They were so full of falsehoods and misstatements as to astonish me.

Not long after, a literary friend wrote to me, 'Will you, can you, reconcile it to your conscience to sit still and allow that mistress so to slander that wife,--you, perhaps, the only one knowing the real facts, and able to set them forth ?' Upon this, I immediately began collecting and reading the various articles and the book, and perceived that the public of this generation were in a way of having false history created, uncontradicted, under their own eyes.
I claim for my countrymen and women, our right to true history.

For years, the popular literature has held up publicly before our eyes the facts as to this man and this woman, and called on us to praise or condemn.

Let us have truth when we are called on to judge.

It is our right.
There is no conceivable obligation on a human being greater than that of absolute justice.