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suffice to destroy it. Lieut O'Brien should have at least 30 men immediately to ensure the security of the property under his charge.

I was much pleased with the care and neatness of everything about the buildings and fields - so superior to what is found on plantations generally. "A place for everything and everything in its place" seems to be the motto - and well lived up to.

The idea that a "nigger wont work without a white man to watch him" is well negatived [[strikethrough]] here [[/strikethrough]]. Lieut O'Brien has no overseers. Squads of men go out to labor in charge of some of their own number, do their work and return; when one job is completed another is begun under the same direction. Indolence and "shirking" are rare, and are punished not by whipping, but by a stoppage of wages, and scarce ever does the

Transcription Notes:
negatived = negated