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Staunton Vindicator: April 05, 1867 Go To Page : 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |

Virginia Emigrants To Chili
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Summary: Reports that a group of young Virginians, many of whom were in the Confederate service, enlisted in the Chilean Navy because they "could not find employment this free (?) and happy (?) country."

Origin of Article: Norfolk Day Book

A Nail Factory To Be Established In Lynchburg
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Summary: A man from West Virginia intends to build a nail factory in Lynchburg, says the article. The factory is expected to create numerous jobs, but requires an outlay of $175,000 in capital.

Origin of Article: Lynchburg Virginian

A Great Plough
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Summary: Reports that a model of the great Fowler steam plough, which has been use in England for the past ten years, is on display in New Orleans. The machine cost 2,500 pounds to construct and was imported to be tested on the "immense plantations on the banks of the Mississippi."

Glorious News From Connecticut
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Summary: Celebrates the Democratic victories in the recent Connecticut election.

Origin of Article: National Intelligencer

[No Title]
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Summary: Lists the names of those appointed by the Post Master to serve as mail carriers for the next four years, beginning July 1.
(Names in announcement: Uriah N. Warren, A. D. Trotter, James Anderson, S. D. Jones, S. J. Reynolds, Robert Boyd, Robert Boyd, J. W. Burke, J. J. Ennis, E. M. Nuckols, A. G. Tebbets)

[No Title]
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Summary: Contending that the proposal introduced by Thad Stevens on the eve on the last session of Congress has "met with but little sympathy in the House and less in the country at large," the editors express doubt that any bill to confiscate rebel property will ever become law.

Full Text of Article:

The confiscation scheme of Mr. Stevens, advocated by him in a lengthy and carefully proposed speech, before the adjournment of Congress, seems to have met with but little sympathy in the House and less in the country at large. The Radical papers, with but few exceptions, oppose confiscation and we doubt not that Mr. Stevens' last effort on that subject has been made. Our readers, we think, need not worry themselves on this subject, for it is very improbable that it will ever be mooted in Congress again, so little favor did it meet with under Mr. Stevens' manipulation.

Character Of The Negro By An African Explorer
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Summary: The extract asserts that, without the "civilizing" influences of whites, blacks "will soon fall back into barbarism."

Editorial Comment: "M. DuChaillee, in his recent published work, 'Journey to Asbango Land and Further Penetration into Equatorial Africa,' makes the following observations respecting the character of the negro:"

[No Title]
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Summary: The diatribe criticizes Congress for overtaxing whites and appropriating the money "to take care" of blacks.

Origin of Article: Chillicothe (Ohio) Advertiser

Full Text of Article:

The sum total of the doings Congress may be summed up in the following statement. While it is constantly increasingly the taxes of the people to pay. It is constantly oppropriating money to take care of the negroes, and as constantly injuring the business by which the white people have to take care of themselves. It legislates for Africa, not for America. It was elected by a white constituency, but devoted all its time and energy to the blacks. Black is the standard color for "loyalty" -- all negroes are "loyal," but if a man has a white skin, upon his "loyalty," unless he thinks negroes a great deal better than white folks. To hear the Radical leaders talk to judge from their legislation, a stranger would think that their constituents were all negroes and that the Southern States were located in Africa. Chillicothe Ohio Advertiser.

Va. Stay Law Constitutional
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Summary: It is reported that a Circuit Court Judge in Salem has ruled the Stay Law, enacted by the General Assembly in March 1866, constitutional.

Acquisition of Russian America By The United States
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Summary: The story discusses some of the diplomatic consequences of the Americans' pending deal to purchase Alaska, and supplies a variety of related facts about the region.

Origin of Article: Baltimore Sun

Confiscation
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Summary: Until now, relates the article, the "Providence Journal" has endorsed the Reconstruction schemes promulgated by the Radicals, yet even this Republican newspaper describes the proposal to confiscate rebel property as "vindictive" and "remorseless."

Origin of Article: Providence Journal

Editorial Comment: "The Providence Journal (Rep.), which has gone to great lengths in defending Radical men and measures, is compelled to say of Stevens' confiscation scheme:"

[No Title]
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Summary: Decrying Radical efforts to pit southern blacks against southern whites, the article calls on readers to "counteract these mean and devilish influences" by making it known to blacks that Radicals "only want to use them for their party purposes." By contrast, Southern whites "are now and ever have been" the black man's "only friends."

