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and writer, and am under no necessity of embarking in this work.  But so impressed am I with its magnitude and importance that I am willing to give to it a few years of my life.  I can do it for the Societies, and should call in their aid any way and by all means, but I feel that my efficiency with all classes should be greatly increased by an appointment of the Government.

My work would not be of a character to interfere with sectional agencies.  It would consist in calling out educational talent to apply to the enterprises in extensive visits to Southern cities and communities to set things in the right direction, in urging the subject through the press with which I have been some years editorially connected, and in doing all this, not in antagonism to any one now in your service at the