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19th Sunday I took dinner at Thos Smiths to day and went with him
to see Jack Allin in the evening and from there to Mrs Gibsons and from there
I went to L L Hancocks and got my supper and went from there to Mrs Cotton
and then came home this I call observing the Sabbath agreeable to our own
rules and not the bibles
_ 20th Striping Tobacco again to day
2lst do do
22nd do do
23rd do do 8
2hth I was riding arround this morning hunting teams to haul Tobacco
with I loaded two wagons in the evening
25th I went to Henderson this morning with Tobacco I delivered at I
Clays Factory to be prized lh35 Pounds good Tobacco and llhh Pounds of Lugs
I sold on the street to D R Burbank 285 Pounds good and 275 Lugs at $6 for
good and $5 for Lugs Amt to $30.85 this was the first time I have been in
Henderson for nearly two months and were it not for the Tobacco wagons in the »
streets the place would be allmost lifeless I got through without any difi-
culty to day and intend to stay at home and mind my own business in the
future
26th I went to church this morning Elder Allen Preached went to
L L Hancocks in the evening
27th Went to Henderson to day I delivered a Load of Tobacco good
680 Lugs 65h This was a wet disagreeable day T
28th This was asbeautiful as a spring morning I was about home untill li
noon and went to Dixons mill in the evening ·
29th When I awoke this morning it was raining which soon turned into
a regular snow and to night it is snowing as if to make up all lost time
during the past two months the snow Being now over six inches deep
I have had considerable company lately and to night I feel lonely A
and sad from some cause I can hear from where I am writing the negroes sing-
ing contented and Happy I allmost envy their contented and Happy dispositions
yet one portion of this once powerfull nation seems to be bent on the destruction
of this institution throwing as it were Four Million of this race on their own I
resources who have never been from under the control and guidance of their
masters
That Slavery may be a curse I do not deny but it is a curse to U
the whites and not the negro for I believe a gradual emancipation of the
whole race would be beneficial to both white and black but a wholesale and
im ediate emancipation as proposed by some at the north would be destructive
to the whites while it would place the negro in a worse state than slavery
for the negro with few exceptions is incapable of acting for them-