That is the case of Mr.Justice Jackson, who was appointed by President Harrison on my own earnest recommendation.

There has never been made in any quarter, so far as I know, a statement or pretence that there existed any evidence that President Grant made these appointments, or that any member of his Cabinet advised it because of its possible effect on the Legal Tender Law.

Yet this foolish and dirty charge has found extensive credit.

I read it once in the London _Times._ It was, however, in a communication written by a degenerate and recreant American who was engaged in reviling his own country.

It was also referred to by Mr.Bryan in his book on the United States.
I sent him a copy of a pamphlet I prepared on the subject, and received from him a letter expressing his satisfaction that the story was without foundation.