But this time they stumbled upon the misfortune of an honest Secretary of the Treasury (Mr.James Guthrie), and he spoiled everything.

He said in very plain language that the Fishers were not only not entitled to another cent, but that those children of many sorrows and acquainted with grief had been paid too much already.
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Therefore another interval of rest and silence ensued--an interval which lasted four years--viz till 1858.

The "right man in the right place" was then Secretary of War--John B.Floyd, of peculiar renown! Here was a master intellect; here was the very man to succor the suffering heirs of dead and forgotten Fisher.

They came up from Florida with a rush--a great tidal wave of Fishers freighted with the same old musty documents about the same immortal corn-fields of their ancestor.
They straight-way got an act passed transferring the Fisher matter from the dull Auditor to the ingenious Floyd.