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NARA 152

Sub Rosa Hinds Co "Miss"
25th Dcbr/67

Maj. S.S. Sumner 
In Command Jackson "Miss"

Jno M. Greaves
Judge of Peace

Sir
For two years the Freedmen on this place refuse to be managed by contract or otherwise and consequently ruin to us all on it is the consequence! 

I am unable to carry on the Planting business any longer! I have a good Plantation in best of repair so far as the buildings are concerned, good water & wood in abundances at hand, from twenty five to thirty full hands can be successfully employed in the cultivation of cotton & corn -

There are nearly negros enough on the place to cultivate it and they could be employed on reasonable terms but what would that amount to in any ones favour unless "the Bureau" will gurantee systimatic labour? Give to me "a file of Soldiers" & the credit for supplies for this place and I'll underwrite a product of seven (450 lbs) bales of cotton & 150 Bush corn & Potatos to the hand!

Order must be mentained for successful operations on a plantation! The operatives must be under subjection and move in the discharge of orders as promptly & efficiently as the Soldiers in a successful campaign. I can not see what are to become of us unless you can give asistance we are all broke & dispirited - 

The whites & the Blacks distrust