Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-01-31
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The Parsons Bill

accounts, still at oggerheads-whilst Mr.. Par
sons. jr has already disappeared from Virgins
and is now. perhaps, on trial, for kidnapping. il
apennsylvena court The very long aud tedi
Gus. th, ugh necessarily condensed discussion in
the newspapers on these bills. we deem it unno
: cessary to publish further. The public will gath
err enough from simply reading the bills 10 un
ders,and their character fully They will lear
E enough thereby. toe. TO be assured at least q
THE prominent fact. that If our Legislators have
all at once become as Is evident, furiously high
err law" in their views. and brim full of blood AM
thunder to boot against Yankecdom in gener-
al and Pennsylvania in particular. they have
been at least exceedingly unfortunate in the
manner of showing it.
They have been alike unfortunate, perhaps.
in promoting by their indignation the Presiden-
tial aspirations of a certain Mr.. Hnnteror some
body else at the expense Of a certain prominent
Pennsylvania politician of the Democratic
school. But all that was incidental Of course.
not designed-ihe honor and fame of Virginia
being the considerations at issue. and being, al
80. considerations which occasionally assume Ms
m uch Importance as those which pertain TO the
spoils.
The bill which passed the House is char
acterized, and we think justly, by the Richmond
Examiner. as in effect. "a billie encourage he
arrest Of Jirginfans pursuing their siares into
free States, ty paying large sums ofmoney into
the treasures Of those States" and, as it was
modified in the Senate. into what is substantially
"a bill for paying sfperd thousand dollars 10
Do ,jr usu for ~
PARSONS, who pos pursuing his siores hereand
prosecuting him on false pretenoes.
The true remedy. the protection of Parsons in
his constitutional rights of person and property,
as already piolaied. is net touched it will be per-
ceived. in either Of the bills Provision is made
by extraordinary and extra judicial proceedings
to shield him from injuries That may or may not
arise, but for the loss ofhs property, already SUI
fered, and his indictment. asa feon already made.
our resolution, making Legislators ARE, queerly
enough. Indignantly mum. But the matter is still
pending and possibly they may yot resolve to do
something practical and to the point Until then
we stand aside and yield tho floor to our Demo
cratic contemporary, the Examiner, who deliy-
ers himself very plainly on the subject. The
performance of "tho feat to which allusion is
made in the opening of the following extract from
that paper has been so long principle OF De-
mocracy. that we are little astonished that the
Examiner should speak Of it SO rreyercn,y.-
The Enquirer should look to its screws:
The highest feat of Virginia craftsmanship aud
Legislative wisdom now days. seems to be
plunge into the public treasury. We have ami
madverted upon the aptitude of the assembled
wis for thasp punwaa hut Danpavl
vania two or three Thousand dollars for arrestng
PARSONS, while leaving poor PARSONS to go sans
his slave and sans his slaves value in money, is
carrying this ri)liant financial policy one step
beyond the sublime. If this facie recourse to
the treasury mustbe resorted to- we should inf.
nitely prefer TO SCI the Virginia citizen paid for
his slave. than thePennsylvania treasury reple.
nished with Virginia bail money, levied on vim
dictive and fraudulent arrest.
Nor can regard it anything but back
out for Virginia TO command her citizen TO for
felt his plighted recognzance and to skulk his
trial. Ordinarily forfeit Of bail and dodge of
trial is esteemed a tacit confession Of guilt; and
whatever we might think of such 'absquatua-
ton. in such as this, in pirginia the fan
atics Of Pennsylvania would put the usual and
popular construction upon it, and chuckle not
only that the Virginian skulked his trial. but
that Virginia herself became party to the dodge
by paying down his bail money. We believe in
PATS philosophy-"the best way TO avoid dan
ger is to meet il plump" The fearless, bold pol
ICY is always the best; for fortune favors the
brave. 1t is better that Virginian citizens should
face their trial upon these malicious and vndc
tive prosecutions, depend upon release by habeas
corpus from the federal courts, or failing that,
rely upon the strong arm of Virginia for protec
ton, than that Virginia herself should command
them to evade their trial, and herself pay into
the Yankee treasury the forfeited recognizanco
money. There is us little wisdom in the olau SO
Of the Bill ordering all citizens to evade or skulk
these malicious prosecutions in Yankee States.
as in the clause directing the Governor to pay
the forfeited bill into the Yankee treasury. We
have always thought we could swallow red hot
measures Of retaliation with as much aacri,y as
the toad takes down live coal of fire or light
ming bug; but we really cannot defend bill
compensating Yankee States for insttuting NAL
icious prosecutions against our citizens and com
manding citizens to forfeit their recoguizan
ces- in order to afford Virginia the opportunity O
indulging in that expensive recreaton.-lf Their,
is chivalry in dogng Yankee trials or pluck il
paying money to Yankee States, zoe do not under
stand the meaning of the terms.
The NEW CUNARD STEAMER PERsIA.-The new
iron steamship Persia, of the Cunnrd line. whel
the Baltic sailed had arrived at Liverpool iron
the Clyde, under the command eff Captain Jud
kins of the Arabia. The Persia's speed fror
Greenook to Liverpool averaged nineteen mile
an hour.
According to the government rule of nd
measurement her power is equal to that of 80
horses; according TO the plan laid down in Ear
Hardwicke's bill, 1920 ,horses;and according
Jas. Watts rule of $500 ID. per horse she woul
work up to 1000 or 5000 horses. She has seye
watertight apartments; separate sleeping accom-
modations, for 300 passengers and clear prom
enade from stem to stern along the roof of til
deckhouse. The weight of iron in the Pnrsi