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Our chief reliance for the present trying emergency is in an increase of the supplies furnished by the Government.  I appeal to you, therefore, in behalf of the starving poor of the State, and invoke the aid of that influence which you have heretofore so generously exerted to procure them food, in securing a further increase of these much needed supplies.  I think I may safely add that an increase of fifty per cent. to the present estimate would by no means suffice to meet the pressing demands of those who daily cry for bread.

In the small precinct of a Justice of the Peace, thirty families, representing two hundred persons, chiefly widows and orphans, have made application under oath for relief on the ground of destitution. 

In another county, a State Senator of some prominence who had brought corn for distribution purchased with funds raised by him for that purpose, issued to five hundred families for one month, and reported his supply insufficient. 

Were I to resort to individual