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of wholesale conscription, exempting certain individuals by a system of details which was put in force here, was exceedingly convenient for the wealthy, and threw the great burden of peril and exposure upon the lower classes. It is considered that of these forty thousand persons from eighteen to fifty years of age, one half were heads of families averaging three persons each. These persons, nearly all of the poorer classes, have been almost utterly impoverished by the destruction of property of all kinds by war. To these sixty thousand white widows and orphans are to be added to other infirm white persons, made destitute by war or otherwise, and all such helpless freed men, women, and children as fail to find a shelter with those of the wealthier class, for and with whom their lives were spent. In all, it is fairly estimated that these several classes, petitioners from whom are moving all parts of the country, and of whom woe-be-gone