The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-10-30
A word for Big Richmond.

PETERSBURG, October %, 1879.
Editors Dispatch: | have noticed that
some of the Readjusters or the Regulators
of the ReadiustIng party are very much dis
posed to "turn up their noses" at your
city, and this seems strange, as / think it
pays about one seventh of the whole amount
OF the State taxes. The honor existing
among the trading men Of your city is
doubtless a sore pill to many man who is
anxious to get of from paying just debt
il he can only get others to believe that his
excuse is a good one. This Is not the way
some Of your people act, as the writer can
bear testimony. In 1851 (Some twenty-five
years ago) one of your leading manufac-
turers OF tobacco bought OF one OF your
commission houses a lot OF tobacco amoust-
ing to good round sum, and soon after its
purchase events happened which put it be-
yond the power OF said buyer to pay for
such tobacco, and which he fully intended
to do at the time OF the purchase.
The seller, having confidence in the
buyer, did not even ask for a note on learn
ing the inability Of the buyer to meet the
PROMPT payment for the purchase. lne
war broke out, and things of the kind were
IN q measure lost sight of; and after the
war both buyer and seller found themselves
on dead level, and hau to start airesh IN
life. The books OF the seller OF the TOBACCO
were burned in he great Richmond nre OF
AnriI. 19f5. and hence all evidence OF the
debt feyen il 1t had not gone out OF date)
wos lost The seller brought no suit
after the war against the buyer, nor
did the latter take any advantage OF
tho bankrupt act, but applied himself
tn his business, determined, if it was posi-
ble. 10 nav every old debt in the world he
owed-,aot ao,th bankrupt notices, but with
good, honest money. Now, mark you, this
honest manufacturer lost all, and yet after
wards paid one hundred GEMS in the dollar
on q debt contracted some. twenty-five
wears ago, not one cent OF which be was In
| kaao responsible for. He had given no note
or bond for the debt, and Of course it was
entirely ont of date. and yet, like an hon
! est man as he IS, at this late date be comes
TO time with good bard money TO pay q
debt justly mot legally due. wish felt
at liberty to give his name, for the banner
which be carries is one that ought to call
around him the true and honest not only OF
his own State, but the true and honest men
OF every State IN the Union. How different
from party saying :. that it was useless to
sue him on debt he owed. as he would
certainly pay It," and ,then afterwards (suit
not having been brougtn) TDieaded the
statute Of. limitations against such debt.
From WhatT havetwTtten you will doubt
less conclude that ,.'all the honest men are
not dead yet" aud it oGsbtsto be to you q
source OF qualification that you have QUE
such in your city (and doubtless there are
many m0re), who have been tried IN the
fiery furnace Of temptatlon-to wit, stay
laws, bankrupt laws, homestead laws, and
,repudiating OF public contrhcts-and yet
have come forth as the pure stuff. Would
to God we had more such luen, Tor II we had
NReadiusters aud Re2udiat0rs would be as
scarce as Nh Cullocb men: W1n!d like to see
them. so ,t..f &, III -. PET&RsBURG.