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But those things must be established by the people themselves in the proper legal manner.

Unless they are so established, military rule and the supervision of the rights of the freedmen must continue, if the South is to be of any advantage to the country.

Peace and security for person and property are essential to the development of the resources of the country and the improvement of the people. If the Civil Law will not provide for this, the Military Law must.

At present I see no reason why the reconstruction measures which Congress has adopted should not accompish the result anticipated from them.

With this belief I cannot see the necessity for continuing the Freedmens Bureau beyond the time now limited by law. 

Should the people of this State however defeat the measures for restoring it to its proper relation to the General Government, I think it would be absolutely necessary that the Bureau should be continued and that its authority be extended to enable its officers to hold courts for the settlement of all controversies arising from breaches of contracts to which freedmen are parties.

Lieut F.W. Liedtke, Asst Sub Assistant Commisioner reports: "I have been on duty in the Bureau in charge of Three Parishes for two years,