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policy under all ordinary circumstances. But then it much be born in mind, that the counties, police districts, and cities are not in condition at present to meet the demands of the suffering poor of Freedmen.  Nor are the people disposed (in many instances even were they able) to make suitable provision for that class of poor already referred to.

Again, such is the bitterness of feeling on the part of many white people that they would rather see the freedmen perish than have the Agent of the Freedmen's Aid Commission come here to afford relief.

But there has not that Aid Commission and other Aid Societies, been organized for the express purpose of doing the work of which we are now speaking.

Allow me to say, That it will not do