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the freedpeople are taught their duties as citizens, the necessity of laboring and providing for themselves, and families, which now so very few understand, and will not until better informed, or forced to do so. 

The infirm and dependent of both cases, must suffer and starve, if the Bureau is discontinued, for if the civil authorities were dispersed to assist them they could not from extreme poverty, for all are alike poor. 

The animus against the freedpeople is stronger than it was one year ago, and it is with the greatest difficulty that the employers can be induced to pay them (the freedpeople) for their labors, much less to contribute to the relief of the poor and dependent. 

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Bvt. Major JW. De Forest, Asst. Sub Assistant Commissioner reports: It is my opinion that the Bureau will not be needed after the State is represented in Congress, providing a State government is organized under the Convention now elected. This opinion, it will be observed is drawn from observation of a Sub-District in which there are many white Union men, and where for a year past the civil authorities have been steadily called upon to arrange difficulties between whites and negroes to the civil laws. 

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