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39 Park Row.
New York Feb'y 21st 1867

Col C.C. Sibley:

Dear Sir:
The Southern Relief Commission feel under great obligation for the interest you have so promptly and kindly shown in the work instructed to them; and I write you now to ask a favor of which we are in immediate and pressing need.

The prevailing spirit of the South is not such as to stimulate the largest amount of giving on the part of the people of the North, for its relief; and statements of destitution received from purely Southern sources do not command the respect necessary