Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-04-15
THE pAlsSONS LEGACY

dent at that time of this city, bequea,hed
at his death property and money to the
amount of about $4,000, to be used as an
endowment fund for our Iowa Presbyterian
College. His will provided, we believe,
that the matter of location should be de-
termincd BY the trustee of his estate. I'm
til quite recently the fund has remained
''intact.' Although Mr.. Parsons was an
Old School Presbyterian, the legacy was
not intended for either distinct branch OF
the church, but was set apart for the pur-
pose of establishing Presbyterian College
here in Iowa, without regard to either
school, Whether or not Mr.. Parsons at
the time of his death, foresaw the final and
complete union of the two branches Of the
! Presbyterian Church, which was consum-
mated last fall, is matter which we will
not attempt to investigate. That event
seems to have been, however, a propjiious
time for action in relation to lis legacy.
His son, General Lewis b. Parsons, and
the trustee of his estate, in whose hands
the matter was left. moved at once toward
the location of the College. He selected
MS IL committee to assist him in lis location.
Rev. DR.. s. g. Specs, OF Dubuque; Rev
John Arms rorg, OF Muscatine, and Rev
W. G. Craig, Of this city. This commit
tee, which represents the three Synods of
Iowa, visited in company with General Par.
MS, all the most desirable and accessible
points in the State, and decided TO locate
the College either at Des Moines, Mar
shall,own or Cedar Rapids. After having
visited these places the committee gave
them specified time in which to make
their respective propositions. The time
having expired and the propositions hay.
ing all been submitted in writing, the loca-
ton will be definitely determined at once.
Gen. Parsons and Rev. Mr. Armstrong are
already here, and Rev. DR.. Specs was ex-
pected last evening.
The cities which are candidates for the
locati nj are represented as follows: Cedar
Rapids, Judge Green and DR.. Ely; Mar
shaIltown, Rev. Mr.. Goodale, Hon. II. j.
Boardman and Hon. Mr.. Arnold; Des
Moines, Judge C. c. Cole aud others.
These gentlemen will appear in turn and
state their respective claims.
The committee in con JUNCTION with Gen,
Parsons, will properly consider them, and
after the necessary consultation, will locate
the College at that place which in their
opinion is most entitled to it, and where
the object for which the College is to be es-
tablished can be most economically and ad
vantageously achieved.
1t is due to Mr.. Parsons to state that he
will be actuated in his decision of the mat
ter by no possible motive, save the best in
tercss of the church. He wants the Col
lege located where it will best suit maj or
ity of the Presbyterians Of Iowa. The
members of the committee are also unbias-
ed and all will act with the utmost impair
ial ity.- Gate City.
Mrs. Ames in one of her late letters to
the Independent from Washington thus
srkingy illustrates times changes, in
the history Of three Senators:
| Senator Brownlow sits before Senator
Revels. When Mr.. Drake congratulated
the latter on his speech there, the three
men stirred the most wondt rful associa
tons. There was one. now Senator OF
the United States, who eight years before
asked for an obscure seat in the Senate
Gallery in vain. He could not pass the
door because his skin was shade darker
than that of the doorkecper though hi'
mother was a Scotch woman and his father
free man. There, qulvering with palsy
in every limb, sat another, who few years
ago prayed that if he died at the North his
coffin might be made open at one end, Sc
that he could crawl away from the Aboli
tionists. There was another man, shaking
hands with the Senator of the darker face
who few years ago presented bill to the
Legis .ture of Missouri that all free mer
of color in that State should be sold int
slavery, which bill would have included
the Senator with whom he was now shaking
hands. These three men were all friend.
to-day. Well, the old earth moves!
No sooner is the Fifteenth Amendment
proclaimed, than sudden shrewdness sci
yes the New York Democracy like collie
After having stumped the State to elect 1
Democratic Legislature. on purpose to re
verse the ratification of that amendment
already made by Republican Legislature
and having succeeded, reversed the ratiica
ton, delayed 1t by several months, and ever
secured quasi acknowledgement of ihe
adverse action in the proclamation of ratiii
cation itself these shrewd Democrats pur
pose now to convince The colored voters o
the Empire State that they are indebted tt
the Democratic party for tho right of suf
frage. For this purpose to pass an act ex
tending The op-raiicn of the Fifteenth
Amendment to New York. The negroes
Of New York may be very ignorant in 20
Iitcal matters, but they are not so hopeless
" depraved. as the great mass Of the Dem
ocrsis of that. State suppose. - Chicog'
Tribune.
From the Iowa Falls Sentinel we learI
that r: II. Mcbride, editor of the Eldor'
I.Lcd1er, was arrested on charge of"swin
ding and forgery, and wniving examina
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