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in view of the presence on our shores of a fearful pestilence, which the history of past years, and the lessons of a few months of the present year, lead us to fear will extend over the land, destroying untold lives.
If the Cholera shall be arrested on shipboard so as not to commence its work of death in the land this fall, it is almost certain that the coming spring & summer will see it diseminated through the entire country.

There is reason to fear that we shall not fully escape this fall, and suffer to a much more fearful extent another year.

Holding these views, it is not possible for me to look without concern on the prospects before us - a probable sacrifice of thousands of lives of Freedmen, unless their condition is changed. If the cholera once gains admission to these Camps and crowded Quarters, it is almost certain that the destruction of life will be fearful - possibly in some cases extending almost to annihilation - while, in addition to such a calamity to themselves, it would endanger entire communities.

In the City of Richmond the very unfavorable sanitary condition of the city, owing to a want of proper policing, and the depository of filth and garbage in large masses in some portion of the City - together with the general neglect of measures to secure a healthy condition of the city, renders the crowded condition of quarters still more hazardous.

In view of my conviction on the subject, I beg leave, most respectfully but earnestly to urge the consideration of the question. Whether some plan cannot

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