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oO uot, We -" III pO NiO"h hSV.
page 2s, Same Document.)
when the people are ignorant they
will never feel rich enough to con-
tribute u large State fund for educa
ton; and, above all, they will not be
able to manage efficiently system of
popular instruction.
page 20, Same Document.)
''If we neglect the duties of the
hour, we are sowing ruin for the
future"
page 80, Same Document.)
'.God, in His righteousness, has
chastaned, not destroyed US. He has
kept up our educational system dur
ing the tremendous trials through
which we have passed. He has kept
alive vigorous spirit of education,
and has preserved for us sufficient
means fer safely bridging the pecun-
iary straits that now lie before us,
and for carrying our beneficent in
stitutions in perfect order to the pros
porous shores beyond. If we are wise
we will be benefited by our trials;
and no doubt we will see the day
when we will rejoice that we expend-
ed much of the principal of our school
fund as we'll for what we accomplish
ed as for the fact that, when able, we
had to resort to annual taxes"
QS69-'70, Doc. No. l, Page 5, by Gov.
Holden.)
Il cannot too earnestly urge upon
the General Assembly the Importance
of sustaining the free public schools.
Every hope for education depends on
the education Of the masses. Taxes
for such purpose should be cheerfully
paid. This is a subject upon which
we all can agree. We can all unite in
earnest efforts to educate the rising
generation, and thus make the State
powerful and respected through the
intelligence and general knowledge
which will characterize its people,"
QS7O-1, Doc. No. l, Page s, by Gov.
Holden.)
Cup to the commencement of the
late war, North Carolina had the best
system of schools of any State South
of the Potomac. In former days the
leading public men of all parties We'd
with each other in caring for and pro-
noting the education of all the chill
dren. Would that those days would
return. Our present system is in its
infancy, is poorly endowed, and has
to contend with many difficulties.
We should not despond in the prose-
cution Of this good work. Every man
and woman who loves North Carolina
should lend helping hand to this
cause. 1t is vain to hope that the
rising and coming generations will
govern themselves properly, and
guard and maintain their liberties, if
they are deprived of the advantages
Of education and allowed to grow up
in Ignorance.
QS71-'2, Doc. No. l, Page -. by Gov.
Caldwell)
NO people can be prosperous or
happy who are bound in the chains of
ignorance, and who have not facilities
for bursting asundcr the fetters which
dwarf their minds and cripple all the
nobler faculties of their nature. Go
to work, then, gentlemen, and resolve
that every child in the State shall be
| taught to read and write-that those
who are not able to educate them
selves shall be educated by the State
that in the next decade every per-
son between the ages OF 10 and 90
years, who is of sound miud, shall be
able to read the Word of God. and the
| Constitution and laws of the country.
Fear not to levy tribute for this
glorious cause. 1t will be like bread
cast upon the waters. Thou shalt find
it after many days"
doc. No. 6, Page p
..The character of State depends
upon the individuals who compose it.
The idea of great and prosperous
State can be predicated only upon the
idea OF an honest, intelligent and en-
lighteped people. We are SO much
the creatures of outward influences,
so formed and moulded by the educa.
tion which we receive, that if We
knew what would be done for educa.
tion in the State during the next hal
century we could predict what the
State itself would become at the end
of that time.
If education is TO be fosteTed; il
! wise and efficient system of public
instruction is to be built up and main