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But allow me, sir, to express no belief in or care for a merely temporary Bureau to last a year or two longer. It might and would do some good: but, unless I am greatly mistaken, good sense, sound policy, the necessities of the case, call for a permanent organization to do a work that will last far into the future, and with relation to which any one year's work is almost inappreciable.

I think I am speaking the sentiments of those whose relations would not, personally, be materially disturbed by the non continuance of the Bureau in some form, when I say that we long for a fixed standpoint or platform as a means of directing our energies systematically and persistently in a proper direction; and of feeling sure of what has been done.

The South, so far as I know is unable to take up and carry on what the Bureau has begun, and, if it were, it is not to be trusted with it. 

In this Sub Dist. the work would fall flat

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