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not and the most that can be expected of the Bureau now is that it will stay the progress of ruin as long as possible until Congress can respond to and which I have no doubt will make the Bureau an especial object if its posturing and protective care and support, and place it above the caprice and folly of the President.
  
This is my opinion and formed or expressed by every thing we heard or done by you or the Department. 

With these convictions you will see that I will have to keep in abeyance for a time my labors for the black man south except so far as they are repressable, by peaceable yet determined remonstrance, and warning

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