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| Benj. F. Butler in 1856. from a photograph. |
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“I am acting,” said he, “in behalf of the American Emigrant Aid Society of Connecticut.
Our business has been procuring lands in the western country, generally those denominated swamp lands, and settling emigrants upon them.
We got a large quantity of such swamp lands of Adams County, Iowa,after considerable negotiation.
They gave our trustee a full deed of them, and we paid them by building a court-house for them, which they received as payment on account,
and by paying the balance in money at the price agreed.
Afterwards there was a political change in the county officers, and a young lawyer became a member of the board of county authorities.
The county under his advice brough a suit against us in the State Court to set aside our deed on the ground that in our negotiations with the county we stated that the lands were worth much less per acre than they were actually worth, and got them at too low a price on that misrepresentation.”
“Were the lands part of the county?”
“Yes.”
“Is that the only complaint they make against you?”
“Yes; they claim to recover back the money as obtained by false pretences.”
“That is impossible; that is against the Scripture: ‘It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer, but when he has gone his way then he boasteth.’
Well, what was done with your case?”
“It was brought in the Supreme Court of the State, and being Yankees we took it to the Circuit Court of the United States, and it ”
A. M. Thayer and Co. 1892.
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