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five years of war she suffered alone through thick & thin with adversity contending with impressment officers (who took nearly half her stock) & tax collectors.  Four months since she took charge of her plantation at the request of her old servants, who after living one year without her, were rallying around & urging her to come and take charge of them.  She found them in rags & poorly - & since that time she has spent much of her time in fitting them up and making them comfortable.  Every evening of her life is spent in teaching them for which of course she gets no compensation.  She has those upon her place who are infirm & helpless and she feels that to neglect them would be to see them die unassisted.  She is sacrificing health & comfort for a missionary work among the negroes, striving to elevate them & influence them to be industrious and honest.  She will be obliged to buy meat for her laborers & dependents, her cotton held against her positive orders, & all her operations now all upon a borrowed