| Table of Contents |
| Lawlessness in Georgia. |
| Why I Was Ku Kluxed. |
| Appendix A. |
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New York, November, 1861
To the Rev. H. W. Pierson, D.D.,
President of Cumberland College, Kentucky:
Dear Sir: The undersigned beg leave respectfully to suggest to you thepropriety of repeating your paper read before the Historical Society ata recent meeting, on the Private Life of Thomas Jefferson, and makingpublic a larger portion of your ample materials, in the form of publiclectures. The unanimous expression of approbation on the part of theSociety, which your paper elicited, is an earnest of the satisfactionwith which your consent to lecture will be received by the public atlarge.
We have the honor to be, very respectfully, yours,
| GEORGE BANCROFT, | ISAAC FERRIS, | |
| HAMILTON FISH, | GORHAM D. ABBOT, | |
| WM. M. EVARTS, | SAMUEL OSGOOD, | |
| FREDERIC DE PEYSTER, | GEORGE POTTS, | |
| BENJ. H. FIELD, | HENRY W. BELLOWS, | |
| GEORGE FOLSOM, | JOSEPH G. COGSWELL, | |
| L. BRADISH, | HORACE WEBSTER, | |
| And many others. |
Washington, D. C., March 15, 1870.
My Dear Sir: It would not become me to express an opinion upon any ofthe legal questions involved in the Georgia bill now before the Senate,but I respectfully call your attention to the following "statements" offacts. I certainly am not surprised that Honorable gentlemen whom Igreatly esteem, should express their belief that the outrages committedupon the Freedmen and Union men in Georgia have been greatly exaggeratedin the statements that have been presented to Congress and the country.I know that to persons and communities not intimately acquainted withthe state of society, and the civilization developed by the institutionof slavery, they seem absolutely incredible. Allow me to say, from mypersonal knowledge, and profoundly conscious of my responsibility to Godand to history, that the statements that have been given to the publicin regard to outrages in Georgia come far short of the real facts in thecase. Permit me to add that I went to Andersonville, Ga., to labor as apastor and teacher of t