Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-08
Questions rOr sheeplsh RepudIators.

L. Surprising you had, last year, been
involved in great and difficult lawsuit, on
whose issue not only all your property, but
your character was at stake, and which
you could not thoroughly try without rails
| ing $4,000 in cash, and suppose YOU had
advertised for this money, saying g If any
one will lend me the So, GOO / need, / will
pay him $4,000 If I win INV suit, and
thereupon some one had loaned you the
money and you had herewith gained your
case, how much would you owe that credi-
tor until you paid him
IL Supposing that, having thus obtained
the requisite means to prosecute your suit
TO triumphant issue, and won it, you should
feel moved to stigmatize the lender as
Shylock, usurer, robber, descendant OF Jul
das Iscsriet, etc, etc, would you not have
abundant reason to suspect your own in
toFrity and honor?
III Surprising that you had been labor
ing under heavy embarrassments through
out the last three or four years and had
thus been impelled, because you could do
no better, to make six long notes of 81 GOO
each, and entrust them to q broker to sell
fer your account, and he had sold them at
different times for 81 GOO $500, $500, $500,
5000, and $500 respectfully, according to
the goodness OF your prospects and your
credit when they were severally negotiated,
and supposing that you had thereby
weathered the storm and re-established
your fortunes, and supposing that those
notes were about to fall due, how much
would you owe the holders respectively ?
and on what principle would you require
any reduction from the face of their several
demands2
" Surprising that the holder should
present one of those notes for payment,
and it appeared that il had been sold re-
peatedly for mere and then f0f less than had
originally been paid for it. as your pros
poets happened at the moment TO be darker
or brighter, and that the last holder. be-
heving you good, had paid $3.50 or $3.50 for
it, how much would satisfy your obligation
TO him.
V. Surprising you should say to him. or
TO any holder of enc of those notes, " Sir,
/ have fixed my property SO that no one
can get q legal hold of it, and now ] win
give you, in exchange for my note, which
specifically and incontestably draws six per
cent. interest per annum in gold, another
note for 81 600 drawing no interest at any
time and payable at my own convenience,
if ever; and, if you don't see fit to take
this, YOU shall never be paid ANYTHING
whatever, could you ever thereafter look
into mirror without confronting the re-
Elected visage Of a very mean, shameless
villain?
VI. Surprising you had thus advertised
your true character to the whole world,
and had thus destroyed your own reputa-
ton and credit, would your debt have be-
come fraction smaller, or the obligation to
pay it shade less, than it was before?
VII. Would you not on the whole, look
up with respect and admiration to your
neighbor, who being similarly indebted,
should say to his unfortunate creditors =
q The long aud short of the matter is, that
being bold and straight-out scoundrel, l
will never pay you one cent; and, If you
don't like that, you may help yourself the
best way you can ?''-Ne0 York Tribune,