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OFFICE SUB-ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER
Bureau Refugees. Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Savannah GA., 1865.
blessings, but that if they insisted upon loafing about cities and towns, living lazy useless lives, stealing and killing animals to get food, then they probably would become more miserable and unhappy than they had ever been as slaves. The above is what I have always said on these subjects as can be proven by hundreds of intelligent white and black people.

No honest man who has at any time heard me speak to either race will assert that I used language that could be tortured into conveying the impression given by the Tribune. How much is it to be regretted that in the pursuance of such vast interests, such solemn responsibilities involving the future welfare, happiness and destiny of Millions of people white and black, a paper like the Tribune with its wide circulation and powerful influence, claiming to be pre-eminently