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Title: A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with 'Statements' of Outrages upon Freedmen in Georgia

Author: Hamilton Wilcox Pierson

Release Date: September 9, 2009 [EBook #29942]

Language: English

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A LETTER
TO
HON. CHARLES SUMNER,
WITH "STATEMENTS" OF
Outrages Upon Freedmen in Georgia,
AND AN ACCOUNT OF MY
EXPULSION FROM ANDERSONVILLE, GA.,
BY THE
KU-KLUX KLAN.

BY REV. H. W. PIERSON, D.D.,

FORMERLY PRESIDENT OF CUMBERLAND COLLEGE, KENTUCKY;
AUTHOR OF JEFFERSON AT MONTICELLO, OR THE PRIVATE
LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON; CORRESPONDING
MEMBER N. Y. HISTORICAL SOCIETY, ETC.

COMPLIMENTS OF THE AUTHOR.

WASHINGTON:
CHRONICLE PRINT., 511 NINTH STREET.
1870.

[Copy.]

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 the
propriety of repeating your paper read before the Historical Society at
a recent meeting, on the Private Life of Thomas Jefferson, and making
public a larger portion of your ample materials, in the form of public
lectures. The unanimous expression of approbation on the part of the
Society, which your paper elicited, is an earnest of the satisfaction
with which your consent to lecture will be received by the public at
large.

We have the honor to be, very respectfully, yours,

GEORGE BANCROFT,
HAMILTON FISH,
WM. M. EVARTS,
FREDERIC DE PEYSTER,
BENJ. H. FIELD,
GEORGE FOLSOM,
L. BRADISH,
ISAAC FERRIS,
GORHAM D. ABBOT,
SAMUEL OSGOOD,
GEORGE POTTS,
HENRY W. BELLOWS,
JOSEPH G. COGSWELL,
HORACE WEBSTER,
And many others.

LAWLESSNESS IN GEORGIA.