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can certainly verify it.  The process is entirely different from any hitherto practiced - utterly so [[strikethrough]] from [[/strikethrough]] in principle from orthography.  I believe it is a new step in the progress of our race on earth, and that the method, sheerly by its overwhelming utility, will eventually force itself into universal use.  By it, a word heard or thought of is instantly analyzed into its elements; and as each element has a representative letter exclusively it own, and are Dagurro Typed, and not spelled.

Now, Sir, what I desire is the auspice of your bureau under which to establish a School in Washington or elsewhere for the qualifying of teachers of this method to freedmen and indeed to all for whom it will be useful.  Besides this teaching a part of the day I want to prepare books suited to the condition of the freedmen to be printed in the Phonetic character for their use.  I ask only that my expenses be paid while I prove to you what I here propose.

Should any of the States prescribe as a prerequisite qualification for suffrage, the