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cannot be put aside for the action of the State Authorities, since these adults are now in a position to act, and influence the national character, being citizens and possessed of every right connected therewith.

To provide then for this immediate and pressing want: to do so without the delay incident to the collection of private donations, even if the same were obtainable:  to have the work untrammelled by partisan or sectarian views, which are noticeable, to a greater or less degree in all aid or humanitarian societies:  to leave the subject under the exclusive direction, and management of the Bureau - its proper custodian and head: to make the system wholly a national measure, its fruits being purely of a national character:  to have the cost or expense fully covered beyond contingency, and not in a