Excerpt from A Copy of a Letter, Written to the President of the United States, on Slave Emancipation Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reigns. SO fool ish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. - Psa. Lxxiii. 21, 22. 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.