33

MONDAY, 1862

ladies prices theres a feeling of se-
curity that nothing else does.
They implore us to stay with [dress?]
for they are "confused" militant
white ladies around. The discontent
on Parts and Shapes is so great
that they have had to arrest
men, & they got no work
done except by [illegible]. There will
soon be bad work there I think.
It was on that plantation one of
the sixteen, [2 words illegible] I think
which two young men have
charge of that the old woman
said to me that they were
tender & good, unlike the young
masters who talked all the time
aboug work - work I "confused" their
Part. looks like a [friend incarnate?]
& [Thorp?] is garrulous & weak - nei-
ther of them very anti slavery