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is for aught we can see, a simple impossibility.

The case of the National Freedmen is certainly the National duty- not the duty of the philanthropic alone. Every dollar that a faithful and continuous representation of the facts will bring from the pocktets of the benevolent, shall be secured: but this aggregate will not meet the emergency. The four millions or more now in the U.S. Treasury was chiefly raised in the Miss. Valley, and was deducted from the proceeds of the labors of the Freed People themselves, and solemnly promised them for their relief and education. Certainly, I think, neither the President nor the Secretary of the Treasury can be unwilling to turn over this money of the Bureau. And then, if the Secretary of War thinks he cannot give the rations longer, will not the Bureau by them and issue to the teachers? 
Or, if this does not seem best, will not the Honorable Secretary of War be kind enough to reconsider his decision, and consent to re-issue the rations through the Bureau.