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me, that a physician traveling through the country alone know the amount of poverty and wretchedness existing among the population. he said sometimes a planter would support an aged or infirm negroe who formerly belonged to him, but that oftener he was left to the charity of the negroes about him, and if sick as was generally the case thrown on the humanity of the physician who was unrecompensed save by his own conscience, Sometimes a negro woman, with a whole family of children, would owe her support to the pity of some farmer, perhaps a poor man himself, in these cases, either the father had deserted the family, or the children were mulattoes of unknown, or uncertain paternity. Dr Savage related to me many cases of distress among the whites, he told me many families lived out in the woods, without any visible means of subsistence, and that many although miserably poor were yet too proud to ask or accept assistance as destitute persons, but these people, he added when their scanty stock of corn was exhausted, as it would be in a very short time, would have to