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And permit me to add, General, that I do not recommend this appointment because I wish & and my health requires that I be relieved, but because I believe that the Bureau will have no more faithful officer than Mr Bingham & he a citizen for 20 years, yet educated [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] in the true principal that labor once performed is equally valuable whether the laborer that performed it is white or black.

Very Respectfully, General, 
Your Ob't. Serv't.
F. Humphrey
Assist Supt.

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