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as such, the particular branch of the Bureau over which you preside, undertakes to teach them. If they were white children and you were their Guardian, would you not feel bound to give them religious instruction, & see that they went to Church? Well then, these Freedmen minors ought to have religious instruction & ought to go to Church. From the peculiar circumstances which surround them, they can not mingle indiscriminately with the Congregations of the Churches, but are required by these circumstances, to set apart to themselves. But there are no places provided for them in these Churches where they can set apart by themselves, therefore, it seems to me, that as their Guardian, you ought either to furnish places for them in such Churches as are willing they should have them, or build seperate houses for them to worship in. In deciding between these