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to rely on the counties.

If the counties were entirely able, the time that must necessarily elapse before organization could be completed, on a scale to meet the present, & pressing demand, would result in unavoidable suffering. But the inability of the Counties is clear & patent to meet this duty at present. The right arm of national supplies - agriculture - is & has been for three years paralyzed here. And while but a scanty supply was yielded, that little, was devoured & wasted by the soldiers up to the time of the surrender. Then it was too late to seed to advantage; and the dry weather of the past season crowned the climax of disasters, by cutting off entirely the late planting.

Furthermore; the rebels burned almost all the cotton in North