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To the Friends of Education.
We publish below, a ciroular addressed to
thu teachers and friends of education through
out the Confederate States, by the State, Edu
cational Association of N. Caroljna,!ipig that
4oh one who may see it, will consider it as
s?nt especially to himself, and that all who can
will be present at the proposed meeting.
All newspapers in the Confederacy that are
disposed to aid in advancing this great cause,
are requested to publish this circular, and call
attention to its object.
Raleigh, N. C,
January 12th, 1863.
Sir :
At the last annual meeting of the State Ed
cational Association of North Carolina, held in
the town of Lincoln ton, on the 14th and 15th
of October last, the following resolution was
unanimonsly adopted :
Resolved, That this Association recommend
general Convention ot the teachers of the
Confederate States, to be held at on
lSfj3,to takvinto consideration the best means
f.r Kupplyiug the necessary text books for
school m and colleges, and for uniting their ef
Wts for the advancement of the caue of edu
cmion in the Confederacy ; and that the Exec
w:ive Committee of the Association be directed
to correspond with teachers in the various
Sut on the subject.
VY hve thought it would t.tcilitate the ac
complishment of the object of the above reso
lution, to suggest a time and place for the hold
in of th Convention referred to ; and we ac
cordingly recommend that the meeting take
place in Columbia, South Carolina, on Tues
day April 23th, at 8 o'clock, P. M.
Tha importance ot this movement will be
readfly appreciated by every oae in our beloved
country ; and we feel sure that no class of per
sons can be more useful in achieving, under,
God, the independence of & nation, than those
vho are engaged in training the hearts and
and miuda of the young.
Th integrity of society itself demands that
at least hosa of our text books which relate to
moral and political science should not be pre
pared 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-infidel literature of the world, we will
never have a better opportunity than the pres
ent for the commencement of this good work.
We would add in addition, that oar national
enemies arraing us at the bar of the civilized
world as a people of inferior moral develop
ment and capability and every consideration
which can appeal to bur pride, to our patriot
ism and to our manhood, a well a to our
enie of duty to God and to our fellow men,
should prompt those who labor in the moral
domain to be up and doing.
We cannot afford to permit any exigency
which our vindictive foes can bring upon us,to
arrest our efforts in behalf of those agencies
which, next to religion, do most to prompt the
welfare of society ; and we kuow that if the
rising generation is properly instructed, the
lapse of time will, Vy the blessing of Provi
dence, but insure that independence for which
those who are now on the stage of action, " are
so heroically contending. ; ; '
Believing that these viewa meet with .your
hearty concurrence,we" respectfully and earn
estly invite you to meet as in council at the
time and place specified above, fully believing
that, by Divine favor, we may thus be enabled
to lay, m this day of trial the foundation of a
work which will redound to the honor and
prosperity of our noble country.
. With much respect, :
we are truly, yours, r
C. H. WILEY", ,
SuPt. of Common Schools of N. C.
J.B.CAMBELL,
. N. C: Journal ofEducation.
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. The Richmond Whig of yesterday says : '
The Exemption tJUl was passed by tbe Senate
yesterday. As it is quite lengthy, and has to
undergo the revision of the Honse of Repre
sentatives, vve deem it unneccessary to occupy
space by publishing il in full. Its provissions
difTer from those of the act oliast session, in
several particulars.. .The, clause relative to the
exemption of those unfit for service in the field
provides that their bbdUyMncapacity shall be
"assertained by a surgeon of t he army who is
not a resident of the partoi the country .from
which those he is called upon to examine may
have come." It aUo provide? that persons so
examined and declared unfit for duty shall
not be afterwards subject to be again examin
ed raid enrolled." How many tiir.es ha vp they,
been examined already? -
The cUuse exempting the judicial and -executive
officers of State Governments specifical
ly exempts the Judges of the supreme,District,
Superior, Citcuit and Probate Court?, the Chan
cellors of State Courts, and Sheriff, and ex
cludes Justices of the Peace.
Persons appointed by the officers of the Ex.
ecutive Departments, since the 15th April, 18
62, and who were liable to military service
when appointed, are excluded from exemp
tion.
