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stood that the corn we send, is intended for all classes of sufferers and that no class, whether black or white, is to be excluded from its benefits. If the Judges suppose that the gentlemen making up the Southern Famine Relief Policy Commission are what are called "Southern sympathizers" they are utterly mistaken. The Commission is made up of men whose sympathies were wholly northern through all the great conflict, and who are governed by motives of humanity, and those only in helping to supply this present Southern destitution. 
You know best as to the most suitable agencies through which these supplies can be distributed in Georgia, but we hope your influence will be given to prevent everything like unnecessary delay in distributing the corn, and all partiality in the persons selected, to be relieved by it. Hoping soon to send you another ship