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man. I'd go up and give him a thorough whipping Try to switch some of the cowardice & baseness out of him. He as a man try to take a woman's dearest treasure from thy. I consider tis a greatly wrong to take ones good name than life itself. I have always kept of character unstained, and it shall not be tarnished till I deserve it. I can't find words to express my contempt for Col O brien.
But I will stop. I would not have minded anything he did or said that was rude. Just considered is not worth notice. But I knew that he succeeded in getting others off his farms whom he did not like, by the same method. Ruined not only their fair name. But predjudiced the Bureau against them. So that they lost their situations.