Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-03-28

bete Ncia iiLssdttu 5th lOtAu W
Journal called The National Freedmen. which is
making az appeal for contributions 10 help allie
viate the suherings Of the negroes who have re
Gently been torn from their homes, and the old
plantations. !" by the bard necessities of war.
Piquette's Report Of Hospitals At New Or
leans:
Il have nov under ms charge nearly eight
hundred cOlOred persons of both sexes, and OF
all ages. most Of them sick end many Of them
destitute
Briggs Report. Newberne. n. C.:
There is extreme restitution"
Gen. Saxtons Circular, Beaufort, 5 c.
They have arrived the coast after long
marches and severe priyatioDs, weary, famished,
sick and almost naked. Seven hundred Of these
eretched people arrived at Beaufort Christmas
night, in a state Of misery which would have
moved to pity heart of stone and these are the
advance Of host no less destitute.
THE stores Of The government already over
taxed to supply large army. are not available 20
relieve their wants and unless the chsrity of the
north comes speedily to the rescue, they must
die by hundreds from exposure and disease"
Miss MerTick's Report, Fernandns, Fla:
a more wretched looking company could not
be pictured than these with their plantation rags
aud bare feet II was hard to turn any away,
but We could do no better than do SO, with word
of hope, which received with poor grace by
those TO whom It came, unaccompaned by ma
terial aid. When one is hungry or naked BIZ
BILE or hymn book don't exactly satisfy"
Colonel EatOn's report Tennessee:
" Our efforts TO do anything for these people,
as they herdcd together in masses, when found
ed on any expec, alton that ,hey would help
themselves, often failed; they had become so
completely broken down In spirit, through suf
ferng, that Il was almost impossible to arouse
them. The camp at Youug's point. during the
summer OF 1863, had been vast charual house
thousands of the people dying. without well
ones enough to bgry the dead .
Report Of Executive Committee:
The increased suffering among the freedmen.
resulting from the expeditions OF Gen. Sherman
ana others, have brought within our reach mul
titudes of wretched men, women and children.
whose needs mnst he met by large shipments and
by the most speedy means OF conveyance
Rev. L. W Lewis Letter, Beaufort:
Two thousand Of them freedmen have ar
rived al Beaufort, and are encamped in bough
houses in the woods in this vicinity They can
earn their own living on the plantations as soon
as spring opens Government gives them one
ration per pay for the present, but they are very
destitute Of bedding. clothes. cooking utensils
everything
MTc. ouuS : ictIcIb Dtl tOu pisulatiOns
We have besn importuned by newly arrived
contrabands for wearing apparel well as food
until we have given vesything We could spare
and have also purchased new for them; bu. the
/ demand increases with every new arrival from
] Savannah have had two packages and one
| box from the north, sent for them, which was
| Immediately disposed of, but that only
| drop in the bucket. They come to the ladies in
de big house. and their cry is: Do, for God ::
sake, misses 81 we warm colt; se can't stan
dis; we perish; We hunger; We toss about dis way
en- dat, till we sick. and dc col wedder 30 hare
We perish and when de snkee took we. he nc
lie, me take anything on y jest what we hab on we
an we hab no place TO 60.
These poor creatures have been torn from
homes. such they were, where they had a
least such comforts as they we're bred to. Blu
appeals for helping them. we fear. come upon u
At very inoppOrtune moment, when the liberal
ity of the humane will be taxed to the utmost t,
alley te the suferings which must be eutaileC
upon thousands of poor white families here a
home. by the enforcement of the CONSUMPTION