Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-10-10

The publication of tho book with
tho above title is certainly timely
one. 1t makes its appearance just at
the moment when it can serve as a
powerful aud effective campaign docu-
mcnt in the interests Of the National
Republican party. The testimony
which it bears is not to DO gainsaycl !;
Tor its every page is stamped with that
Christian earncstncss and sincerity
which prompted its author in giving
his evidence, to " tell the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the
trutq.' How appalling that truth is,
and how clearly it indicates to every
voter the course to be pursued by him
in the pending Presidential canvass,
in order to prevent the recurrence Of
such atrocities as are herein depicted,
will be readily appreciated by al who
pcruse the volume. The story Of the
book is briefly as follows:
The author, an old anti-slavery man,
whose faith had been tested and whose
zeal had been increased BY an active
participation in all the trials and dan
gers Of the Kansas struggle, felt i'm
PEELED BY duty. At the close Of the re-
bellion, to remove to Georgia and labor
for the spiritual and material well-be-
ing Of the freedmen. Having this end
in view, he purchased a plantation
which he cultivated by the aid Of hired
negro help, and with the intention Of
ultimately dividing it up and selling it
in small portions to the laborers, for
whose mental improvement he cared by
establishing, first, a Sunday school,
and afterwards weekday school. In
all Of these efforts he was zealously
seconded by = few friends, among
whom we're his wife, sister and mother,
the last mentioned having considerably
ovcrpassed the three score years and
ten allotted to man by the Psalmist.
How this enterprise sped: amid sick
ness and straitened finances, aud in aid,
too, Of objects rendered iutractablo by
previous servitudt, is fully set forth in
these interesting pages; how, at first,
it experienced sullen tolerance at the
hands Of the projectors rebel peighbors;
how it had to encounter their fierce op-
position, after Andrew Johnson's at
tempted reconstruction policy had re-
vived their hopes and how that oppo-
sit;on r;pened at length into acts Of
personal violence, and the most shame
full exhibitions Of Ku-Klux barbarism
and atrocity. 1t is not to be wondered
at that so trying an ordeal. coupled with
a release from its perils through the
action Of Republican Congress and
the energetic measures Of the present
administration, should have rendered
the writer of this book an earnest Grant
man, not to be shaken by any allegations
Of military despotism, or. by any sug-
gestions Of nepotism and gift-taking.-
In letter recently written to one Of
his friends, he thus gives expression to
his feelings and purposes: You re-
member my conversation with Grant in
1869, aud that he then said to me, You
shall be protected Nobly has he kept
that promise, when We consider tho ab-
sence Of power on bis part; but when
the Ku-Klux bill was passed and he
commenced enforcing it, a gladstone
shout Of deliverance arose from every
negro cabin and every Union mans
house. Oh! you cannot imagine tho
change that was then wrought. I put
up my rife in its sheath, laid away my
revolver, and for the first time, almost,
walked abroad on my farm, fearless Of
rebel bullets. 'rejoiced with joy I'M
speakable and full Of glory;' and if
General Grant had put into Office all his
sons and his sons cons unto the one
hundredth remove, aud cousins innu-
merable, and had accepted house ia
every city in the country, I should 60
tor him, on account Of his enforcem ent
of that BILL"
The book, handsome volume of 562
pages, illustrated by nine engravings Of
scenes described in the text, can be pro-
cured from the booksellers at tho retail
price Of 81.