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with the white citizens of the states, and that the Bureau is an immense expense to the General Government which should be abolished as soon as compatible with the public interest.
   Yet I feel that we are in honor bound to secure to the helpless people we have liberated a republican form of government, and that we betray our trust when we hand these freedmen over to their old masters to be persecuted, and forced to live and work according to their peculiarly southern ideas.  It seems to me that we are forgetting the helpless and poor in our desire to assist our subjugated enemies, who are pleading so earnestly that we show ourselves to be a great and magnammous nation.  We certainly commit a wrong, if, while restoring civil law in these communities, restoring wealth and property, and restoring the states to their old positions, and allowing them to be properly represented in our congress, we sacrifice the rights and new liberties