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at this time, to leave the Freedmen without the protection of Government, nor, to refuse them the benefit of voluntary benevolent societies. Think of the miserable wretched condition of many at this time. In the freedmens camp at Macon I saw a large number living in open rail pens. Pens built six or seven rails high, with rails on brush and mud for roof, ground floor, and a few rails raised a little above ground on which to sleep.  One poor old man who had been there but a few days, came to us, and with tears in his eyes, asked if we could give him something with which to cover himself at night.  The benevolent volunteer aid societies, having the protection of Government, should come here at once, and erect hospitals for the sick, homes for the aged and infirm, and Asylums for the orphaned and Abandoned