| From the Richmond Sentinel |
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| March 16, 1863 |
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| The Teachers Convention -- Appeal to the
Railroad Companies |
| A meeting of teachers was held
in Petersburg on the 18th instant, to appoint delegates to the
Educational Convention, to be held in Columbia, S. C., on the 28th of
April. Among the resolutions adopted was the one which we give below.
It contains an appeal to the railroad companies to favor the movement,
by allowing free transportation to the delegates. We trust this
reasonable request will be cordially acceded to. Teachers are a
hard-working and invaluable class, who very seldom ask favors and very
seldom get them. In the present instance, their proposed convention is
eminently in the interest of the Confederacy rather than of
themselves. The expense of attendance, at the present hotel rates,
will be heavier than many of them can bear; and unless the railroad
companies, with that public spirit which they have manifested in the
case of Commercial Conventions, and the like, will allow them the courtesy
of their roads, we fear the convention will necessarily be too small
to accomplish its purposes to the general advantage. Here is the
resolution: |
| Resolved, That inasmuch
as we regard the objects of the proposed Convention as vitally
connected with the independence and well-being of the Southern
Confe3deracy, and tending to promote in the highest all, its
industrial interests, we respectfully request the Directors,
Superintendents, and Presidents of Railroads to facilitate its designs
by giving free transportation to its delegates. |
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