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[1865]

Thursday evening

Mr Cameron

You had not left one hour before Mr Southerland was over to see you to report the Stagville hands had refused to cut any more wheet with out a bargain for their pay for
the work will not work for so much wheet per day and signify will not work except you give them three fourths of the crop as Mr Mendica does his people I dont
think I am capible of advising you in this matter. Suppose you send Capt. Freeland down and take the Cradles away from them and hire hands in the country to cut it and pay them in wheet so much per day we can feed them on mutton or beef. If the cradles are not taken they will put them out of the way and no others can be had the wheet
is no ready to cut no time to be lost.