Excerpt from Some Facts About the Life and Public Services of Benjamin Helm Bristow, of Kentucky: Designed as a Reply to Inquiries Often Made Respecting the Leading Events of His Life Col. Bristow's father and grandfather were both anti slavery men in a slave-holding community: His father gave. Liberty to the slaves he had inherited from the relatives of his 'wife, and was noted for his efforts to ameliorate the condition of the colored people in his neighborhood. It is on record that, as a member of the Constitutional Convention of Ken tucky, he voted against the clause in that instrument declaring the right of property in slaves to be as sacred as that of any other property. The Hon. James Speed, of Louisville, Mr. Lincoln's attorney-general, himself an anti-slavery man as far back as 1849, wrote to a friend under date May, 9, 1876, as follows concerning the secretary. 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.