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might needlessly influence the public mind in the North against the South- assured him that there was no reason to doubt the ability of the U.S. Govt through its established agency, the Freedmen's Bureau, to regulate all these difficulties—and further, that such a statement, flamed abroad, would both exasperate sensitive parties in the North and tend to destroy confidence in the Bureau before it had fairly taken control of matters confided to it— In this view he differed from me, [[strikethrough]] assuring and [[/strikethrough]] adding that he had nothing to do with consequences but that the information ought & should be made as public as possible and that it was really the only method of reaching the case
Rev Dr ———— president of Colored Theological Seminary, D.C. advocated sending the Committee with the statement of grievances to the