Besides this we could show a prosperous business that was making money every year.
I was thus enabled to laugh away the fears of my partners, but none of them rejoiced more than I did that the necessity for opening our lips to anybody about our finances did not arise.

Mr.Coleman, good friend and true, with plentiful means and splendid credit, did not fail to volunteer to give us his endorsements.

In this we stood alone; William Coleman's name, a tower of strength, was for us only.

How the grand old man comes before me as I write.

His patriotism knew no bounds.
Once when visiting his mills, stopped for the Fourth of July, as they always were, he found a corps of men at work repairing the boilers.