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4pp manuscript letter on laid paper, undated but first quarter of the 19th century. Addressed to Horace in Cincinnati/To the President and Directors of the U. States Bank in Philad. The text is quite interesting and reads as follows: While weekly kneeling at your feet,/A thousand easy suppliants must/For discounts, or to bless you/For all your former favours shown:/Permit a bard but little known/Right humbly to address you:/But know in passant, for myself/I wish?d not, needed not yourself,/I therefore dis not ?:/I volunteer for those to plead/Who dis, and by that thoughtless deed,/Involved themselves in sorrow./In Sorrow not in Ruin-mind;/I speak with caution, as I find/The debts of most amounted/To twice as much as they were worth,/When first to you they strutted forth,/To get their bills discounted. Page Break. But still I cautiously condemns,/Nor throw the blame alone on them,/Though shrewder and politer;/Because to state the simply fact,/Both parties seem?d resolv?d to act/The play of ?Bit the Biter.?/Instead of undisputed cash,/To give them Western Bank note trash,/They own?d extremely funny;/Receiv?d it-humbly made their bow-/And in return, permit you now/To whistle for your money./What tho? there be a guardian court,/Of rank aristocratic sort./To favor your pretensions:/Against them still to paint the laws,/How just soe?er may be their cause,/Thus ending all distention?s;/Yet Page Break. Yet must you take special care;/For while they greet you ?passing fair,?/With smiles, congees and thank ye?s/And all your views and plans commend, You?ll find them mostly in the end. The Genuine Patent Yankees./They?re cotts of nettle, strength and speed,/And tame as lambs to ride or lead;/But if you aim to drive them/They rear, and jump, and snort and run,/And spurn the ground-till ten to one./If those who guide, survive them/To drop the metaphor-in short,/They?ll lead you on from court to court/By legal fair pretemes,/Till wearied with the long pursuit/You?ll (rue) their tricks, dismiss each suit,/And pay the whole expenses. Page Break. Or, drive it through a course of law-/And all the wealth which late you saw,/Your debtor?s homes adorning,/Will pass away like fever dreams,/Or, heated Apollo?s beams,/The sombre fogs of morning./They also think, in your dispite,/E?n Clay is not an angel quite;/Whatever you may think him, here/And that his weak and wavering plan,/Since first your mammoth bank began,/Must e?er it raises, sink him./Then take one lesson from a bard,/Who hands it forth without reward:/As each to pay refuses, No longer wh??, sue, or threat,/But generously forgive each debt,/And let him pay who chooses./Declare This poem is likely referring to the Second Bank of the United States, which was one of the major political issues of Andrew Jackson`s presidency, circa 1820s, folded single letter sheet on laid paper, entitled Horace in Cincinnati dedicated To the President and Directors of the U. States Bank in Philad., a manuscript 22 stanza poem signed Deslare.

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