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Historian Mark Summers concludes that Pike stressed the sensational, but " however maliciously and mendaciously he shaded his evidence, his accounts squared with those of his colleagues Charles Nordhoff of the New York Herald and H. P.

Redfield of the Cincinnati Commercial.

James Freeman Clarke, a leading Boston abolitionist, visited South Carolina and reported back to tell his Boston congregation that the facts presented by Pike, " were confirmed by every man whom I saw.