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asked for them. Their husband have Homes in VA, but are unable to bear the cost of their travel to them; while, if with them there, they become useful to self-supporting Citizens. When Brevet Col. Cadle endorsed his report upon the inclosed, I was, & had been for several months previous, absent from my Town, & he c'd [[could]] not have known anything of the private bounty I was & had been extending to these my former slaves and most excellent servants, thence, doubtless, his phrase in that Report, "not likely to become a burden upon the Gov't" I shall be pleased to hear from you, and also to have your several eloquent speeches in the Senate & elsewhere upon the "Reconstruction Question". Very respectfully Yr. Ob't Serv't Jno. S. Corbin