April 1, 1863
Pleasant, but cold. Town filling up with people to do business and make contracts for the new year. All is tied to money--it is the real God that people truly worship. It takes more people to hell than to heaven. It makes more miserable than happy. Yet it is necessary to maintain the peace, without a common denomoninator, all would be chaos.
Several of my tenants have left me, not paying their rent, and leaving the property in a wretched state.