Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-03-20
Correspondence CT the virginian.

Mcssrs Editors " our readers are doubtless
long ago wcaried with what Greeley calls the Ncb-
rascal Bill. The very best efforts for and u
gainst it have fniled to bring out anything very
noycl,or to invest the subject with any interest
extending beyond political circles. Politicians
- Il. no, var nhent nnme.
l,ve itd 1T meaning the sane.
1t has gone TO the House considerably mutila-
ted in the far proportions that SO took" both
North and South, aud there be many who begin
seriously to question its passage this session.
The amendments of Clayton and Badger whose
''malernar' feelings have been SO much enlisted,
form quito enough ground for those to back out
who went too ncontinenty into its support
while many fearing TINT they may not win adopt
the advice of the old man to his son-always in
that event, reduce it to "sqabbe.n
The inception and progress of this question
but illustrate the superior tact of Northern pol
iticians as has every one that has arisen for thr-
ty years. The South is again 'bagged' for the
next Northern man with Southern principles that
wants her vote.
Notwithstanding tho emphatic pledge of both
political parties to an end of agaitaton and to a
"hnality," there comes proposition from the
Nor'h granting what we did not ask and what
was yielded long ago, as not worth fighting for.
And though by the confession of its author it
yields no practical benefit we are bound to accept
There is no alternative, aud there is the trick.
1t was fondly hoped by the lovers of order
that agitation over that the day of talk
had passed. Not so Northern men love it, and
Southern men are nothing 10th.
They will talk lint ~ Inust hn pnnfas sod TINT
many arc in the position of Bob Acres begging
Sir Lucius to let him get in passion. Only,
will it stop whore the representative becomes as
Disguised with himself, the people IRE with
him.
1t is understood that the President is about to
send in special message on the seizure of the
steamer Black Warrior, by the Spanish authors
ties in Cuba, in which he is to take high and
perhaps extreme grounds Now is certain
ly very favorable time. While the powers
of the Old Word are engaged IN the arbitration
of old questions by arms, Uncle Sam can quick
ly settle the new one of manifest" "progres-
sive destiny. by taking Cuba. Let it be done
before the passage of the Nebraska bill, and we
shall have another slave State.
The Gardner tragedy has hardly formed a
of perjury, the conviction, nor vet the tragic
end Of the criminal but the money involved that
made the excitement. Perjury is not uncommon
with claimants cil ,st Government; but the a.
mount was very unusual. Thousands of scoun-
drels go unwhipt of justice, because they cannot
pay for their own prosecution.
The Spiritual Rappcrs have Convention now
sitting herein. r. Tallmadge presiding. They
are a parcel of crazy people who are as yet quite
harmless. One of the principal mediums and
members, last summer,held l. ny and solemn COM
muncaions with sons spirit which informed
him that he died at certain time in California
A short time and the living son manifested"
himself
From all l can learn, they are not half as re-
spectacle in their performances as the Witches
of Salem-and they may congratulate themselves
both on that, and the fact that they live in diff
ferent age. Rapperism cannot stand fire.