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cussed. Judge Gray159 spoke-became very much excited & spoke
very earnestly. He was very feeble. How I sympathize with
him. He was against the proposition to make Treasury notes a
legal tender & was of course right. House passed a bill to aid
committees of Congress in investigations & to punish false swear-
ing before said Committee.
Saturday 28th Act to authorize the President to suspend writ
of Habeas Corpus introduced by Barksdalelo-refused to suspend
rules to put it on its immediate passage; referred to judiciary com-
mittee. Resolution fixing 16th March as time of adjournment
introduced & laid on the table. I voted to lay on the table.
Clopton & Boyce61 made good speeches. Nothing from home
today. My last letter dated 25th Jany. Am anxious in regard to
my dear ones. Graham & self were at a party late last night. I
am sleepy tonight early in consequence.
Sunday March 1st [1863] No letter from home. Am anxious
about my dear ones. Heard Dr. Selwin6" preach-an eloquent &
feeling sermon-subject "trust in God." Walked out in the after-
noon which was most clear & beautiful. Went to Episcopal Church
at night. G & I escorted Miss C., a very sensible & interesting
woman. Wrote Anna a long letter.
Monday 2nd In the House did nothing decisive. Bill to au-
thorize the acceptance of 12 more men from Mo. & Ky. laid on the
table. I voted to lay on the table because the Reps. from those
states did not want the bill. Commenced voting on the currency
bill. Voted No on the legal tender bill63 which failed. Voted
for Boyce's proposition to pay the interest on bonds hereafter to
be issued in gold & silver or in cotton at coin prices. In the evening
"'Judge Gray, note 32.
aBarksdale-See above, note 31.
*"Clopton (M. C.), David; Alabama; 1862-1865. Boyce-See above,
note 134.
"'Dr. Selwin-Unknown.
3"Currency and legal tender bills. The Currency problem in the South
was critical. "The Confederate government aimed to meet the rising
flood of war expenses with enormous issues of treasury notes. This pol-
icy amounted to an exchange nominally voluntary, but in reality more
or less forced by the government's promise to pay, at first at a definite
time with interest, later at an indefinite time and without interest, the
notes which took the place of coin and other forms of currency. The
notion prevailed that the promise of interest would make them (the
treasury notes) attractive as an investment and keep them out of circu-
lation. In point of fact, this promise swelled the amount of currency
afloat." (The South in the Building of a Nation, Vol. 5, pages 453-454.)300
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