Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-08-03

present can boast of larger subscription list than
at any former period Its circulation is not cen
fined within the narrow limits of any defined To-
califg, bat is diffused generally throughout the
Valley and the far West
As an advertising medium, lie columns plainly
show how it is appreciated by adiscerning public.
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The Congress Of the United States, after
endeayoring to adjourn, subject to calls for
assembling other than that of the Presi-
dent, did at last adjourn sine dc, on Satur-
day 29th nit. We are sure. that the conser-
vatives of the whole country rejoice that this
body of men, whose whole course Of legisla-
ton, from the first Monday in December last
to July 2sth, has had but one single object
in view, the retention Of power in the hands
Of the Radical Republicans, has adjourned
without day.
They have sought in every possible way
to harrass the people Of the South with a
view to political capital, and have opposed,
assailed and abused the President in his en-
sdeavors to restore the country to its former
prosperous condition, and to preserve the
Constitution intact, and all to secure the re-
turn of radical majority to Congress. Find
ing that at every turn, they have been met
by the President, holding aloft the banner of
the Union and the Constitution, and rally
ing around him the patriot masses Of the
country, they have betaken themselves to
other fields to speak, write and work for rad
zeal success. Let loose upon the Northern
people, with all their retainers, they will IN
'troduce into the canvass in their respective
States an unwonted excitement, and will, by
the aid of the distorted and false testimony
before the q Reconstruction Committee" the
lying reports of mercenary scribblers through
out the South, and the base cooperation of
Jack Hamilton, ct i'd onane genus, endeayor
TO fire the already excited Northern mind
with rage and malice, to which their exhibi-
ton in Congress of these noble @ attributes
has been but feeble child's play.
They will be met, however, by men who
endorse the Johnsonian policy, who really
love their country and revere the Constitu-
ton, and who will, with unspairing hand,
expose their vile course in Congress, and
paint in unmistakable colors Oh the rctina of
the Northern eye the grossly demonstrations
al acts of the last National Legislature. If
the Northern people. can be brought to look
without prejudice upon the acts Of the now
dominant faction, their fate is sealed. At
any rate we shah hope for the success of the
men who sympathize with the policy Of
President johnson, and who would preserve
the Constitution ndrestore the Union, with
the equality Of the States unimpaired
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We are glad to see that an important
movement is being made, by Richardson &
Co., Publishers, Of New York, in the way
of publishing q series of text books to be
called the g Southern University Series. p
The authors are all Southern men, mostly
Professors in the University Of Virginia
A series of books which will be free from the
erroneous political teachings Of the Northern
text books, nov so much in use and the his
torical inaccuracies in which they abound, is
much needed and should be heartily welcomed
in the South, and we are satisfied that works
emanating from members of the able faculty of
the University OF Va, will need no further
communication to Southern teachers and pa
rents.
Among the number proposed to be pub
lished are the following q The Southern
Elementary Speller," Southern Pictorial
first, second, third, fourth and fifth readers"
by an experienced educationist and revised
by Geo. L. Holmes. Professor of History
and General Literature, University Of Va.
4" An Elementary English Gramnner, for
the use Of Schools" and GA Chronological
History Of the United States Of North Amer
ica," by Prof. Holmes.
8 A Grammar in French" in two parts,
s" A French Reader for Beginners" and A
French Reader for Schools and Colleges"
by NJ. Schele De We're, Professor of Modern
Languages, University Of Va.
."Outlines of Latin Grammar" and CA
Progressive Latin Reader" by Basil L. Gil
derslceye, Professor of Ancient Languages,
University of va.
A series Of Arithmetics and u series of
Higher Text Books in Mathematics, in all
seven, by Chas. S. Venable, Professor of
Mathematics, University Of Va.
ri We trust, when these books are published
they will be generally introduced in South
ern Schools and Colleges.
The Radicals resort to every means to in
crease their strength One of their latest
maneuvres was to pass several resolutions
expressing sympathy with the Fenians cap
tured by the Canadians, and also those in