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approve of the employment of officers and soldiers in the Bureau, or upon any duty not strictly in accordance with the objects of a standing Army; but, as he says, innovations have taken place, and under present legislation, the Army is called on for assistance and use in civil departments, and though it is opposed to every principle of justice to the Army, yet it cannot be avoided, and has to be submitted to, at present.

I think however, as the Association at New York has been arranged with for teachers, you are not affected materially by the adverse decision; though I do believe the education of the freedmen, is a matter Government