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f.J\TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN,And especially to Ebenezer Ayer.It appears, Mr. Ayer, that your secret man* oeuvering is like to come out, and you now are attempting to get rid of your own responsibili-• ties by denying your note. But why do you bring my note in question, when you well rjknew that that had no connection with yeu b j-drcher. You knew that the note signed by me was torn up and burned in your own pres-encs, and well might you say you did not ex-amine it afterwards. No, sir; you thought that Archer was a more responsible man than my-.self, and that it would be safer to borrow in company with him thaD me, that you could rjtake the advantage of my contract, and slip in and borrow the money to speculate upon, and leave poor L. J, to shift for himself, but unfortunately the interest is not paid, and you now put your seal to a denial of your note. You must have forgotten that Francis Shumard witnessed the note given by you and Archer. He eaye you took him privately to your desk and requested him to witness the note,—that you complained to him at the time that you was to have been the security, but that the other name was signed ct the lower seel, and you signed at the upper, and he witnessed the note as to yen, but not as to Archer—that ysu requested him to keep it a secret. Now what 1 will you do with Mr. Shumard? But you may; j not have got the money, as you state, though ;(if your partner got it, good or bad, that is your own business, not mine. But what caused so much uneasiness with you cbout the time the interest became due? VYhat causedyou to sell your house and lot to a man that you knew had taken the benefit of the insolvent’s act, and why did you sacrifice your tinning too!3 and go off to Illinois? Was it not because the interest of your note was coming due? And what caused you to be so shy when you came back to Batavia, net to call and see the man that had defended you and your character, when B. R. Blair published you a liar? Was it not because you had done something that you were ashamed of?LEMUEL JOHN. ♦I do hereby certify that Frances Shumard did state in my presence that he witnessed a note of one thousand dollars, at the request of E. Ayer, who signed his name to said note in his presence above another name which ha did not read, that said note was mads payable to Josiah Osborne, that at the time Mr. Ayar said that the other man was to have signed it first, but that he had signed it below—he further stated that Mr. A. took him to one side to witness the note, and requested him te not say any thing about it—this about the first of December, 1837—he witnessed it as to Ayer but not as to the other. Given under my hand and seal this the 11th day of August, 1839.Signed. E. HAWLEY.
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The Clermont Courier
Batavia, Ohio, US
Sat, Aug 17, 1839
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