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In Georgia, a merchant’s clerk, Irish by birth, who simply asked the settlement of a just debt, was cast into prison, robbed of his pocket-book containing nearly one hundred dollars, and barely escaped with life.
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Sumner narrates the harrowing experience of an Irish clerk in Georgia who was imprisoned and robbed for simply seeking a debt settlement.
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