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[for the, Richmond Dispatch.]
Last there should be much suffering in our to make the following suggestion. There are many families who were entirely dependent on their husband's labor for a support, and since their absence in the army have been most cheerfully willing to minister to their necessities if the work could be obtained. There are some here who are making from twenty-five to thirty dollars per week on the machine, whose husbands screen themselves from army service by being employees in Government business, and whose salary is therefore more than sufficient for a support, while hundreds are satisfied with three dollars per week. I therefore suggest, as there are so many applicants for work, and so little can be obtained, and the most needy are unable to buy a machine, that instead of the work being sent to a few by cartlouds, that it be more equally distributed, and all given cut to females be made by hand. Richmond, July 26. Justice.
The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. August 1, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
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