NOTE BY THE AUTHOR.
The foregoing narrative, is principally taken from life.
Many of the incidents having fallen under the notice of the
author, to whom several of the leading characters were personally
known, and are still living. The incidents, however,
(many of them) are shifted from the actual places of
occurrence. But the Tennessean being written before the
author became acquainted with the Atlantic towns, proves
that the selection of places has been very injudicious; particularly
that of Boston. It is therefore nothing but an act
of justice to that city, to declare that the incidents represented
to have taken place there, happened much nearer the author's
own door, and had it not been for deranging the unity
of the narrative, this part of it would have been altered before
the work went to press, as Boston is the last place, and
the Author would be the last person to ascribe (even in fiction)
incidents to that city so contrary to truth and justice.
