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Do they realize that it is the supineness and imbecility, or worse, with which the Freedmen’s Bureau has been conducted at this point, that is the cause of danger, and, it may be, of much bloodshed?
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Sumner criticizes the inefficacy of the Freedmen’s Bureau, linking it to the risk of bloodshed.
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