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one fair crop so as to secure a competent supply of actual necessaries for one year in advance, they would after that be comparatively independent. Not only the men and boys, but the women and girls are willing to work in the field, as many of them have done, if they can have the means and opportunity. But his cannot be done, without bread or other means of living, while the crops are being cultivated. Never in this world probably, have there been more innocent sufferers from war, than the generality of these poor and destitute people; the great majority of them being women and children, including of course, many widows and orphans. Never therefore was a juster and more meritorious appeal presented to the American people, than is made in behalf of these destitute people. The system at one time adapted at issuing daily rations, while probably justified by the peculiar circumstances at the time, did not work well, and left very many of the most needy and deserving unassisted; and the bounty intended for the