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condition - are too deep to be reached by any temporary change in the tide of affairs, and will only be reached and modified by a permanent establishment and clear definition of their new relations.

While few men are unemployed, the vast majority of freedmen are unsettled, and the latter fact is what tells upon their condition; all the Bureau can do towards modifying this unhappy fact is to aid in the distribution of the people.

I am General
With great respect
Your Obdt Sevt
S C Armstrong
Agt 5th Sub Dist Va.

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