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communities, how can the United States abate one iota from its solemn pledge. To do so would be faith worse than Punie. 
Notwithstanding emancipation has been accomplished with marked success, and the freedmen by their good qualities, have happily disappointed their former masters, yet go where you may, you see no signs, you hear no words of returning and increasing loyalty. No union is cherished; nothing national is cultivated. The press is bitter; the language of people, in cars, at hotels, is painful to loyal ears. While the nation is seeking to make good its solemn pledge to the Freedman, has not the point been reached, in the solution of the problem before us, when, with perfect safety, the councils of the nation may, by wise and temperate legislation, seek to heal these wounded spirits, that these States may not prove a barren conquest to the Union?

I have the honor to be,
Your Obt Sevt
C. W. Buckley
Inspector