Viewing page 93 of 242

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

Montgomery: Ala. June 18, 1866

Hon: Charles Summer, United States Senator
Honored Sir, 
I trust the inclosed & your own well known philanthropy, will be my best apology for intruding upon your kind attention the subjoined requests. But, to tell the truth, the within mentioned cases of late coming freedom to decrepid Mothers of large & helpless Families of young Children, have appealed so touchingly to my heart & head in their behalf, that I am not permitted to fear their inefficacy upon your own. If, however, I shall prove otherwise, I pray you pardon my judgement while you command the motive that prompted it.  

It has always seemed to my perhaps somewhat obscured apprehension of the subject, that, in the administration of the Freedman's Bureau, it wd not have been going too far in his philanthropic designs, if out "good Uncle Sam" had taken upon his considerate affections the duty of re-connecting these slave sundered ties, that may be occasionally met with in the South, by furnishing to the poor victims of that ruthless severance the paltry  transportation that may be needed for the politic & benevolent purpose. The very object "our venerable Uncle" has in view, of, as 

Transcription Notes:
SUMNER!!