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the payment of rent which is higher here than in the country, which pressure acts upon and serves in a large measure to disperse the idle & unemployed.

It would however be unjust to many very worthy widowed women who have large families who, poorly off as they are here, can do no better elsewhere, who have no assurance of getting employment away from here, have not the means (besides transportation) of moving and setting up new homes in other parts, and who are, withal, too weak-minded and ignorant to discern and act according to their best interests.  This class demand sympathy, firm but tender and patient treatment, and, in the distribution of gratuities should be the most favored; although it is not always easy to discriminate.  Now that the last crop is exhausted, and the most trying months of the year, as to food are upon us, I fear that the emigration interest will cease to thrive as it has prospered, it is already diminishing, and think that, both as a legitimate inducement, and to meet an actual necessity it