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to be found united in one person.—And when we 
look round and see the many drunken, ignorant, il¬ 
literate, dissolute, unprincipled Characters, to whom 
the charge of Property is confided, (sometimes by 
the careless, or less conscientious, Attornies of ab¬ 
sent Proprietors), it is no wonder the Estate goes 
to ruin and destruction. 
In my choice of a Manager, I would, contrary to 
the system of many people, prefer a married Man— 
and that for a variety of reasons :—the objection 
“ that he will require more servants 55 is a very idle 
one. What a portion of attendance do we not see 
exacted by a coloured Mistress !—A prudent white 
Wife will voluntarily occupy herself among the sick 
Slaves :—Her affection to her husband will induce 
her to do it, to ease him of the burthen : Your 
Estate will be the domestic seat of order and deco¬ 
rum, instead of drunkenness, revelry and riot: — 
And the Manager will of course be more attached 
to his home, where domestic comfort awaits his ar¬ 
rival, than he who returns to the taunts of an ex¬ 
torting coloured Concubine, or any imperious fe¬ 
male Slave selected from your gang; who, with 
the whole of her family and connexions, must be 
pampered and indulged, and thus spread jealousies, 
murmurs, and discontent, throughout all the other 
Negroes of the Plantation. 
* 
It is, however, but justice to admit, although I 
am no advocate for the open libertinism which is too 
charitably glanced over in this Clime, nor solicitous 
of 
