New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-12

We copy from the Boston Transcript:
Mnnu nnnnala frnnn Snnth Carnlina


Many appeals from South Carolina for
help are before US, from which we copy the
following: One teacher well known TO Bos-
ton writes, 90 On this plantation there is not
a peck of corn or q pound of meat The
superintendent of the schools on st. Helena
writes, "There are many orphans here who
came with Sherman's army; they wander
from house to house in utter wretchedness.
l think if each had the gift of bag of corn
it would enable those with whom they have
stayed to keep them. l have also colony
of old paupeTs, utterly deCrepid; they take
all my means and more"
Says a teacher on Port Royal in a letter of
June II, 1.-THE suffering is the same as when
| closed my school two months ago on &C
count of the famine. The crops now only
need care to promise an abundant harvest,
but almost every man able to work is
obliged to abandon his own field to procure
something for himself and family to eat.'
Writes Bureau teacher from the same
island, "If the people who sit in Northern
| homes round their Widespread tables aud
look into the laughing eyes of their house.
| hold pets, could only peep into the cabins
here, and see the woeful looks the empty
hominy pot, the sunken cheeks and hollow
| eyes, their hearts would melt, and their
| charity take practical form. The poor cry
| and there are none to heaT-We sulter and
| languish-fOr corn Corn!'
| A physician on the main land writes;
"There is nothing but absolute want aud
| misery in every direction. 1t Is a complete
| famine; if the people are not assisted, death
by hundreds must be the result
A clergyman in charge OF the Methodist
| Episcopal church, on the Beaufort circuit,
says: IA list of hundred aged, crippled,
and helpless freedmen Is before me, all
| asking for bread. With q sad heart aud
weeping eye / am obliged to turn deaf
ear to their sad cry. Friends, invoke your
sympathies in their behalf Corn, corn
| Bread, bread is what they need
An appeal signed by ten farmers and
planters on the Main, says: whole tamI
lies here have died of starvation
All crops failed last year; the caterpillar
devOured the cotton; floods drowned the
corn: merchants will not sell food 10 the
freedmen on trust; the bureau has with
drawn physical aid, hence the cali for char
tty. Crops promise well this year. ana
could the freedmen have aid Just now Sc
they could return to their own fields anC
work their own crops it would raise then
from despair, give them new lie, ami al
once end the famine there.
Writes prominent member Of the lat
Constitutional Convention, who resides a
Beaufort. June %: " can not express ny
anxiety to save this crop, there are so MANI
who want it lost that the condition OF thi
freedmen may be more hopeless. do no
mean that many will starve and de bu
this valuable crop Will BE- lost, and then u
shall hear on all sides, The lazy creature
are not TT to live, they ought to die; we vii
be better off without them; / knew it wOulJ
be Just so; did | not tell you they coulC
never take care OF themselves
Let this cry for bread. coming from the
lips of those who gave their last loaf to the
martyrs of Andersonville aud salisbury
reach the hearts aud pockets OF those who
have the silver and gold, the corn ant
wheat, and evoke such a response as shall
bring down upon themselves the blessing O
many ready to perish,