Kansas in Eighteen Fifty-Eight: Being Chiefly a History of the Recent Troubles in the Territory (Classic Reprint) by William P Tomlinson (Paperback / softback, 2015)
Excerpt from Kansas in Eighteen Fifty-Eight: Being Chiefly a History of the Recent Troubles in the Territory The pages which follow are simply a record of events occurring in the experience of one who has been the eye and ear witness of the greater part of the incidents narrated in this book. My object in writing it was two-fold. I felt it a duty I owed the struggling freemen of Kansas, to disabuse as much as possible the public mind of its many erroneous impressions regarding the recent difficulties in Kansas, commonly kwn as the Fort Scott Difficulties; and I also wished to preserve the prominent events relating thereto, in the hope that they might be of some assistance to the future historian of Kansas, in giving a permanence to its history and a deathless fame to the ble champions of freedom on its soil. I have therefore been studiously careful that thing should appear unsupported by truth, and have even softened the tone of many passages for fear their honest warmth of expression would be attributed to the bias of partisan feeling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.