Life of Benjamin F Butler
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55, which will explain itself, and have raised nearly the amount of the tax therein set forth. But for what purpose ? Not a dollar has gone in any way to the use of the United States. I am now employing one thousand poor laborers, as matter of char ity, upon the streets and wharves of the city, from this fund. I am distributing food to preserve from starvation nine thousand seven hundred and seven families, containing thirty-two thou sand four hundred souls, daily; and this at an expense of sev...enty thousand dollars per month. I am sustaining, at an expense of two thousand dollars per month, five asylums for widows and orphans. I am aiding the charity hospital to the extent of five thousand dollars per month.
" Before their Excellencies, the French and Prussian minis ters, complain of my exactions upon foreigners at New Orleans, I desire that they should look at the documents, and consider for a moment the facts and figures set forth in this report. They will find that out of ten thousand four hundred and ninety families who have been fed from the fund, with the raising of which they find fault, less than one-tenth are Americans ; nine thousand four hundred and eighty are foreigners.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
55, which will explain itself, and have raised nearly the amount of the tax therein set forth. But for what purpose ? Not a dollar has gone in any way to the use of the United States. I am now employing one thousand poor laborers, as matter of char ity, upon the streets and wharves of the city, from this fund. I am distributing food to preserve from starvation nine thousand seven hundred and seven families, containing thirty-two thou sand four hundred souls, daily; and this at an expense of sev...enty thousand dollars per month. I am sustaining, at an expense of two thousand dollars per month, five asylums for widows and orphans. I am aiding the charity hospital to the extent of five thousand dollars per month.
" Before their Excellencies, the French and Prussian minis ters, complain of my exactions upon foreigners at New Orleans, I desire that they should look at the documents, and consider for a moment the facts and figures set forth in this report. They will find that out of ten thousand four hundred and ninety families who have been fed from the fund, with the raising of which they find fault, less than one-tenth are Americans ; nine thousand four hundred and eighty are foreigners.
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