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freedmen. I ask as one who intends to make the establishment of right principles and ideas in the South the work of his life, how it is possible for men with humanity and moral sense to consent to the abatement by one jot or tittle of the influence and power now most ably, but to a limited extent, exerted in behalf of the degraded negroes of the South. Not one third of the colored children in my sub district are members of school or have the chance to be:- does not this proportion prevail throughout the south; and can we do any less than we are now doing. We need all the men we have, rather better men; and the efficiency of Bureau agents is not half what it would be were they not caused to suffer personally by extra outlay, with no reimbursement from the Govt. the more as they the better do their duty.

I respectfully invite your attention to this point as being the weakest, and most unjust and unwise in the whole policy of this Bureau so far as I know.

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