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can communicate with it every day, and the colony be removed there.  As long as the Bureau has an existence it ought to maintain control over those who will appropriately seek a refuge or asylum there.  The time will come, when every town will have its asylum and House of Industry.  When public men will be less ambitious, and look more to those great agencies of humanity, which at last society must depend on.  Then charity will become a system, and do good.

I could offer other reasons, but those to you will be sufficient to direct your attention to the subject.

I am with great respect,
Your Obt. Servt.
Benj. F. Porter