Presidents or conductors of any railroad
company, or train, who fail, neglect, or refuse
to furnish seats or drinking water to sick and
wounded soldiers, not to be exempted.
'One editor of each newspaper now being
published, and such journey men printers, engi
neers, pressmen, stenographic reporters and
mailing clerks as the editor or proprietor there
of may certify upon oath to be indispensable
for conducting the publication," are to be ex
empted. Manufacturers of various classes specified,
are exempted on condition that the manufac
tured articles shall be sold at a net profit not
exceeding thirty pr cent, per annum on the
n6t capital inve&led.
Two new clauses relative to the police of
slaves, and to the protection of families not less
than ten in number on any tarm, are embrac
ed in the bill. They were published in full
as adopted in the report of the Senate proceed
ings, a few days ago.
These are tbe principle changes made in the
Exemption Act passed at the last session.
An Abolitionist for Peace.
A few days.since, Senator Conway, of Kan
sas, one of the most ultra, as well as one of
the ablest, of the Republican members of Con
gress, made a strong speech in favor of peace
and the stopping of the war. The speech is
said to have the approval of Gen. Anderson,
Charles Sumner, W. Philips, Horace Gr6eley
and other leading Abolitionists, who held a
caucus in Washington just before it was deliv
ered, ll is a very important and significant
demonstration.
Mr. Conway in his speech announced him
self as opposed to re-anion. He says :
"I am not in favor of restoring the constitu
ti onal relation of the slaveholders to the Union
nor of the war to that end. ,1 have never ak
lowed myself to indulge in that superstitious
idolatry of the Union so prevalent among sim
pie but honest people, nor the political cant
about the Union so prevalent among.dishonest
ones
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. That the Sonth had establishhd its indepen
dence, he boldly declared, saying :
Tbe war between the North and South for
the past two years has made a revolution. It
has substituted ia the South another Govern
ment for ihe Union. "This is the fact, and the
fact in such a matter is the important thing lech
nicality in a questioti of this kind cannot stand
The war has utterly dssolved the connection
between the North and the Svnith, and renders
them separate and independent powers in the
world." s '
Mr. Coriway conclude by announcing : that
the true policy of the North is to terminate the
war at once, and he urges both houses tot Con
gress to adopt the following resolutions :
Resolved, by the House of Representatives.
That the Executive be and he is hereby request
ed to issue a' general order to alj commanders
of forces in the several " military '-departments
of the. United States to discontinue " offensive
operation's against the enemy and to act for the
future entirely on. the defensive. , . A i
Resolved, That the Executive be and he is
further, requested to enter into negotiations
with the auihorities of the Confederate States
with reference' to a cessation 'of hostilities, based
on the following propositions 'ilRectfghitlbtf
of tbe ind ependencs'of : the Confederate States.
2;' A uniform system of. duties . y pons,. import.
3. Pree trade between the two States.. 4. Free
navigation of the Mississippi llfver. " :'MutU.
m adbgtibtf of the 'Monrbe 'ortlFinH' v
The Distress Among the Cotton Operatives of
trance xne French correspondent of the Spec
tatbr gives a rather startling account of the d is
tress among the cotton operatives of France,
and Ihe measures adopted for their relief. He
says : - ,. . ; .
One may form an idea of the number of
families doomed to starvation by reflecting
that in the department of the Seine Inferieure
alone, the coUon trade sets in motion more
than the fourth part of the whole number of
spindles that are w oi ked all over France. Day
after day, night alter night, the country is
scoured by bands of unfortunate people who
creep along from door to door, asking for
bread and shelter. Railway stations are be
seigeiby pt-or half naked children,, with eman
cipated faces, imploring the assistance of the
traveler. All this misery is to be seen. How
much more affecting still the unseen distress of
those who had rathei die than beg; and of
those too, who having either to attend au aged
parent or to r.urse a baby, are as it were, im
prisoned in their wretched dwellings. There:
are, in the Seine Inferieure,2.200,000 swindles,
14.000 looms. 32 chintz manufacturers, and f4-
000 hand looms. Well, in ordinary times.the 1
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manufacturers employ 50.000 working men.
