Excerpt from The Life of Joshua R. Giddings Giddings during the greater part of his public service, and have long been familiar with his anti-slavery labors; my relations to his family gave me free access to his private correspondence and other papers of interest and value in the preparation of such a work; and it was the wish of his surviving relatives and friends that I should undertake it. While I have written in sympathy with my subject, I trust it will be found that I have not slighted the duty of discrimina tion, or seriously failed in the endeavor to deal fairly and impartially with the famous men and stirring events of a grand epoch. 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.