Excerpt from The Question Before Congress: A Consideration of the Debates and Final Action by Congress Upon Various Phases of the Race Question in the United States
It is difficult for one to write an unbiased history of the events in which he himself took part. And the cold, unvarnished truth, whether told by the historian or otherwise, is seldom popular. Most popular histories, therefore, are written, not to record the truth as it is found, but rather to boost or to disparage the memory of some party or cause. Being desirous of learning the truth concerning the events of which this volume treats, and ending that the historians differed widely among themselves in many particular cases, the author was led to examine the original records of Congress page by page. A few of the notes taken in connection with this reading have been put in the shape of the following pages, and offered as a contribution to the literature on this particular subject to any who may be interested in knowing the whole truth as we found it. "Nothing to extenuate, and set down naught in malice."
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