Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-01-28
From the canheld (AIinn democrat.
A RICH CASE.
A Creditors Open Letter.
NOTICE.

Ny Dear Str-I want to ask you a
plain question in all kindness and sim
cerity, and I would like to have you
answer it honestly and candidly; not
in two or three years or months, but
now! this week!
Supposing you were poor as Jobs
turkey, and had invested two or three
thousand dollars in an enterprise
which you designed TO make an ex-
elusive cash business supposing, as a
matter of accommodation and good
nature, yen had trusted it out all over
the country, from H--n to Jericho !;
supposing you had kept adding your
means, and still putting it on the
books for few days. until your funds
were played out, like old Foot's pray
er meeting supposlng you had claims
coming against you in the hands of
business men who had accommodated
you in good faith, and needed their
money supposing you had some pride
in you and meant to be square -tOed
and punctual, and hated to see man
whom you owed, when you didn't have
the legal tender in your trowsers to
pay his just and lawful demands,
worse than you weuld to see an Injun
or the Devil; and supposing those
whom you had accommodated felt
perfectly easy and contented; 'shied
the track when you went to see them,
told the wife of their bosom to an
swer Not at home,' or came into town
and left without even paying a part !;
supposing they held your money, and
waited patiently for wheat to come up
to ninety cents or dollar, or pork to
bring five or six dollars a hundred,
what would you do? Would you let
your debts go, 'and smile, and smile,
and be villain or would you sue
every mothers son of them that did
not pay, if it was the last business
you transacted in town?
If you were an honest man you
would do the latter, and that's just
what I'll be compelled to do! if the
Lord is God or there is King in Is
rael!
don't want money to look at
can earn enough for that) don't want
any to salt down Inever could make
it keep); but out OF several thousand
trusted out, l humbly want few hun
dred, and I'll be id if wOn't
have it, or an execution returned nUIld
bona.
have, in addition to erecting ar
expensive store in Fountain, been Sc
duced into investing over Thousand
dollars in a new hall, which is an or
nament as well as a convenience tt
the town at large. AS you know,
was promised four hundred dollars
cash, to assist me. Well, out of thii
little four hundred 1 have received
Just twenty six. I don't expect any
more and I don't want it! Tht
hall is now done! It is mine, and tc
let when the school house can not b.
hda. But / want what is owed to me
1t is a small amount to you; it means
thousands of dollars to me. shall
be home-in few days to sqaure up
Let Dec have the the money before
go. There is not one of you, man OIL
woman, from Christiana to Dublin
that he would not stick his head in tn
| fire to serve, whether he ever expected
anything for it or not. Get his receip
before go home and his soul will re
joice. love you myself, as a moth
er loyeth her first born; but love t.
pay my debts better than 1 love an.
man, woman or child on the face o
God Almighty's green earth; and b,
the Great Eternal and the Continents
Congress, propose to do it, if I hav
to make costs for every man in Fill
more county. Now, lets have tn
spondulicks, and see how sweet an
pretty l can smile upon you. Your
earnestly, c. S. POWERS, Senior part
ner in the firm of c. S. Powers an
Sons.
FOUNTAIN, Dec. IL, 1874.