Excerpt from Memorial of the New England Emigrant Aid Company: Praying Indemnification for the Destruction of Property, at Lawrence, Kansas May 21, 1856 Of the company's agents, as evidence of the estimation in which they were held, and the faithfulness with which they discharged their onerous duties, it is sufficient to state that one of the four was elected the chief executive of the State of Kansas, that a second became and still is, one of its United States senators, and a third is its pres1 ent representative in Congress. 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.