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I* Our progress ' prosperity'-was Blow. No education or accomplUh-J roents to help us in building up your town. We lived hard, fought ' and battled for the right, and each one tried to build up hU fortunes. Wo did not live In a last age as the people now enjoy, it required ycare to buildup a name and fortune, and in those slow days of progress, no clerks i became bankers in a few years. No insurance companies protected our • homes, no mysterious murders were I committed and 110 lotteries patronized and I think if Mr. M., will step down one or two rouncfe from the pinnacle, on which his egotism and self-conceit has placed him, and will give a true account of his fore-fathers, and then write up the present standing of Americus, giving the good and bad interwoven, as it deserves after having fifty years for improvement, I think he will sec that he has struck the wrong vein, and his talents must be in another quarter than writing up, the first settlers of a town, which has raised him from a poor boy to what he now occupies, und tliat his infor-niatiou should come from a more reliable source than that obtained from one whose name was cleared from the court docket last spring, for the first in thirty years, for a certain misdemeanor. With your permission, I will in a short time give you a correct and true statement of the first settlers of Americus. Thanking you foryonr indulgence, I am respectfully, Patrick Brady.
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Americus Weekly Sumter Republican
Americus, Georgia, US
Fri, Oct 21, 1881
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