The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-07-26
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1t is impossible to estimate the advantage
of the University Of Virginia to the South
and to this State, in the benefeent effect it
exercises upon the minds and morals of our
youth. 1t is sound, thorough, and liberal in
its instructions. It's rule is wise and Judi
cious--strict without austerity and just with
out being severe SO that, look at this great
school in whatever aspect you may, it pre-
sents something to be admired and applaud
ed. And we do not hesitate to say that, had
the Assembly last winter refused to give the
assistance asked for by this institution, the
injury done to the highest interests of the
State would have been past computation :;
and the Legislature itself would have gone
down to posterity with the just condemnation
OF all cotemporaneous writers. We have
now before us evidence that our ardent advo-
oacy of the claims of the University at that
time, were not without the most solid reasons
Apart from the rare learning and blameless
lives of its accomplished Faculty from
the liberal course of education and the wise
rule of which we have spoken-the evidence
to which we allude would alone convince our
people that the mission of this school is fully
comprehended by the wise and learned men
who adorn its Professional Chairs This nine
feenth century of ours is deeply enamored of
''practical" enterprises; and the quiet think
ers who live IN the seclusion Of the Universe
~ have recently displayed rare appreciation
of public necessity-a great, real, living,
rlamorous public necessity Of the, south
which shows them to be able, in a ''practica"
way, to meet practical" want, to the in
finite satisfaction Of practical men. These
gentlemen have prepared a series of Southern
School Books and we are at last. blessed
with standard texts from such source as to
ensure their success q The introduction Of
these books is Of the first Importance; for if
the songs of a people be of more importance
than their laws, as the means Of controlling
public sentiment, what terms are strong
enough to convey just appreciation of those
vehicles of thought and sentiment combined
which make impressions day by day on youth
full minds--whicb, in one generation, fashion
the moral and intellectual forces that
are to control the destinies of the next!
Perhaps in no country under the sun is
this matter of graver importance than
an this; for here public thought and
public sentiment find a more immediate
expression in the shape of law--towards
which, in all countries, strongly marked opin-
ions and sentiments gravitate-than in any
other; and nowhere, for the reason assigned,
do we require a more enlightened public opin-
ion than here. We do not aspire to see all
classes Of men scholars. We have sesal that
little learning is dangerous thing when
the brain is stimulated and the moral senti-
ments depraved and with the illustration be-
fore US of what can be done by the prepara-
of school books by bad, designing men, we
hail the announcement of this series with un-
speakabs satisfaction 1if5 o. IHn7
1t is well known to all classes of the COM
munity that the anti-slayery society, with
malignant art made publications Of this sort
the vehicles for the propagation Of its creed,
upon deliberate and well considered caleula-
need not be discussed here. The simple fact
answers our purpose, which is to impress up
on our people the vast, rpractical" importance
Of Selling upon upon these books as the. best
friends for their children Is it not written
that we are known by our companions, and
is it not beyond dispute that bad books, writ
ten by bad authors, for bad ends, make. bad
men, trained to the propagation of bad theo-
ries7 The opposite is true in the same de-
gree This being granted, we call upon our
book sellers and our teachers, upon parents
and guardians, upon school Commissioners and
municipal boards for the government of pub
lie instruction to come forward at once to Sc
cure for those under their care and supervl-
sion, these we'll considered books. They will
thus serve the individuals in whom they are
interested, and confer substantial benefit
d benefit beyond computations the rising
generation, and the communities i'll which
they live. 100 ID &J3ia G2O
These books will soon be issued by Messrs
RICHARDSON & Co, of New York, aud will
constitute for their authors monument more
enduring than bronze or marble 81 s-sa % a.
A SupposttiOn.
1t is manifest that the Constitutional
Amendment was carried in Tennessee by
combined force and fraud, as we have already
shown, no quorum ooting, though two
members were preseatl creatures Of the
President" as BRowNLow called them, in