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fields or elsewhere, under the pretense of sickness would impose upon the truly industrious the work which all should equitably divide.

Another condition in the same clause would seem to meet the exigency; but it is at times difficult to   procure a Physician and is the harsher alternative.

I have thus far submitted to you the contract under which the laborers on my place have lived since July last. They have been I believe as contented and happy as their suddenly changed condition would permit. But few losses have been sustained by robbery-no serious difficulties have occurred, and the crop answers all reasonable expectations.
I have never been obliged to call in the assistance of an officer and have been sustained in the few matters submitted to the authorities. In the emancipation of the negro, I recognized an entire change in the industrial material of the South and a necessarily corresponding change in the manner