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well, but they are wholly unsupplied with the necessary means, and their well known improvidence in addition, must lead to much suffering among them. Everywhere throughout the County, when they can obtain permission, you see little rude huts erected in isolated and barren localities, and all of them promising anything but comfort and happiness to their mistaken inmates. It may be that with the actual presence of want and starvation, there will be a returning sense of reason; and it is to be hoped so, for, if this demoralization is as wide spread and continued as it is now to be feared, no plan that the Government can adopt, in its widest benevolence, will afford adequate relief.

The Commissioners Court of this County have an Agent, and a competent one, to whom they pay a stated salary, and whose business it is to acquaint himself with the actual indigence of the County, and to relieve it accordingly. The plan has proven a good one, and I can suggest no better, if it be the intention to supply Rations. I have thought myself, humble[[?]], and I submit the opinion respectfully, that the efforts of the Government to relieve distress at the South might be so directed as to secure more permanence in the benefit conferred, and thus be made, as I am