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are the chief support of the Association, in the mission labor indicated.

2nd  General Griffin has upon his Bureau Staff holding, until a late date, the important position of Supdt. of Schools, and now retained on duty as "Inspector", a person - unfavorably unknown for a long time to the Association, for his personal and official hostility to the Society and its work, whose intents have been, and are, employed to disparage and work injury to the Association continually, - by extensive publication of letters in the leading Journals, in which the Society is charged as a Sectarian Institution, the motives of its officials impugned, and the character of its agents assailed. Further, by interference in the field with the teacher sent, and the placing in their way, every obstacle and impediment to a successful prosecution of the work, tending to defeat the expectation of the friends of the cause of education