Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-28
WASHINGTON.
Senator Browns Proposition How the
eouth Is Affected By 1t.
Ten Millions in the Treasury Belonging to
Southern Claimants.
An Old Texans Wrongs and Hardsiips-
A woman has Jolly Little Claim.
Sectional Injustice By Tariff RefoHnsrs-
Why the South Is Poor.

special correspondence OF the Gaxetis.
Washington. January . The sug-
geeiion of Senator Brown Of Georgia,
renewed to-day, that the bill sending
private claims 90 the court OF claims
should send thither without prejudice,
all southern claimants, cxcites earnest
discussion. Perfect equality Of rights,
before the law. after pardon" among
ali citizens, is conferred. "Pardonedn
rebels, In courts Of justice, were never
traitors. There are ten millions of dol
lars in the Federal treasury, consti-
tuting proceeds Of the sale Of captured
aud abandoned rebel property
which should be distributed ut once
1 among the real owners OF the fund.
ONE OF TIE owNERs---A CASE Is
POINT.
! There sits beside me AT this moment
I n gray-hnired Texan, who was de.
Y0ut Wing, as were most Southern
shareholders. He belonged 10 the
"broaslcloih party of Henry Clay,
I and read the Bible and the old No
Honad Tnteitigcnccr with like venera-
tion for the two sources OF inspiration.
T He was arrested and tried before a
( Southern vigilance committee for
/ treason in May, 1861, and only re-
I leased when he agreed ''to keep his
mouth shut His SONS were COiifed-
crate soldiers. and he became "dis
I loyal because he was for the under
dog ia the fight, and 1t was, too, bis
! dog. There was never IA day in his
I life, however, that he did not believe
I secession a blunder and "A crime, and
/ that the Federal Union should be un-
4 broken and eternal. His syfnpathies
/ of place and of person ran
/ in one direction; his convictions and
/ opinions Ia another. Armies of tlle
/ South were full OF such men. Were
! they, in any sense, traitors to the
Union? Should they not have equal
aceees with Northern people, no more
"loyaln at heart than they to courts
1 OF Federal JUSTICE Is the Union u
\ lie, and peace and equality before the
law deiusion, and full pardon,
meaningless? Is the Union another
Catalina Of whom Cicero said, prodi-
gussue, drici0s utlepi, grasping at the
wrath Of others ON the one hand, and
lavish in wasteful expenditures on the
OtherP Must the South la stripped of
everything as well as Of i,s slave prop.
erty?
TIII OLD MANS STORY,
''In February, 1861, New York nier-
chants held my commercial paper for
$4,000. ] wrote TO them, saying, that
war was iminent and that | wished
10 discount and take up these obliga-
tions. The notes were sent 10 Mobile
and paid all before their maturity OK
cept ten thousand dollars, which one
SAN Brown Il Go. returned, because
they preferred my paper TO the cash.
Ia.
marshal, learning that owed this
ten thousand dollars in New York
caused the debt TO be coniiscuted, and
was ordered TO pay the money into
the Confederate court. didn't
think this payment just or proper, or
that II would operate finally M N re-
lease. Therefore, agreed with the
marshal TO set aside and shelter for
him, in case he al any time vas forced
to demand actual payment on my own
plantation enough cotton to cover the
debt. Ibid this, retaining possession
OF this cotton on these terms till the
war ended. Then there came squad
of Union soldiers who seized this cot
ton which had never delivered.
resisted in vain, 1t was shipped
North, sold and the proceeds went i'm
To the United States treasury and
soon afterwards sam Brown 4
Co. compelled me to pay
then the $40, 000 and intercst. stripped
of half of all had by secession which
| had resisted while resistance was
possible, found myself bcggared by
the laws of the Union which prctends
to guard the rights of it's children.
! NEXT CAME THE cARrEl' n,dGERs.
Nn,,rn.u Ia ,,,t. .,,t,,n,,,
the whites, as five 10 one. Local rates
of taxation, county, town or STATE
were five per cent. per annum. was
undone. Al | have left h this claim
upon the cotton fund in the treasury
OF the Unito,t States, IL had deliv-
cred my cotton 10 the G. :. marshal
my title would have been Impaired.
Hut the facts are ms stated, and Gov
crnor Browns proposition Is Just, |
am seventy-six years old and cannot
begin life anew, and atu
here 10 learn whether there
lie any possibility OF restitution, =
said 90 the old gentleman that he
might rs we'll 50 home. Even Demo.
Gratis fearing the reproduced bloody
shirt outcry aud that OF ''Rehel rotl-
berry OF the treasury would not dare
10 interpose Ia his behalf Nobody
will have the hardihood TO serve you,
u wretched Southeruer, except Logan,
fdnnlnts or some learlcss, honest Re.
publican, He WAS amazed, bui finally
Induced TO accept my advice, and SIC
Logan; with what result, | viii he nd
vised
ANOTHER QUEER CLAIM,
A Miss Scott she must he tile Cap.
tain Scott we read about lis here ASK.
ing for SlOo, 600, She was always
/ loyal and she may get the money
II seems 81 she was telling /, to-day
AT the Ebhett House, that She came 10
Washington to secure clerk
ship . and being young and
handsome, soon won the admiration
and commanded the tonderest soliei.
tudc of senator, She refused to
name the man. But, IN order 10 SCI
the clerkship aud bread, she made sac
riliccs assessed at the above named
sum, She insists with touching 4 n,
b plicity and CarnestneSs, that the GOV
eminent, paying whisky and cigar
bills for rowing committees aud COM
missions, viii surely adjust the pccu.
liar account she presents. could not
help thinking, while bordering over
4 the matter, that Sloo,n00 is large
sum "a pay for. the gentle daliiances
even of an eN-senatorand for resulting
griefs endured even by loyal seraph.
LOUISIANA IN TEARS.
The Republican caucus having
agreed Ia make Louisiana sugar and
Texas wool pay the cost OF half the
tariff reduction, Gibson and King of
Louisiana and Epson and Wash Jones