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Stock hogs, ............................ 1,050
Drove hogs, ............................ 1,204
Wheat, ................................. 350
Hides, ................................. 4,000
Corn on the Alabama River, ............. 3,500
Total, .............18,104
That sum, in his report, Mr. Floyd calls the "full value of the property
destroyed by the troops."
He allows that sum to the starving Fishers, TOGETHER WITH 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 condition of temporary tranquillity. Their ancestor's farm had now
yielded them altogether nearly sixty-seven thousand dollars in cash.
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. 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 1st of June, 1860, 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
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