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! publican newspaper. We agree, we are ready tc
admit although We might argue that the bill could
be cyaded or avoided, yet for the sake Of argument
| the Republicans during the whole campaign have
| admitted that
THOSE TWO CLAIMS WERE BARRED,
and could not be paid. But when we make that
piekei Cd the assh shell Of he Of s eoatro
yersy, for that which Is pending now relates
wholly and entirely to another e'ass Of clatmsIto
that not
why aidn't yon prohibit that class Of claims
also: Why, when yon were passing the ,s:l.a Con.
Of The Rebe!s, Why didn't yoa include this othes
class Of clais that is now giving so mncn tfon9le
to the country Why, my ansver to that IS THIS
That at that time, 1865 or 1856. 1t never aad en-
tered into the brain OF man to conceive the height
and the DEPTH and the length, and the breadth of
! the Democratic or Rebel inpuuence that could ask
iCheers an and laughter. ], Never! More iaughter.l
| 1t had never been imagined. II It had been i'm
! agined It would have been prohibited. Now, in
Of Loyal Sas IN asa tn: s
Commission. snd that cou.m!ss!on lesion! was an
loyal men, regardless Of where they resided, who
United States. And then there was rcrivnl OF
Dfother Moody made revival q. feligion in any Of
eoa}a coz aes aa down So South hat was not not
went through seven Confederate States just after
that bill was passed. and he did not and one man
but what had always been friend to the Union
not one, lLaughteE.l Pretty much every ono of
them had claim and
EVERY ONE OF THEM WAS TRULrLoYAL.
and be said he Travelled through seven Southern
State of Mississippi, before he saw one man that
had been hostile to the Union; and there be
met Major and Licutcnant-C Colonel Of rebel
regiment, and they, talked to him frankly, and
told him where they haH bpAn n vCh1f hNft1pS
where they enlisted. and where they fought, and
how they had tried to aid the Confederacy; and
@ Wade offered them his hand, and said: ~ am
two snch men as you are, for as far as can dis
cover in very extensive trip through this coun-
Try you arc the two, men that for four
long yeasa resisted the whole army OF the United
States" CLaushter-l Well, just about that time,
ae good luck OF the Providence OF God would have
if Te came into possession ot ths Rebel aseaiycs
the Rebel Government from Gen John I. Pickett
and these archives contain the entire muster-ron
Of 5ne M on and the militia Of the sa,es
the Rebel States. In short It presented perfect
photograph OF dialoyaity Throughout the Confeder-
acy: We got those, and put them into hre-proof
building in Washington, put them in charge OF q
competent man, gave him number Of clerks, and
he went to work TO analyze, index and alphabet
op 1s 81 h s sss gse
questions Of loyalty, and pretty soon when these
men began to put in their claims before the South
III.
get the evidence, or the Court would get
the evidence, from this Commission that had
charge of the archives, and when Jones, of North
tended to he loyal man! he was At onre eonfrant-
ed With the 81 fact Why, j Jones, yoa % must be-
MOST PRoDIGIoGs LIAR,
Twenty- third Sorth Carolina Rer,ment nna vnn nv
are nretendino fo he forst Az mn word ctn,e
another man Mish vt claim SAYING ~ never bore
Gat and @ .t ~
MT f,onfcda=nr1 ana yonrJan;s;nna 49, ~ sup
the meanest and worst Of The whoin confederacvs
and yoa viii nease Stand nside % And se Ee IA
an index to every every man mani that came forward; and and
aes ;Sd Dc
Claims Commission Now this Inst Gonsress nr
he ia oG1 whic% hnd hcen arnma,iy
.ivcn to search thosc archives. They refused to
appropr,ate The S.. COS NECESSARY to furnish the
Commission. and theT held of for foup 'iorm ionn
nonths and tbeT nevei yielded that small annrn
a1ston aat PsssIasat Grant had called t attsefion
~, III ~ nc ,hns ann taea'
nnly xeded s t In .n IS M
= compromise conference report, and gsse Ss't the
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