Origin of Article: Lynchburg Republican

Full Text of Article:

The Radicals are making desperate preparations to unite the colored vote of the South in favor of the Radical party. The most wicked appeals to their passions and prejudices are being circulated among them, and every effort made to array them in deadly hostility to the white people in the coming elections. To counteract these mean and devilish influence, the people of the South must keep constantly before the colored people the fact that the Radical party at the North only want to use them for their party purposes, as is fully evidenced by the fact that both in New York and Ohio they have refused to grant them suffrage, and have only given it to them in the South in hatred and revenge on the white man. The Northern people, too, vote the original slave stealers, and brought the African to this country and sold him to our people. We have kept him and civilized and christianized him, and made him what is -- far superior to his own race had [unclear]. The white people of the South are now and ever have been, his only friends, for a black man stands no more chance in the North than spoons do in the reach of Butler. Lynchburg Republican.

Letter From General Beauregard
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Summary: Among the advice given in his correspondence, Beauregard states that, rather than fighting against the imposition of black suffrage, white southerners should accept it and seek to use it "to defeat our adversaries with their own weapon."

Trailer: G. T. Beauregard

Local Items
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Summary: Announces that the Staunton Musical Association will give its first performance during Easter week at the Hall of the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Institution.

Local Items
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Summary: Reports that Col. Bolivar delivered an address entitled "The Scotch Irish of the Valley" at the Staunton Lyceum last Monday. Next Monday, Dr. A. M. Fauntleroy will deliver a speech entitled "Was the Revolution of 1776 a Mistake?"
(Names in announcement: Col. Bolivar, Dr. A. M. Fauntleroy)

Local Items
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Summary: Reports that $600 was "cleared" at the meeting of the Staunton Building Association last Saturday. Thus far, about one hundred shares at ten percent have been sold.

Local Items
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Summary: Rev. John Clark, who was assigned to Staunton at the last meeting of the Baltimore Conference of the Episcopal Church South, began his tenure last Sunday.
(Names in announcement: Rev. John Clark)

Local Items
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Summary: Relates that the Memorial Fair raised $170 last week.

Local Items
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Summary: Reports that someone broke into W. P. Johnson's Tobacco Store last Friday night and stole about $15 worth of tobacco.
(Names in announcement: W. P. Johnson)

Tribute Of Respect
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Summary: Contains a memorial and a series of resolutions passed by the Augusta Fire Company in honor of their fallen colleague, George Paul Schever.
(Names in announcement: W. H. Wilson, C. W. Stafford, Patrick O'Tool, George Paul Schever)

Trailer: W. H. Wilson, C. W. Stafford, Pat. O'Tool

Married
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Summary: On March 27 William L. Ayers, of Goshen Bridge, and Helen, daughter of Andrew S. McLoughlin, dec'd, of Rockbridge County, were married by Rev. Baker.
(Names in announcement: William L. Ayers, Helen McLoughlin, Andrew S. McLoughlin, Rev. Baker, John Kelley)

Married
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Summary: Samuel D. Myers and Maggie J. Runnels were married by Rev. William A. Harris last Thursday.
(Names in announcement: Samuel D. Myers, Maggie J. Runnels, Rev. William A. Harris)

Married
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Summary: On March 25 Leander Wright and Mary Francis Laughlin were married by Rev. Thomas Preston.
(Names in announcement: Leander Wright, Mary Laughlin, Rev. Thomas Preston)

Married
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Summary: On March 28 Alexander Dull and Sarah Francis Livick were married by Rev. Thomas Preston.
(Names in announcement: Alexander Dull, Sarah Francis Livick, Rev. Thomas Preston)

Died
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Summary: David Showalter, a former resident of Augusta County, died in Rockingham County on March 25.
(Names in announcement: David Showalter)

Died
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Summary: On March 26 Thomas Robert Lee, son of William T. and A. M. Herring, died. He was 3 years old.
(Names in announcement: Thomas Robert Lee Herring, William T. Herring, A. M. Herring)