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Help for the Freedmen.
To the Editor of The Union:

Within a month past the American Freedmen's Friend Society, under the auspices of the Freedmen's Bureau, removed over fifty destitute freedmen from Richmond, Va., consisting of men, women, and children. and provided suitable homes and competent wages in families in this city and county, and our only regret is that our number was not equal to the pressing demand, especially for women and children, and this when we have the authority to say that some thousands of women and children must inevitably perish this winter in Virginia unless relieved by Northern benevolence.

The Society propose to relieve all they can this winter that can be supplied with homes as servants in families in the city and country and as laborers upon our farms. Many of the males possess much agricultural and mechanical skill, such as blacksmiths, wagon and harness makers, and with our advanced knowledge will prove valuable acquisitions to our system of labor in the country. Those of our citizens who are willing to aid the Society in the continuance of their philanthropic, worthy work, will leave their address at 290 Bridge street. We append our grateful acknowledgements to the ladies of the Colored Orphan Asylum in New York for giving shelter and home and the full blessings of their noble institution to a number of children, in order to enable their willing, suffering mothers to earn their own subsistence. Some of these mothers are now earning from eight to twelve dollars per month who but a few days ago had nothing but suffering and utter destitution before them. One affectionate mother, in giving up her two children — one from the breast — though bathed in tears, blessed God that her eyes ever beheld such an institution, and said, "Oh, that my children might have shared its blessings years ago." This woman is now earning twelve dollars per month in one of our esteemed Brooklyn families.

We also append our grateful thanks to the Rev. H. Ward Beecher for $87; Rev. Dr. Budington, $10; Dr. George I. Bennet, $1; by a lady, one dozen ladies' new 
under-garments; by Mrs. Wilson, of Henry street, New York, twenty pairs of stockings; by Mrs. Bird, two pounds of tea; by Mrs. Ely, soup and meats.

Rev. J. N. GLOUCESTER,
No. 290 Bridge street.

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