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We are sincerely glad that this is the truth. The
national disgrace of an abandonment of the freedmen in their
present condition to those who lately held them a slaves
would be overwhelming. They are our wards and we have no
moral right to relinquish their hands until we leave them as
fully secure in every civil right as every
other citizen. Upon this point there is no difference of
opinion among Union men. It is the "Democracy" only which
would abandon them. The President, in his conversation with
Governor Cox, of Ohio, speaks of his resolution to see
justice done with a distinctness which we should been been
glad to find in his Message. The case is unprecedented, and
we must treat it accordingly.
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The
following excerpt is from an editorial in Harpers
Weekly. In it the editor notes that plans to disband the
Freedmen's Bureau would be morally reprehensible.