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ger, or in any after capacity, I could be sufficiently useful to the Bureau to justify it in with furnishing me transportation. I would gladly avail myself of the relief.

The leading idea that I am trying to enforce, in what I am writing, is that every consideration of principle & interest now invites the late Slave States to assimilate their institutions & ideas to those of the free States, the majority of the nation. That in short our future is extermination or assimilation. 
Respectfully
E.W. Pou

Maj Gen Wager Swayne

P.S. The enclosed communication has excited unusual interest. The last sentence is a question, on the solution of which nearly every leading citizen agrees with me