Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-08
A THRILLING APPEAL.
How n Minnesota Merchant Asks
His Debtors 10 Pay Up.
CEatfeld (Minn.) Democrat.

NOTICE.
Ny Dear Sir: L want 70 ask you plain
question, in all kindness and sincerity, and
/ would like 10 have You answer il honestly
and candidly; not in two or three years or
months, but NOwl THIS WEEK. sup
posing YOU were poor as Jobs TURKEY, and
had invested two OF three thousand dollars
in an enterprise which you designed TO make
auExCIUsIVELY CASH business, suppOsing,
as a matter Of accommodation and good nature,
you had trusted il out all over the country,
from HI to Jerico; suppOsing you had
kept adding your means, and still putting
il on the books for few days. until your
funds were PLAYED out, like Cd FOOt's
PRAYER meeting; suppOsing YOU had claims
coming against YOU in the hands of BUSH
DeSs-men who had accommodated you in
good faith, aud needed theirmOney; sUppOs-
ing you had some pride in YOU, and meant to
be square-tOed and punctual, and haied to see
man whom YOU owed. when you didn't have
the legal-tendsr in your trOwsers 70 pay his
lust and lawful demands, worse than you
would to see an INJUN or the Devil; and
suppO. inc those whom YOU had sccOmmo-
da,ed felt perfectly easy and cOntented;
s.shieI the track when you went to see
them, and told the wife Of their bosom to an
swer "NOt at EOme," or came into town and
left without paving even a part; suppOsing
they held your money, and waited patiently
for wheat 70 come up 10 ninety cents or
dollar, OF pork TO bring tive or SIX dollars
hundred-WHAT WOULD YOU DO9 Would
you let your debts 90, ''and smile, and
smile, and be a villain;n or would you
sue every mothers son Of them that didn't
paw vsu if Il wers the last business you
transacted in-tOwn?
IfyOu were an honest man you'd do the
latter, and that's just what I'll be com
PEELED 70 10, and shall do. if the Lord is
God or there is a King IN Israel,
don't want money to Look at q can
e.rn enough for that); l don't want any to
salt down Il never could make It Keep;
but out Of several thousands trusted out,
humbly want A FEW HUNDREDS, and I'll
be id i'll won't have il, or an execution
returned nUlld bona.
1 have, in addition 20 erecting an eXpen-
sive store in Fountain, been sEDUCED into
investing over a thousand dollars in new
hall, which is an ornament as we'll as
convenience to the town at large. As YOU
know, l was promised POUR HUNDRED
DOLLARS, CASH. to assist me. WELL out OF
this little four h ndred l rave received just
TwENTY-SsX. / don exp ct any more, ana
don't want il, The hall is done. Il is
mine and to let, when the scaOOlhouse
cannot be had. But 1 want WHAT Is OWED
TO NE. Il is a small amount TO you; it j
means thousands Of dollars to me. l
shall be home in a few days 70 square |
ND. Let "DOc" have the money now, !
before 1 60. There is not one Of you, !
man or woman, from Christiana to Dublin, |
that he would not stick his bead ia the FIRE |
70 serve, whether he ever expected ANYTHING /
for it or not. Get his receipt before L 60 |
home. and bis soul viii rejoice. love YOU !
myself. as a mother loveth her first-bOrn; !
but 1 love to Pay my debts better than /
love any man, woman, or child, On the |
face Of God Almightys green earth; and BY |
the Great Eternal aud the Continental |
Congress, / propose to DO it, if have to /
make costs for every man in Fillmore |
county. Now let's have the spOndulicks, |
and see how sweet and pretty / can smile /
upon YOU. Yours, earnestly.
c. ). POWERS,
Senior partner in the firm Of G. 5. Powers /
& Sons.