Censuring the court for this liberal decision the _Richmond Examiner_ referred to it as offering "a very convenient way of getting out of the scrape." The editor emphasized the fact that the law of Virginia imposed on such offenders the penalty of one hundred dollars fine and imprisonment for six months, and that its positive terms "allowed no discretion in the community magistrate."[2] [Footnote 1: Parsons, _Inside View of Slavery_, p.

251; and Lyman, _Leaven for Doughfaces_, p.

43.] [Footnote 2: _13th Annual Report of the American and Foreign Antislavery Societies_, 1853, p.

143.] All such schools, however, were not secretly kept.

Writing from Charleston in 1851 Fredrika Bremer made mention of two colored schools.