of society, but have actually
lghtened the financial burdens incident to the times.
North. Carolina has, by her good faith, actually
made money, and prevented the taxes on her people
| from being higher than they are; for, By her de-
termination to meet all her direct promises and i'm
nlied obligations she has created such confidence in
her integrity and resources that she is enabled to
divide the burdens of the war of Independence with
| future and more prosperous generations. Her fin
aacIa character is the highest in beloved Con-
| federacy-and her bonds and promises to pay are
not only easily circulated but actually command a
high premium over other issues of the kind
Let US then be grateful to kind Providence that
enabled at this crisis not merely to furnish
means for the education Of all our children, and
thus to lay broad and deep the foundations Of moral
| powerful that IN doing we enhancing the
| pecuniary credit of the State and enabling her to
| draw on that future for which are fighting and
suffering for the larger part Of the expenses Of the
struggle for freedom.
| The spectacle which our beloved old Common
wealth presents in this day of darkness and of trial
is well calculated to fill the heart of every true
son with emotions of gratitude to that benefcent
Being who has given US this goody land for her
J itage.
| She ranks among the foremost in the number en-
| durance and courage of the soldiers she has con-
tributed to the second war for independence-She is
! foremost in voluntary contributions to the common
cause, first in financial credit and in the very midst
! of this tremendous shock, tcnderiy and generously
providing for the moral training OF all her children
| the hope, under God, of the future
Let US, for our encouragement look on this
brighter side Of our AFFAIRS and if we would secure
the real greatness and happiness of that future for
! which we are making such immense sacrifices, let
us exert every energy to train the hearts and minds
OF the young to true appreciation of the interests
| for which we are contending. Are our people crim-
soning with their blood the whole soil of continent
to be inherited by too ignorant and brutalized
to value or hold the liberties so dearly bought?
In every struggle mere brute force is sure to
| yield in the end before moral power; and though
our enemies outnumber us IN soldiers and in NUM-
| tons of war, we need never fear the result well
assured that as long as there are men and women
able to understand and appreciate just and noble
cause, and no longer, there will be brave and will
! ling soldiers to defend it. While this continues,
freedoms battle "bequeathed from bleeding sire to
son, will surely triumph at last and triumph
! glorousy.
| Then let us who have the care of the young heart
and mind of this new Republic, remember that our
camp of instruction is the most important all and
let US hum6y and earnestly invoke Divine guidance
in efforts to prepare future generation to maintain
the privileges achieved by the present and to gain
all that the present is unable to accomplish
| Let the schools be kept open-ind teachers in
females and in others unable serve their country
more effectually in different way-and with hum
BILE trust in God, let not Galter for moment In
| the great work before u.s.
With much respect, am your friend and servant,
G. Fl. WILEY,
Sup. Com. Schools for the State.