Now a-days they emplov scarcely 20.000.
Consequently, 30.000 are out of work.
Each hand loom must occupy a man and a
woman or child ; m ail, 128,000 hands. Since
the crisis, five weavers out, of six are still for
want of work ; in other worda, there are about
102.000 veaers in a state of starvation. Nor
do those fare much better whose work is. either
directly or indirectly, connected wivh the man
uiactuers; so xnac itie numoer oi persons m
utter destitution round Rouen is reckoned at
a60,000. As the night comes on, all the bye
streets begin to swarm with famished spectres.
In the surrounding country, little boys wander
up anc oown in quest ot a few potatoes, borne
times they are obliged to go so far in order to
get them that they cannot come back home
until the day after. In many a ''commune,"
withered leaves are burnt in lieu ot wood or
coals. No bed, no linen, are to be found there.
The children sleep on o bit of rotten straw, the
7aren ts on a. n!nlr RiAcnvtntinnG hava KtAAn
J" " m . U VVCV I W J V t V U J W "- w
raised every where in aid of a general relief
iuuu auu me wnoie amount ot tne sums nimer
to collected is 600,000f. (24,000.)
IMPBESSMkNTS...
The House of Representatives has passed a bill
to regulate tbe impressment of private property
for public use. The bill received a general sup
port in the House, and we presame is such as the
interests of thev Government and people demand.
But it hangs fire in the Senate. At least,we hear
of no action being taken upon it in that body.
If Honorable Senators were aware of the univer
sal and extreme dissatisfaction which the present
arbitrary system excites throughout the country,
they would hasten to act. The present system is
the essence ot tyranny. An officer in tbe Commis
sary or Quartermaster's Department took it upon
himself, without any authority of law, to assess
the valne of everv man's prouertv. and he took
care to fix the assessment at about half the man
ket price. "With this assessment in pocket, the
Government agents have been scouring the coun
try and seizing the property of individuals at this
arbitrary valuation. We learn from a curt epistl9
of President Davis to the House ot Representatives
that no seizure and confiscation of the property of
citizens has been made by hia order. We might
infer that, as Ihe proceeding was had without his
order it was also without his approbation ; if we
did not know the proceeding was every day taking
place by persons claiming to be agents of the (xov
ernment. '
' But the whole proceeding is illeg&l, iniquituons
and oppressive. It assimilates our Government to
the horrible Yankee despetism against which we
are waging war. The system is as little justified
by necessity, as law and by justice. It is a slander
on, the people of this State, and we believe of eve
ry other, to say that force is necessary to make
them furnish supplies to the army. They are wil
ling to sell at a fair price,in such money as the gov
eminent ha., all they can spare, for the use of our
armies. What they complain of; what they have a
right to complain of and have a right to resist by
force, if they choose, is that a clerk in Richmond,
should undertake to assess their property , at half
its worth, and authorize its seizure and confisca
tion at that rate. We have never heard of, any of
the assessors fixing the " pri e of their own pro
ducts at these depreciated values. v ;;. ;
We beg the Senate to take early. action on this
bill. ' More may be lost to the common cauio by ja
system of illegality and injustice, than can be gain
ed by saving a few dollars in Uonteaerate noies.
nature false in its development from the begin
ning of time, I would have changed my public,
conduct also. But my convictions did not
change. I thought that if it was disuaioi on the
14th of April it was equally disunion cn tha
15th and at all times. Believing this, I could
not as an honest man, a Union man and a t pa
triot lend an active support to the war and 1
did not. I had rather my right arm wer
struck from its socket and cast into eternal,
rendings than with my convictions to have thus
defiled my soul with the guilt of moral per
jury. Sir i was not taught in that school which
proclaims that "all is fair in politics." I loath,
abhor and detest the execrable maxim. 1
stamp upon it. No States can endure a single
generation whose public men practice it. Who
ever teaches it is n corrupter of youth. What
we most want in these times and at all - times
is honest and independent public men. That
man who is dishonest in politics is not honest
at heart in anything,and sometimes moral cowi
ardice is dishonesty. Do right and trust to
God and truth and the people. Perish ofHce per
ish life itaelfbut do the thing that is right and
do it like a man. I did it. Certainly sir I could
not doubt what h e must suffer who dare dy
the opinions and the passions, not to say ths
madnesss of twenty m illions of people. Had
I not read history ? Did 1 not "know human
nature But I appealed to time and right
nobly hath the avenger answered me.
