Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1830-03-25
,yyCHBURG. MARCH 25, 1880.
QUERIES.
a3j,s.,sa to the Editor Of The Na:heiHe Repub.
iican.

=, mi FRYE agent in political matters ; but
mat YOU both thiok and ACT with AMI ar par
10 Aud your location. during The late Pres,
sI.,,iaI renvass. rs CHIEF guard OF the door that
lad 70 the Lions den, has rendered you an
o,ect of some oote-which. (by the was Of q
.tisoer in your private ear,) yoo never could
have been. had you been left TO work your
way to disnclion by the vigor Of your pen
your Identification with party. and the con-
sennent familiarity and confidence existing
,s,seen you and is chief men, will enable you,
in all probability, to answer satisfactorily the
queries winch we proceed 10 PROFOUND 10 you
| WHY did Joel Parish, Inc deiaulting Cash
,sr nj the Bank Of Nishv lie, and chief cerlih
c,te.man of Gen Jackson, whenever the
wb,e.wasa;ng committee needraa ceriifc ate.
Ian, n nriyate boox for tn. benefit Of persons
m whom he chose TO advance large sums, when
hstoew that those persons had no money Of
their own III bank F.!
D Why when his defalcation was discover
- did he refuse to exhibit his private hook 7
2. Way did The Legislature Of Tennessee
hermit such bold con,umacy TO go unpunished?
q. Was this insult to their authority passed
over in silence because certain hints were
,hroyn out that the persons whose names were
on that private book, as large deptors, must not
be opposed, for political reasons
g. Was not the money ihis uBwarrantabiy
nb,tracted iro II the Bank drawn by some of
n no IN .Eh itn was btnu
mii,ee, aud devoted to eIeetionepring purposes 7
g. Was no, its repay mem guaranteed ~ the
verbs pieIges Of some other members of
that committee
T. Was not a greater man tat least one who
holds a n,ore con'picuou, sta,aiion) tina" either
oftio memuers OF sna, committee, spprised Of
these proceedings; and did he not give J. the
sanction Of bis acquiesence
g. Has not a age por ION Of the money
thus Illegally ani dishonesty drawn from the
vaults Of the 3 nix, been lately returned, nobo.
d. knows how, or by whom
g. Ia short, was not IN ,ney needed, for pur
poses Of briber, aud corruption by your white
washing committee was il no, furnished by
Joel Parish, on his private responsibility. Il on
the security oil the verbal pledges of the mem.
bers If that committee was il not applied to
elec,ieneerIng purposes; was no, the private
book withheld from viaW. because certain
names contained in il must not be exposed ::
did no, the Legislature cease to demand the
book, soon as This fact was made known
10 them and has no, portion ofthe missing
money been lately received from Washington
city
When you answer these questions, we shall
have a few others ready for yon.
400
RetrenehmeM in Earnest We copy
nom the proceedings OF the House of Repre-
senia,ives the subjoinsd resolutions. from which
hwould seem that there is al len 9Th some pros
peel tina that 'dy will enter with earnestness
on the work Of retrenchment in the expenditure
ofthe government, about which which we have
heard so much, and seen SO little. Importa.,
asthe series OF resolutions, offered by MIR
Forward are admitted to be, yet the, yield in
interest to that Submitted by Mr.. McDuiie
The length to which the sessions of Congress
have been protracted of late years by the
e1cOethe, toqasndi which seems 10 infesi
50 many members, who imagine that
their election 20 Congress converts them, by
some instantaneous and magic al process, from
Clodlole7 ito Cieeros, is an evil Of great mag
nliade-much greater, indeed. than is involved
IN any consideration OF the dollars and cents
Sh'c. hey draw from the public treasury-aud
II ought 10 be corrected. YET this will be
very difficult task to accomplish. The only
mode by which il can be eifec ed is that indica-
ted by the resolution of Mr.. McDuife But
who Is so sangnne as 10 believe that any act
OF legislation will grow OUT of it 7 We confess
that we shall lie most agreeably disappointed
h'he only purpose it serves be not to furnish
peg wherein some dozen two of ten hour de
e's'"a''ry hara ugues may be hung. adding a
cubt 10 the seIf.conceit of,hose who make
'nem, and tending much to the edifcatlon OF
'nose VINO are inclined 10 indulge themselves
IN TIE luxury Of an aft ernoon's nap.
The resolution of Mr. McDulfie, as will be
seen, proposes to limit the extent of the SEES.
SONS OF Congress TO four months, 30 that they
snail adjourn always by the LIST of Aprl-Such
al least will be the effect of his proposition.
Aud really, four months seem 10 II. to be
long enough for them to SIT it, instead of de-
oa''ng every proposition, however trivial in
us character, they would pass upon those
winch are unimportant a silent negative or
Affirmative, and reserve their eloquencs for
questions of" some pn and moment" As
MI McDufhe, on previous occasion, remark
eo' let Congress initiate the British Parliament
!" one particular al least-and that is to decide
question day, instead Of, as at present,