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How much of fruit will come from these efforts time only can demonstrate;, but it may not be deemed inappropriate to hazard the hope that the result may be commensurate to the importance of the great national and ethnological end in view.

In thus seeking to interest the white population of the State in the movement for the education of the freed people, and preparing them to take, the principal charge of this important work, I am simply acting in conformity to the spirit of the closing paragraph of Section 12, of "An act to continue in force and to amend an Act to establish a Bureau for the relief of Freedmen and Refugees and for other purposes."

Further, the very fact that the Act establishing the Bureau limits its existence to two years would seem to imply that the design of Congress is not only that the officers of the Bureau should