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The following editorial approved the next morning after the [[strikethrough]] troops were [[/strikethrough]] withdrawn from Columbus.

Columbus:
Thursday Morning Jan. 25.
Freedmen's Bureau
It is to be hoped that this heavy, useless and irritating humbug will speedily follow the garrisons now being withdrawn from the Southern States. Intelligent observation North and South, has pronounced it a failure, and its further continuance or enlargement will add greatly to the national burden of taxation, and, in similar ratio, retard the process of reconstruction and the re-union of good feeling. It is the legitimate offspring of that fanatical spirit which has been the author of all our woes, and has most generally, been conducted in a manner designed and calculated to add to the active capital of the radical faction that now disturbs and agitates the country. There was never a time that the freedman needed the interference of such a system to protect him from those who had been, and are still, his best friends; and now that the Legislatures of the various States have given him a status in the courts of the country, and thrown around him for his benefit and protection, a special code of laws, there is no reasonable plea which can be raised in behalf of this excrescence on the body politic. If it were even legally called into existence, Congress has hitherto failed to provide the ways and means for its operation, and now is the proper time to let it pass away with the passions, the prejudices, and the unjust and harshly severe punitory measures which were engendered by the war. It has been claimed for it by its friends, that it first disseminated to the black race a true idea of their changed condition; that it has provided for their wants and necessities; protected them from violence and outrage; established schools and hospitals for their education and relief, and secured to them compensating wages for their labor. Admitting, for the sake of argument, that all these claims are true and justly founded, they cannot illumine the dark side of the picture, which is seen only at the South, and constitutes no part of the highly wrought reports of abolition generals, psalm-singing scoundrels, or enthusiastic New England school marms.
With honorable exceptions, here and there, almost invariably in the cases of officers of the army who filled these positions, the Superintendents of the Bureau have been as grossly ignorant of negro character, as they were thoroughly unacquainted with the proprieties of life, and totally devoid of a manly and generous sentiment. They have, in violation of the laws of the States, screened the negro from investigation and punishment for crimes and outrages and they have made in some instances, the negro [?] violent member of the community; and generally a disappointed and dejected being at the failure of the bright dreams he hoped to realize by the aid of the Superintendent and his Bureau. Few hospital have been