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Allow me sir, as a sincere friend to the negro race, while I would be just to the whites, to make known to you the fact that our city is crowded with helpless women and children. Many of them not inclined to work, and others; cannot find employment. They are now suffering some of them, and on the approach of cold weather will many of them be bound to freeze if something is not done. They come there from the country above, and stop because they dont want [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] be sent the freed mens camp. Many able, thriving, men too, are with them, who have forfeited their control and left their houses, who ought to be put to work. Can their not be something done on this subject? If I can be of any service, in any arrangement you want to make, it can be given at your becking. Their are some white men who have not done all they were bound to do, who are so distant from Montgomery that could be controled from this point. The important thing is to attend to the cases of suffering. I have not time to coppy this as the Heed is about to start yours H J Williams