As I said before, avoid Hickman's errors; I fear he was too soft, credulous, and easily played upon.

Excess of feeling, in fact, is a bad qualification in an agent.

Humanity is very well in its place; but a strong sense of duty is worth a thousand of it.
It strikes me, that you would do well to put on a manner in your intercourse with the tenants, as much opposed to Hickman's as possible.
Be generally angry, speak loud, swear roundly, and make them know their place.

To bully and browbeat is not easily done with success, even in a just cause, although with a broken-spirited people it is a good gift; but after all I apprehend the best method is just to adapt your bearing to the character of the person you have to deal with, if you wish, as you ought, to arrive at that ascendency of feeling on your part, and subserviency on theirs, which are necessary to keep them in proper temper for your purposes.
"Your receipt for making a forty shilling freeholder contains many excellent ingredients, but I do not think it was honestly drawn up; that is, I believe it to be the production of some one who was not friendly to that system of franchise.

I have little else to say, except that you will find it necessary I think to be very firm and rigorous.