The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1863-12-04
State Teachers Association.

BATH, NOV. 20, loO3.
The annual meeting of the State Teachers
Association assembled at the City Hall in this
city, at l-2 o'clock, and was called to or.
der by the President, Hon. f. p. Weston,
State Superintendent Of Schools. Prayer
was offered by Rev. DR.. Sheldon of Bath.
An appropriate address was made by the
Mayor, Hon. Israel Putnam, rendering tho
hospitalties Of the citizens, and bidding the
members of tho convention cordial wei.
come to tho city and the homes which were
happy to receive them.
The President briefly responded on behalf
of tho convention. ,.-...
The work Of enrolling the members and
the appointment Of necessary committees
was promptly dispatched. Ono Of the COM
mittees. five gentlemen and five ladies, was
raised to report on the following proposition
OF the President:
AN APrEAL TO PARIoTIc TEACHERS AND PUPILS
IN MAINE.
While you are pursuing quietly the pleasant
labors of the school-room, your brothers and
friends In the service Of their country are ex-
posed to many hardships on the tented field, or
are languishng in prisons and hospitals. While
they are doing and suffering SO nobly to maintain
for us our schools and other free institutions,
can we do anything, rs teachers and pupils In
those schools, to relieve their sufferngs or
minister to their comforti ask your atten-
ton to the following method Of united action
to secure this object.
Let every teacher in the State organize in
his school q company Of the SCHOLARS PArRI-
OTIc LEAGUE.
The following are the general features Of the
organization:
/. Each school Is entitled to furnish one
company, with its teacher, or one OF It's teach
ers, rs Captain. A company clerk and other
necessary officers may be chosen from the mem-
bers Of the school.
2 The companies Of each town shall consti.
tute regiment; and one of the school COM
mittee or some other suitable person, shall be
elected by the company officers rs Colonel.
g. Members Of any academy or private school
are invited to enroll themselves as battalion,
under their teacher, as commander, and join
the regiment in the town where their school Is
located.
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large division Of county, shall constitute
brigade, and the whole number Of brigades
shall constitute the Maine Division Of the
Scholars Patriotic League.
CONDITIONS OF MEMBERSHIP. list. Every
member of the League shall be Volunteer
No conscripts are desired in this organization.
ID. Any person OF the legal school age, may
become member of the company in the dis
trict where he resides. whether attending school
or not, by paying admission fec OF FIVE cents,
and the same sum ut each quarterly meeting,
SO long as he chooses to remain q member.
Sd. All money paid for this purpose shall be
sent by the Captains Of the several companies.
to the Colonies of the respective regiments.
who shall give receipts for the same and for
ward 1t Immediately to the treasurer OF the Di-
vision, or State League, Mr.. Eben Steele, OF
Portland, who shall keep and publish an exact
account Of the same, in the League Record.
A. The funds received from the several COM
panics of the Patriotic League shall be divided
equally between the two great agencies for the
relief of suffering soldiers viz, the Sanitary
Commission and the Christian Commission, and
shall DO used solely for the benefit OF Maine
soldiers.
5. Each Captain shall call meeting of his
company rs often as he may think proper, to
explain the nature OF the organization. and to
awaken an interest in its objects and once in
q quarter all the companies In town will be In.
vited To meet in regiments, to be addressed by
the Colonel commanding, and other persons
whom he may invite for that purpose, upon
subjects appropriate TO the OCCASION; such rs
patriotism, temperance, and the duties Of the
young as citizens of the Great Republic.
1t is suggested that the quarterly meetings
bc held on Thanksgiving day; Washngtons
birthday (22d Of February; the day Of the
annual Fast. and the Fourth Of July.
O. Every school that shall organize compa-
ny Of tho Patriotic League, shall receive on
application of its Captain, with letter stamp
enclosed to the publisher Of the Maine Teacher.
Mr.. Brown Thurston. of Portland, q copy Of
the printed rules OF the League, with sugges-
tions for the management Of tho companies.
Will the friends Of the country and Of our
brave and suffering soldiers aid US in this pat
riotic cntcrprisef
In behalf o fthc SCHOLARS PATRIorIc LEAGUE.
EDWARD p. WESTON,
Superintendent Of Common Schools.
Gorham, Nov. 20, 1862
The convention adjourned till the
EVENING SEssioS.-Praycr was offered at
the opening Of tho evening service by Rev.
Mr.. Matthews OF Bath.
The lecture of the President was an able
and interesting presentation Of tho EXTREMES
OF EDUCATION. This tendency to extremes is
every where Sccn-iu politics, religion aud