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determine. unless it be to sympathize with those who express hatred for and a determination to still "oppress the poor" a thing I am sorry to say many of the military are too much inclined to do for either the good of the former slave or master or the efficiency of the "bureau".  As long as officers can be found who will join sympathy with these ex-slaveholding rebels and vie with them in curses of the negro, they think themselves licensed by this sympathy to resist all means and measures looking to the recognition of any right of the colored man which the white man is bound to respect.  When this amounts to positive interference with and would be assumption of the authority belonging alone to the "bureau" some means should be devised to protect the "bureau" from the misrepresentations with which these efforts may be coupled.  Making the declared "failure of the bureau" the ground of argument the report in question.  I am informed proceeds to argue the importance of