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asked, cannot these people find employment by which to subsist themselves. I reply that there are thousands who cannot now do so. Of the estimated twenty thousand widows and sixty thousand orphans in Alabama whose husbands and fathers fell in the late bloody conflict, three fourths at least dwell in the cabins of the poor. Add to these the sisters mothers and aged fathers whose brothers and sons, the natural protectors upon whom they had expected to lean for support, are no longer left them, and we find a startling number of helpless and dependent people, in sections of country where there are no wealthy neighbors to give them employment or assistance and no factories, work shops or manufacturing establishments to which they may apply for work.

Hundreds of these people are to day beging for work greatly prefering to labor for their support rather than receive the food gratuitously