Nathan Sargent from Henry Hitchcock, May 8, 1839

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Mobile 8 May 1839

My Dear Sir,

You will be surprised at what I am about to write.  You were advised by me from day to day & even from hour to hour of my negotiation with the B.U.S. [Bank of the United States] in May last, & if I am not greatly mistaken will remember that I told you that the object of the B. in advancing the additional sum of 100,000$ was as to improve the account ground mortgaged to them as to raise the amt equal to the interest & then to sell out as fast as time would admit without transferring the property & that as to that the B. would not expect me to pay faster then the next 2 weeks from the property would give me means, now I returned [?] & in less than six mos. invested the money & raised the amount 28,000 But lo! it now seems that the B. looks to its Bond & demands of