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touching which I had intended conferences with Judiciary Committee, and which was afterwards shown to me fully prepared, was for some reason, unknown to me, not reported to the Convention.

I did not cease to explain to those members who came in my way, that all the freedmen now enjoy, ie... the same rights of person and property as others now voting inhabitants, and that secured by irreversible guaranty of organic law, could alone preserve the State from internal dissention and deterioration, and induce its restoration to the powers of other States. On the one hand I hope and believe this will be made good. On the other I also hope and believe, that before the next Session of Congress this will have been done. It is secured for the present. Public opinion here, or in other words, a sense of the necessity of the situation, progresses by radiation, and I think, in two months, this process will have brought the sense of the State up to making permanent that which the members felt this responsibility at home, only permitted them to temporarily provide, until the assertion that such an enactment, made permanent, was in dispensable, was more plain than I was able to make it.

In this connection I may add that many of the members expressed to the Governor a desire that you should visit the State. The Governor desires me to say to you that this feeling was general among them, and to express his own hope, in which I join heartily, and which he will doubtless repeat at in form, than you may find it convenient to do so at an early day.
Governor Parsons proposes to go to Washington within a few days, to present in person the condition of things here; to reconcile some differences between the military and civil authority, and to know the full measure of help which the Government will afford, and in what condition, as the season

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advances for the care of those whites and blacks who are not self-supporting. Beside the issue of rations, somebody must at least sent places to which freedmen who are not self-supporting, can be transformed.
The profit of slavery here lay (and this people are not ashamed to confess it.) in the increase only. Partly for this reason, and partly because a large number of males went off with our forces, on every hand are members of families whose labor will not support them. 
The crop generally in this State is a failure - the planter impoverished by emancipation, either cannot or will not find them, and they are every was exposed.
Those are some qualifying instances of self-sacrifice, but these are few and do not meet the case. Hence I am of opinion, that for teh coming year, there must be and ought to be immediately, at least one farm in each county to be used as a place of transit for those out of work, and shelter for those not self-supporting. Seeing no prospect of conficated lands, I have been laboring to get the County Commifsiress to secure such a farm. It is up-hill business but I shall persevere.
Since I have commenced uniting, The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee called to say that the reason the ordinance which provided for the care of infirm freedmen was not reported, was that, though they desired to do so, they yet concluded that the terrible  drought, added to the calamities of war, made it simply impossible for the people to raise any money. 
Governor Parsons urges me to go to Washington with him, and expressed to me his intention to unite to you, on the subject. I am sorry he did so, and I have simply to say that I do not see a necessity sufficient to require such an interruption of my business, which is full of interest, and only just developing; unless you may think it is due to him on account of the manner in which he has always seconded the operations of the Bureau. In any event, I hope you may find it convenient.