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though turgid with sectarianism, point strongly to the fact that education is the great objective aim of all, and with more enlightened ideas, petty dissensions must disappear-

Much less suffering this winter than on the two preceding ones was experienced although the weather was and continues to be severe - The people understanding that no assistance would be given by the Bureau, and that the poorhouse would be the only refuge in case of need, made the most desperate and successful efforts to escape what they would consider the greatest calamity. A judicious supply of clothing given at such times as would actually prevent suffering encouraged the people to labor more diligently to supply their families with the necessary food, fuel, and shelter- and I trust will make them more economical of the next summers earnings, and thereby better enable them to meet the demand of another winter -

Intemperance, immorality and crime, the hydra headed monster - naturally to be found in the wake of a people relieved from slavery, to whom education was denied by law, and the marriage relation

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