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I before said that provisions could be collected from ^[[the farmers]] I mean that portion of the crop that belongs to the Orphan. And then we have a good many women, Who have large families, And no husband, and may as a class may be counted Orphans, for , I assure you these women & children will want as much looking after, as any colored people in our land, take those two classes together, and they will give a  large number of the destitute; I think if you will ^[[have]] a proper agent for the colored people, and establish a home for them ,and have their provisions collected together, and have some sistem in the use of them a large sum will be saved to the general government.

For unless you have some place for them to collect They will all be pouring into you at Raleigh by the 1st of January, and in a very short time the fuel a lone would cost as much as the home would, and at this home, they can have wood without allowance, and comfortable houses to live in, and many of them made to support themselves, by strict vigilance over them, many of them who would always live in idleness if left a lone, would be induced to work where every body was at work around them, But Some of them would have to be made to work or they will die in idleness