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Erath County Correspondence - Brown/Smith Family Submitted by Jim Boyter Erath Co On this stationary M.A. Brown (Erath Co) wrote a letter to cousin Christopher Columbus Smith on the benefits of moving to Texas.
*OFFICE OF* M. A. BROWN MACHINIST*AND* DEALER IN MACHINERY AND MACHINERY SUPPLIES Dublin, Texas,___________1894
Columbus I dont want to flater you non no one on earth and cause them to come to Texas but any one can live easy here if they will try If a man will come here and mind his own business and work he can make a living easy here But however the are many falls and tumbles here for a man than anywhere unless he minds his own Strickly Stealing horse Theives hog Theives hors hore mongers Liars Li sur.. Purgury mean low down Rascals is the order of the Day a gentleman is considered the Dam rascal By all the rest and a good Sivil Sober nice young man who was to keep deasent company, gets as much thanky for his honesty or more as the one who has served a term of 5 or 10 years in the Pin for horse Stealing and for a honest man to be taken up to court house and get justice its is never the case for a morgority of the jurrors are Theaves and they make it a rule to go for the inosent to take Spite out of them If you come only now as I do I would not try to explain but nearly every Bodie who come here are dissatisfied at the start after one or two years they see it is so easy to make a living they would not Leave in any way it could be fixed If you come only Bear this in mind every man here has bin tride and is a low down horse thief If you will Bear this in mind it is no truble to Make a living here and I an... So well experanced all over the State I use to think I new 3 honest men in the State But resently I cut off... and I am all most a feard to Say I now of any at all But they all want to be called honest and have the name of gentle men But out side ... The wimen are just as bad I dont now of But one virtiueous one in the state
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