Excerpt from Memoir of Rev. Samuel B. McPheeters, D. D In both points of the strategy - the investing the innocent with the aspect of the guilty in the eyes of rational men, and with the covering of the savage beasts in the eyes of the irrational dogs, he seldom fails to find imitators in every excitement of partisan fury; and it is only what is due to the truth of history in calmer times that the persecutors and the persecuted be set in their real light, at least before the rational world. 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 technology 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.