The opening of Dedication
TO COLONEL EDWIN A. SHERMAN.
Allow me to mention your name the first among the many to whom I dedicate this book.
I owe this to you as a token of gratitude for your help in my researches after the true murderers of our martyred President Abraham Lincoln.
I found you as wise and honorable in your counsels as our country found you brave on the battlefields of Liberty.
TO THE ORANGEMEN OF THE UNITED STATES, CANADA,
GREAT BRITAIN, AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA
AND NEW ZEALAND,[A]this book is also dedicated by the humblest of their brethren.
Orangemen! Read this book: you will not only understand Romanism as you never did, but you will find many new reasons to be, more than ever, vigilant, fearless and devoted, even to death, in the discharge of the sacred duties imposed upon you by your love for your country, your brethren and your God.