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34 I fully concur with my colleague. Mrs. Griffing is both worthy and capable, and I trust her services will be secured.

If I had this appointment to make, I would make Mrs. Griffing Commissioner.

I know Mrs. Griffing to be capable and humane, and very devoted to the colored race. I hope that her services may be secured.

2em

I most cheerfully join in this recommendation.

I fully concur in the above, and hope that Mrs. Griffing will receive a conspicuous place in the Freedman’s Bureau. She is the best qualified of any person within my knowledge; her whole heart is in the work.

I most fully concur

I fully concur in all that is said within in behalf of Mrs. Griffing, and earnestly commend her to the favor sought.

July 9, 1869.

Mrs. Griffing has for several years devoted herself with great industry, intelligence, and success to the freed people in the District of Columbia, and in this service she has accomplished more good than any other one individual within my acquaintance. When the War Department was in my charge, she rendered very efficient aid of a humane character to re lieve the wants and sufferings of destitute freed people, and was untiring in her benevolent exertions. Property for distribution was often placed in her hands, or under her directions, and she was uniformly trustworthy and skillful in its management and administration. In my judgment, she is entitled to the most full confidence and trust.

2em

Nov. 12, 1869.

On my return from Washington I found your kind letter of the 28th, ult. I regret much that I did not meet with you at Washington. I know your merits. I know that no person in America has done so much for the cause of humanity for the last four years as you have. Your disinterested labors have saved hundreds of poor human beings not only the greatest destitution and misery, but from actual starvation and death. I also know that in doing this you have not only devoted your whole time, but all the property you have. And I know, too, that your labors are just as necessary now as they ever have been. Others know all this as well as I do. Secretary Stanton can vouch for it all, and I can not doubt that Congress will not only pay you for what you have done, but give you a position where this necessary work may be dore by you effectually. This is the very thing that ought to be done at once. Since the Bureau has been abolished it will be impossible to get along with the great influx of imbecility and destitution which gathers and