I did not support the war and to-day I bless
God that not tbe smell of so much as one drop
of its blood is upon niy garments. Sir, I cn-.
sure no brave man who rushed patriotically
into this war, neither will I quarrel with any
one here or elsewhere who gave it his honest
support. Had their convictions been mine, J,
too, would doubtless have done as they did.
With my convictions I could not.
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?Aj Nobm SENTiMB:HT.he jategreat speech'
of C. L. Valfaridigharn contains the. following
passage, worthy of commemorat ion and lm it-
ation. " r-' v
"These were my cenvictions on the 14th of
April, xiaa i cnangea tnem on pei;ioin.wnen
I read the President's Drbclamatioii .; and
known that 1 had beeh wrong all my Iife:anB
that tX history was a fable ' arid alt hnman
W here Does tub Monet Go? The Nov?
York Caucasian comments on this query, as
often heard at the North, in the following msn ;
ner. ' . ; :
" Where does the money ' go ?" asks th ;'
honest working man, as he sees the huge
amounts ordered by the Committee ofthe Sen
ate and House to be disbursed by the War
Department. My fellow laborer have yon"
ever heard of one Mr. French an iron-clad,
bigh pressure Abolitionist whose good lady, -one
Mrs. French, a year ago embraced at
Port Royal, a score or two of black greasy
wen ches in the street in broad noon day and
hailed them ,her dear sisters?" Well,Mr. and
Mrs. French have been sine the eventful data
when Mrs. French landed at the negro -depart
ment, teaching the little niggers to sing. "glory
hallelujah." The exact number of dimin
utive ebonies which have compassed the task
is officially set down at 100 and the little Hem
of a bill against Uncle Sam who is very liberal
now, as he grinds out his money by steam, is
$xuu, uuu lor leacning me unit juinsni.
Think of it taxpayers 11200,000 for teach
ing little niggers, and the little white children '
of the poor soldiers starving because the Sec
retary ot the Treasury cannot pay their fathers
for the past eight months' service s ia righting
for the nigger. 'Ah ha, about the black tymv
phs of Beaufort, nigger sumfin now a days -bless
de Lor white gal no whar yah ! yah! yah! ,
i?at here is where the money goes my white
friend lo pay for a negro war. Bend to jomt
task, put your shoulder to the wheel work till -
your heart sweats blood. Water the - earth
like dew with big drops which rcll from your
toil wrinkled brow ; your fats is. to be taxed
enormously for a nigger war ; and pay besides 1
thousands of millions for nigger freedom.
Who allotted this task, my honest working
man ? Abraham Lincoln lakes the response
bility. Taxation is slavery. Abraham Lincoln .
enslaves the. white man, for the purpose of
imnosinc so called treedom .upon tbe negro,
Abraham Lincoln degrade? his own race by
lifting up the "negro to its level and yokes
not only the. present generation but the future : -J
into a more calling servitude tr.an ever cursed
the Caucasian race since Adam's time. ,
Tbe slowest Stage of -Hnman Desradn !
Ttiou and Dunonor..wr, ''r-vl
One at least of-the yankee papera has a just
appreciation, of the infamy of thelatftOjenHsifc;-v
i ,W say the project is a degradingVbne-
which will make our latest posterity blush sloV;
us that we bad so little 'manhood in us as to j ;
call to our aid on the field of mrtaV strif ior. ' .
the 'defense of thel'and. of the free and 1the ;t ' '
home of the bfivea race of inferiors to dor
for us what we confessedly, -by adopting suebe
a measure,- have not the spirit energy and tris !
doaiito effect for ourselves. Truly the: t mania
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wnOrCOnCOCVe,0. auu ii,uu vfu vauvu 1
It be saidito have reached the lowesjr cl--ac c v
human desradatton and duhoaer. : , .
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