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to the manifest disparage [[?]] the form.
If the manifestation now pending, is I understand should result in the removal of agent [[Look?]], it will be a matter of the utmost importance that his successor should embody the best administrative qualities, if we are to push these Indians forward. It is not enough to keep Indians from hostilities; we must lift them out of the [[slough?]] of vagabondage and awaken in them fresh aspirations for lives of usefulness to themselves and to others. The theory, which  which unfortunately has obtained in many instances, that the

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