With the heavy burdens of his department resting on his shoulders, he does not desire any additional labor; but he does not conceal his conviction that the care of the freedmen must for the present be associated with the care of the lands.
Sumner relays the Secretary of the Treasury's concerns about managing freedmen and land together.
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