The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-11-20
From the Raleigh Register. 4
We publish the following letter ver6atm as it
was furnished US By the writer:

was AuIHASHSo Us " Tie WTitST.
A COPY OF A LETTER,
Written in Lincolnton Lincoln county, North Carolina
dated November 10th, 1858, addressed to four mem
bers of the Legislature of the State One to the
Honorable franklin Reinhardt Senator of the Dis
trict; one to the Honorable Ambrose Costner, MEM
Der of Lincoln county; and the other two were adj
dressed to two of the most prominent members of
both houses.
Most respected and Honored Sirs:
Your honest constituents have placed confidence
in you, and have, for a time, elevated You above
themselves on account of your integrity and
talents. You not ignorant, sir, that thousands
of honest families, many of whom, widows and
orphans, are yearly ruined by the effects and sug-
gestions of dishonest laws. You are aware, sir,
that 1t is invariably the case, that many honest
families sell their property to a man who is known
to be rich, and who they believe to be honest and
that other families of both sexes invited by the
same belief, send their money to the same man.
but no sooner has :his purchased this
property on credit from the first and borrowed the
money from the latter, than the dishonest laws
whisper and suggest to him never to pay single
dollar; on the contrary, to purchase all the prop
erty he can, borrow money here and there and
everywhere, and from every person he can, and as
long he possibly can, then when his honest
creditors him, to give security for his appear
ance at court, sell and smuggle his property before
there is judgment against him, swear in court he
is worth nothing-laugh with an air of scorn in
the very faces Of his honest creditors for being
fools, and telling them all to pay the costs for their
troubles, losses, grefs, lamentations and ruin; and
in many cases, when those CENTRES are sued, the
same knavish laws point out and direct them to a
broad way which was designedly left wide and
open through which they easily def1aud the
honest part of the community, since it consists
only in confessing Judgment to some of their rea-
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worth, or which will prove much more eficacious
and speedy, above all other diabolical devices in
order to defraud honest dupes, and which caps the
climax of all rascalities, and put stop to the col
lection of a single dollar let those subtle and
satanic CENTRES give deed of trust in favor of
some member of their family relations and friends,
to whom they nothing, for a larger amount
than the property which they claim is worth; for
just such frauds have palpably and VIGOROUSLY
been perpetrated in this place, not only to the
detriment Of honest families, but to the astonish
ment and CONSERVATION of all honest persons.
Thus the laws instead of hnderng frauds and
perjuries, it appears if they had been wickedly
devised in order to facilitate the bold the wicked
and dabolical peri urer to defraud the honest and
confding part of the community; and it is very
obvious that by the tenor of such laws every per-
son in the country is invited to turn swindler and
perjurer, and more especially the rich whose
credit is good, as it has been the case in all the
frauds perpetrated in this county, not only in time
past, but even at the present time. So it is evil
IDENTITY clear that there is but one means by which
the satanic swindler can be reached, and that is,
from the day, and not only from the day, but from
the hour Of the day which the debtor is served
with WRIT his property to be then firmly bound
for the debt, and the debtor, instead of giving
security for his appearance at court let him give
security for the delivery Of his property. And, in
order to put end to all dishonest arguments,
give the debtor two years to discharge the debt,
but make the payment sure. Could but honest
laws be enacted the country would, in manner,
be reclaimed from dishonesty, frauds, perjuries,
mmoralites and discredit. And in the name of
honesty justice, and goodness, let any person. be
he she, judge whether it is is not the height
of infamy, knavery, and mockery of honesty,
justice and morality; that is, to give diabocal
swindler twelve months and more to sell, run off,
and smuggle his property, as it has been perpetra-
ted in this place, and then, to bring into court his
corrupt, contagious and diabolica body to perjure
himself and swear he is worth nothing, when the
same satanic perjurer had made up his mind
twenty years previously to swear to anything but
the truth at any time or place. And you, sir, as
an honest man, if you cast but philosophical eye
over the country, what will you behold? AS an
honest man you cannot but behold dishonesty,
frauds, and peri uries everywhere glarng before
your eyes. Yes, Of integrity, feeling and
honesty, you would reluctantly perceive, and con-
fess with sorrow horror and dependency, what a
multitude of suffering, frauds and satanic perjures
the British knavish laws have caused to be perpe-
trated all over the country; that those same
knavish laws have corrupted and contaminated a
multitude in all classes of society. The honest
people of Lincoln county say that they now regard
with suspicion, every man who wants to borrow
money or to purchase property credit. matter
how rich he is, for the richer the man the baser
and more diabolcal the swindler; and finally, sir
in the face of so many facts, facts which are so
lustrously glaring before the eyes of all honest
persons, will honest Legislature demur in pass
ing acts not only just but meritorious in order to
do justice and prevent not onl the ruin of many
thousands of honest families, but the ruin of many
widows and orphans, as has actually been the case
in this place Of widow lady and her children who
were stripped of their support by the artifce of
subtle and most consummate swindler, besides
others of less subety, but of not less dishonesty
and altogether they have defrauded prodg ious
number of honest families, and likewise to restore
and recall the departed credit and lost morality of
those who are travelling, with giant strides, the
route to dishonor and perdtion, caused by the 4
allurng invitations and suggestions of those British
laws, which were corruptly and wickedy devised and
framed by designing British knaves, calculated to
answer their design And now, sir, consider what
a multitude of grievous evils, viz: griefs, dis
tresses, frauds perjuries, lamentations, distractions
rowed knavlsh laws, not only in this county and
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