The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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A Candid Witness.

--A correspondent of the Milwaukie News, writing from Arkansas, gives some very strong testimony as to the influence and results of Yankee meddling and effects on the condition and prospects of the negro. Writing from Helena, Ark., he says:

‘ With no one to care for them, without food, clothes, or medicines, they sicken and die here by the hundreds — freed at last. Back of Gen. Washburn's headquarters, but a short distance, is a peach orchard, the little groves in rows so close that one can hardly step between them. Here, about two feet under ground, are over a thousand dead negroes, and day after day others who have starved to death are being added to the nameless list. And there are a dozen negro graveyards in Helena, each being rapidly filled with negroes, who were once happy and contented, in health and cared for, of use to themselves and the world.

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