Bible." As federal and state authorities forbade shipping
arms to the region, rifles were packed in wooden crates
marked as "books." When some pro-slavery Democrats
intercepted a case and took the guns, Beecher began to
personally pass out rifles to abolitionist settlers who
were headed to Kansas..."
http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/beechers-bible-its-not-what-you-think/
