...uld rather they should starve than our own people suffer. I suppose I can safely put it in writing, Let them suffer. Very truly, your faithful friend, Ro. Ould. Colonel A. C. Myers. Judge Ould says that he does not remember ever to have written such a letter, and we have searched his letter-book (in which he was accustomed to have all of his letters copied) in vain for the slightest trace ...