THE CASE OF GEORGE FISHER. 



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INTEREST FROM 1813. From this new sum total the amounts already paid to the 

 Fishers were deducted, and then the cheerful remainder (a fraction under forty 

 thousand dollars) was handed to them, and again they retired to Florida in a condi- 

 tion of temporary tranquility. Their ancestor's farm had now yielded them, 

 altogether, nearly sixty-seven thousand dollars in cash. 



6. Does the reader suppose that that was the end of it .? Does he suppose those 

 ■diffident Fishers were satisfied .' Let the evidence show. The Fishers were quiet 

 just two years. Then they came swarming up out of the fertile swamps of Florida 

 with their same old documents, and besieged Congress once more. Congress 



capitulated on the first of June, i860, and instructed Mr. Floyd to overhaul those 

 papers again and pay that bill. A Treasury clerk was ordered to go through those 

 papers and report to Mr. Floyd what amount was still due the emaciated Fishers. 

 This clerk (I can produce him whenever he is wanted) discovered what was appar- 

 ently a glaring and recent forgery in the papers, whereby a witness's testimony as 

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