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them into all portions of the state and bring them into direct and constant communication with the freedmen. 

I believe none of us have wished to engraft the Freedmens Bureau as a permanent institution upon our Government. This being the case, its substantial removal can as easily be effected now as any subsequent time. The educational relief is doubly limited, first by the small balance of funds devoted to this object, and secondly by the prompt adoption of school systems by the several states following a loyal reconstruction. A little aid such as the General Government is now affording in conjunction with the contributions of benevolent societies and the freedmen themselves, will be enough to keep alive the school interest till the state-system shall actually replace our work as has been done already partially in Tennessee. The   

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