Excerpt from Message of Governor Luke P. Blackburn to the General Assembly of Kentucky: At the Regular Session, November 28, 1881 The assassin lives contemned, despised, and spurned; and yet his life is guarded by the soldiers of the Republic, and will be guarded and. 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.