Excerpt from An Appeal to the Record The evidence of this conspiracy is contained in the prelimi nary statements of the first book which resulted, The Remints cenccs of Old John Brown, by G. W. Brown, in the writings of Thayer, Robinson, and Brown, and the subsequent admis sions of Brown. These preliminary statements are made up of letters which passed between Robinson and Brown. Rob inson wrote an open letter to Brown and published it in the Lawrence Journal; it was dated September 22, 1879, and recites that the writer had heard the praises for Lane. He pretends great solicitude for the places Lane and John Brown should be accorded by history-writers, and requests G. W. Brown to take up his pen and settle the matter. No reference is made to any private arrangement entered into while Brown was at Lawrence; and he expresses the proper amount of sur prise that the letter was written. He' replied October 10, and agreed to write a series of facts, as seen from my own stand point. This forecast of their nature was strictly maintained; very little regard was shown for facts that actually occurred. Robinson wrote a book, and dedicated it to Eli Thayer Thayer wrote a book, and dedicated it to Charles Robinson. They re garded it as unnecessary to dedicate any books to Brown; his remuneration must have been of a different nature, and we advise the reader to study what the Territorial press insists is his strongest characteristic before deciding the quality of it. 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.