Viewing page 244 of 266

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

pintchings of hunger and nakedness are beginning to be felt are stealing hogs, sheep, robbing our garden potatoe patches and thus depriving the more honest and industrious of the means of support for another year.  I have on my farm more than thirty helpless women and children, left, most of them by their husbands to grown up  [[?]], and how I am to maintain them, God only knows, if this thieving and vagrancy are to continue.  We have no police, and no restraint whatever is put upon the vicious and the dishonest and if a threat is given, they complain to the Military Authorities, who give us written notice that no discipline is to be used except by them and they are many miles from us.  My dear sir, what are we to do, what are we to do I  am an old man in my 63rd year