New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-20
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
80 or,,.cnrr ,r, prA,INIsCENCES.

MRS. SWISSHELM'S "REMINISCENCES.
HALF A CENTURY. BY JANE Grey swisshhLA
l2:no. PIP 363. Chicago: j. u. S"isshc'"
Mrs. Swisshelm has lost none of that I1ar'iai
tonper. independence of thought. and f,ce OF
specch which made her for so many years
national celebrity. AS she records her memo,'oS
of stirring conflicts the old fires blaze or'sn"S
scor and hatred fame in the vigorous scn-
fences; even the ancient rrejudices hourisn !"
unimpaired vitality. Rarely is voiunie Va i0"
miscences composed with so much h'enS"S Vi
feeling as this earnest lady brings 10 io, "."'' !,
TONS Nobody can read the DOCK "n"oS'
periencinr something of the excitement OF oa""'
The abolitionsts of tw twenty-five ana 'hr'S !o"''
ooo can never forget the horrible wrongs against
,rhicb tbev handed themselves together, or INC
,rptol oufrapes of which they were made the
victims. God forbid that they should be aolo 10
write Of such things without getting angry. "heh
Mrs Svisshelm started The Pitisbmg Saturday
Tisitcr rs an antisavery paper, she not ony DrNeu
n nu,lic opin,on which held it hardly decent LOT
a woman TO conduct political Journal pu' sne
EXPOSED herself TO great personal danger one Vi
her first exploits was q fierce attack upon ouuso
Crier. under whose ruling in the United states
Cont DIR. Robert Mitchell of Indiana fehhsyi
vania. was convicted of the crime OF CIV
inc food and shelter TO runaway save
ond fined $1,000 besides the costs, winch
omounted 10 as much more. Threatened with
prosecution and imprisonment unless sne
opologized. Mrs SwIsshelm printed, under inc utie
of An Apology" still more vehement ana piaih'
snoken attack, and was then let alone. Two years
afterward Judge Grer was about to Try announcer
emit for harboring slave, and the defendant pro-
posed to call Mrs. Swisshelm as a witness On
hiring her by all MEANS" said his counsel No
matter what she knows or whether she Knows amy
thing bring her into court, and I'll win the case LOT
- afr Of than
tSt Cloud. Minnesota, whittier she removed some
time LATER the Office OF her paper was sackeu anu
her life WAS supposed to be i'll great perli rom
pro-slavery mob Out Of this affair grew 'ro"ole,
some libel suit and when she found that she coulo
NOT escape conviction she agreed to proposal ny
The other side that the prosecution shouio DC
abandoned on the publication OF an apoiosS V9
The Visiftr and pledge that no reference " 'ii0
,oclipg Of the Office should ever again appear IN
that paper. Mrs. Swisshem thereupOh re'nou W
nrivate life for week. and transferred the paper 10
,ho ofnce. bovs who printed one number containing
the stimulated apology. The publication was then
abandoned: and the next day Mrs. SWlssnehi
fonnded n new journal, and revived the war.
nrominent clergyman of ST. Cloud, driving WIN
his wife in sleigh, was hurled of bridge anu
both were killed. Il accompanied my sympathetio'
respectful obituary notice" says Mrs Swissheiih,
swith the statement that the costly cntter wreekeu
and the valuable horse instantly killed, were oo'h
,,,,robased with money obtained by the sale OF q
woman and her child who had been held as
.loves in Minnesota in defiance OF her law, ana nao
heen taken by this popular divine TO Tennessee
orction block Once Mrs. SwiSshem had the
distinction of being burned in eigy as the mother
of the Republican party" She saw Charles sumner
at a country town in Pennsylvania. soon after the
Brooks assault and relates this anecdote;
He was oppressed with anxiety about Burlngame,
who had gone 10 Canada to fight a auel, ana IhtIe
80 arca+ rejoicing when he suddenly appeared one
evening after the sun had hidden DENIM thc piho
trees. 49,, oo.oa IN oh other with
the abandon of boys. No duel had been lOugho,
since Brooks, the challenger had refused 10 pass
through PENNSYLVANIA to Ch1ton' the pi t ~, or
meeting. for fear of mob violence. Even the oieI
of safe conduct of troops by the governor, laii9 ~
to reassure him, and Burhngame had hutleu o "
set his friends mind at rest. After tne eeneiu
eio; n9 the two sat facing each other, when
Sumner leaned forward. placed a hahu Oh eaon u
Burlingame's shoulders. and sald ,..1 .,
Tell me Arson, you did not mean to shoot tha'
"' Bnrlinesme's head dropped an instant then rails
~" H. intended to take the best aim could" Here
he drew back his right arm ana TOOK ,ne P bis
breast wait for the word, and then-fre p
Sumner dropped back in his chair, let his hands
fall ON his knees and exclaimed, sorTow1uHy
IA Oh. Anson / did not believe it,"
Rnrlipgames eyes filed with tears, ana ne salo -
aCharies you lying beealng ana lnsens a,aT
o oma;n 10 hear YOU speak and intended then to
Xii him tell You, Charles, we have got TO mee,
those fellows with guns. some day, and the sooner
we begin the better"
Daring the war Mrs. Swisshelm volunteered as
nurse in the hospitals of Washington. and she
followed the army to the bloody field OF trederlcs
burg Nothing could be more distressing than mel
narrative of the dreadful scenes she witnessed
during these experiences but the hospital chap
ters nevertheless are in one respect the mos'
agreeable of the book since underneath the occa
sona ferocity of their personal invectiyes II Is easy
to recognize the tender and atiectonate hear9 VI
the daring reformer.