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of it - say one bank. 

Your Goverment will not be the poorer to make a donation of it to me for the purpose I have indicated. 

You may ask, who is the petitioner, who thus comes to ask so large or so small a bounty? Briefly - allow me to say - I am but an humble citizen - have spent over thirty years laboriously in the arduous work of teaching the youth of the country, in both Male and Female Colleges and schools, and in the Gospel ministry. When the war commenced I was President of an Agriculture College at Montpelier, 16 miles from Macon. Unfortunately - I sold that property at an inauspicious price. - For my personal character - allow me respectfully to refer you to their Honors - Alexander H. Stephens and Herschel V. Johnson. Your answer can be given thro the Augusta Post Office - care of