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would not suffer for more until I would be enabled to send it to you - You also wrote that you had lent Enes $30.00 and I well Knew that if you should need it before I could send it that he would promtly furnish it to you 
Now I would like to Know in what particular I have shown any disposition like trying to Keep you from handleing the money I send home or in what instance I have ever failed in furnishing you with all the money I could possibly send home  Sarah you accuse me of not being willing to let you have enoughf to Support our little family on. These charges sink like a dagger to my heart for I think I have done all in my power to make you all cumfortable and happy.  When I receive your letters in which you tell me of your sufferings the tears often blinds my eyes so that I cannot See to read them.  And they Stimulate me to harder exertions and cause me to often deny myself many cumforts so that I can save the more to Send to you to help relieve your sore afflictions.  And when I was making arrangements to purchase you a cumfortable home so that you could live independent in that particular at least and then to receive such a letter as this from you Sally it goes deeply in my heart.
You Speak of the hard times and the certainty of a Commercial Panic as sure to follow and that our Goverment money now being only worth 75 cts on the dollar.  Now pause and consider if money invested in Real estate where it can be put in at 100 cts on the dollar is not Safer than to lend it out at 10 pr. cent interest even if you did not want to use the property, for panics do not sink land.  And as long as I Stay here My wages will be no less and panicks or convulsions do not affect it 
As I before Stated if Husted did not make the trade the money is at your disposal and no one els can get it without your consent not even myself
Now in regard to the money I sent to Van, I consider that as honorable a debt as any I ever owed after it turned out that the security we gave was not responsible.  And just here I will mention that you ask me that a judgement or an execution could do against me when I am not worth 800.00 in the world I believe I have a good reputation in Union Co. for honesty at least.  Now is a mans reputation worth anything or is it not.  By your way of writing I infer that you think not
The next thing is you attact a man and use the most foul epithets that the english language is capable of furnishing about one who is and has been as good a friend not only to me but to yourself as any we have on earth and one who has particularly befriended you and always Spoken well of you and taken your part on evry occasion. You say that as soon as your back was turned he must begin to try to get my money out of me.  I will say that he wrote to me on that Subject many weeks before you ever mentioned about going to your fathers.  And even after there was an execution in the hands of the Sheriff I sent you one installment of money, and I am just as much bound for the debt as he is or was and he had already more than paid his proportion of it.  Had it not been that he put in Security to Stay the execution the money I sent to you was liable to be Seized at the Express office by the Sheriff and as you say times are hard and at that Season of the year money is hard to get consequently he could not raise all of it. And I will Sell the last thing I have on earth before I will let Security Suffer if by selling anything I can make them safe

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would not suffer for more until I would be enabled to send it to you - You also wrote that you had lent Enes $30.00 and I well Knew that if you should need it before I could send it that he would promtly furnish it to you Now I would like to Know in what particular I have shown any disposition like trying to Keep you from handleing the money I send home or in what instance I have ever failed in furnishing you with all the money I could possibly send home Sarah you accuse me of not being willing to let you have enoughf to Support our little family on. These charges sink like a dagger to my heart for I think I have done all in my power to make you all cumfortable and happy. When I receive your letters in which you tell me of your sufferings the tears often blinds my eyes so that I cannot See to read them. And they Stimulate me to harder exertions and cause me to often deny myself many cumforts so that I can save the more to Send to you to help relieve your sore afflictions. And when I was making arrangements to purchase you a cumfortable home so that you could live independent in that particular at least and then to receive such a letter as this from you Sally it goes deeply in my heart. You Speak of the hard times and the certainty of a Commercial Panic as sure to follow and that our Goverment money now being only worth 75 cts on the dollar. Now pause and consider if money invested in Real estate where it can be put in at 100 cts on the dollar is not Safer than to lend it out at 10 pr. cent interest even if you did not want to use the property, for panics do not sink land. And as long as I Stay here My wages will be no less and panicks or convulsions do not affect it As I before Stated if Husted did not make the trade the money is at your disposal and no one els can get it without your consent not even myself Now in regard to the money I sent to Van, I consider that as honorable a debt as any I ever owed after it turned out that the security we gave was not responsible. And just here I will mention that you ask me that a judgement or an execution could do against me when I am not worth 800.00 in the world I believe I have a good reputation in Union Co. for honesty at least. Now is a mans reputation worth anything or is it not. By your way of writing I infer that you think not The next thing is you attact a man and use the most foul epithets that the english language is capable of furnishing about one who is and has been as good a friend not only to me but to yourself as any we have on earth and one who has particularly befriended you and always Spoken well of you and taken your part on evry occasion. You say that as soon as your back was turned he must begin to try to get my money out of me. I will say that he wrote to me on that Subject many weeks before you ever mentioned about going to your fathers. And even after there was an execution in the hands of the Sheriff I sent you one installment of money, and I am just as much bound for the debt as he is or was and he had already more than paid his proportion of it. Had it not been that he put in Security to Stay the execution the money I sent to you was liable to be Seized at the Express office by the Sheriff and as you say times are hard and at that Season of the year money is hard to get consequently he could not raise all of it. And I will Sell the last thing I have on earth before I will let Security Suffer if by selling anything I can make them safe