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To you I need hardly add that if I were the National Legislature, I would by all legal means protect and cherish the hapless beings whose sudden freedom appears to be little more than liberty to perish as leisure, or be again enslaved under the guise of an enforced vagrancy Faithfully Yours Richard Busteed Major General Wager Swayne ~ ~ ~