RATHER THAN DISHONOR
AND DENIAL OF THEIR BIRTHRIGHTS,
THIS BOOK
IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.
NOTE.
The author presents for review neither style nor language: he offers simply the story of the wrong and the heroism, the cause and effect, as it rises in his mind.
Neither does he, at this late date, seek to rekindle the smouldering embers of hate and conflict, nor, Antony-like, attack persons under the recital of the wrongs. Vengeance does not belong to the human race. There are times in the history of men when human invectives are without force. “There are deeds of which men are no judges, and which mount, without appeal, direct to the tribunal of God.”