Produced by Bryan Ness, Stephanie Eason, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) 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. WASHINGTON, D. C., _March 15, 1870_.