The authors have had no inclination to color the story with either praise or blame, but rather to let the records speak for themselves. Such coloring is the material in which novelists largely deal and the writers of this history have had no desire to rival them in their own field. Such writing is very easy as compared with the work of collating the facts from a large mass of public and private documents. A single elusive fact will often lead a trained investigator a merry chase for days at a time through the dusty pages of musty records.

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