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Publishers' Card.
In presenting this work, the publishers deem it proper to congratulate themselves and the public on having secured as the biographer of
Captain John Brown, a gentleman so well qualified, both by personal knowledge and literary ability, for the task, and whose previous life has been so identified in feeling and character with the career of the sainted hero, as to enable him to do that justice to his motives and acts which a less friendly pen would fail to render.
They would also call the attention of the public to the fact that a large percentage on each copy sold is secured by contract to the family of
Captain John Brown, and every purchaser thereby becomes a contributor to a charitable object, which appeals to all freemen with a force that is irresistible.
The publishers would remind the public, and especially the press, that the work is copyrighted, and any reprinting of the
Autobiography, or the chapter entitled “The Father of the man,” will be prosecuted as an infringement, as it is the desire of the friends who contribute
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it that it should appear exclusively in this volume, for the benefit of the family.
The work is published with the sanction and approval of the family of
Captain Brown, as may be seen by the following letters:
Dear Friends: I am satisfied that
Mr. Redpath is the man to write the life of my beloved husband, as he was personally acquainted with him, and I think will do him justice. ... I think that the portrait is a very good one.
Dear Sirs: I was somewhat acquainted with
James Redpath in
Kansas.
I am also familiar with his writings, and I consider him an able biographer, and
the man above all others to write the life of my beloved father.
I believe him to be a man of undoubted veracity, and fully believe he will do justice to the work he has undertaken.
