Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1863-03-09
10 the Friends of Eaucaticn.

We ask attention to the following circular
from the State Educational Association of
North Carolina. The object proposed is one
Of vilst moment to the people Of the Confsd-
eracy, and it is desirable that the Conyen-
ton. at Columbia be- we'll attended:
RALEieH, NoRrH CAROLINA,
JanuaTy 10Th, 1868.
SIR At the last nnual. meeting of the
State Educational Association of North Caro-.
Ina, held in the town of Lincolnton, on the
l4th and 18th of October last, the following
resolutions was unanimously adopted:
RESOLVED, That this Association recon-
mend a general Convention of the teachers of
the Confederate States TO be held at
on-- 1868 TO take into consideration the
best means for supplying the text books for
schools and colleges, for uniting their efforts
Tor the advancement of the cause of education
IN the Confeaeracy; and that the Executive
Committee of the Association be directed
to correspond with teachers in the various
States on the subject.
We have thought it would facilitate the
accomplishment of the object of the above
resolution, to suggest a time and place for the
holding of the Convention referred to; and
we accordingly recommend that the meeting
take place in Columbia, South Carolina, on
Thursday, April 18th. at 8 o'clock, p. NJ.
The importance of this movement will be
readily appreciated by every friend of our be-
loved country and we feel sure that no class
of persons can be more useful in achieving,
under God, the independence of a nation,
than those who are engaged in training the
hearts and minds Of the ,oung.
The integrity ofsociety itself demands that
{ at least those of our text books which relate
to moral and political science should not be
] prepared by persons who hold opinions in
conflict with those on which our institutions
are based and if our schools are ever to be
purged Of the semi, inidel literature of the
9 world, We will never have a better opportu-
nifty than the present for the commencement
of this good work.
We would add, in addition, that our ma.
tional nemies arraign US at the bar Of the
t civilized world, as a people of inferior NOR
!. al development and capability and every
consideration which can appeal to our pride
t to our patriotism and to our manhood, as
we'll as to our sense of duty to God and tx
0 our fellow men, should prompt those who
e labor in the moral domain, to be up and do
t ing.
e We cannot afford to permit any exigenc,
e 8hASo 80 III tOSo "a AhS oROAO G
e to arrest our efforts i'll behalf of those sagen
y cies, which, next to religion, do most to pro
i mote the welfare of society , and We know
e that if the rising generation is properly in
structed, the lapse OF lime will, by the bless
" ings Of Providence, bat insure that indepen
j. dence for which those, who are now on th
oe slageo of action, are SO heroically co~ntendins
r Believing these views meet with you
ID hearty concurrence, e respectfully and earl
E estly invite you to meet us in council at II
IF time and place specified above, fully belle
s. ing that, by the Divine favor, we may TIT
is be enabled to lay, in this day Of trial, tt
f. foundation of a work which will ,edour
.Hn to tsse enar and asnqaferitv of our non
se, country. With much respect,
In We are truly youts,
ID c. II. WILEY,
he Supt. of Com. Schools of n. @.
we j.. D. CAMPBELL,
Ed. N. G. Journ4l of Education.
, WILLIE j. PALMER, T.
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