The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-11-18

1ntermarry with the whites, and they cannot
be denied either Of these. or any other equal
rights. by either state or Federal laws. II
they are sovereign citizens, It needs neither
argument nor the citation Of authorities to
show that they cannot be Disseminated
against In any way whatever, for sovereignty
is supreme and cannot be limited otherwise
than by voluntary agreement which may be
broken at will by the sovereign, and no act of
the law-making power can become law that
allows greater privileges to one sovereign
than to another. &
THAT the children Of that race of people are
excluded from the schools provided by the
puhlicsfor white children, and are prohibited
from intermarrying with the whites, or occu-s
plying the same seats ia theaters, or riding in
the same railroad coaches with the white
people, and in many other ways Disseminated
against by the law4aof the states, which are
recognized as valid by every department Of
the United States skS1ES that thesAfrican in
states or Of the United States; for, II they
were sovereign citizens, every discrimin ating
act OF the Legislature Of any state would be
Unconstitutional and void.
"But they are inhabitants Of the United
States and Of the state wherein they reside,
and as mere inhabitants they are entitled to
protection under the laws of the United
States and Of the state wherein they reside.
AS the native torn Of African descent owe no
allegiance to any other nation, Prince, or
potentate, and have always resided in the
United States 1t is difficult to define the ex-
act relation they bear to the United States
and the state wherein they reside He
further absurdly Declares: THAT the drafts
man Of this fourteenth amendment did not
intend to make the African inhabitants SOW
ereign citizens, for, as sovereign citizens, no
laws could be made prohibiting them from
intermawying with the white people, or
from attending the same public schools. And
the danger of daughters of the white people
being entrapped into marriage with the black
bucks, while attending school together, would
have defeated It's ratification. by the states
which probably presented itself to the drafts
ame " WIZ this T6ere ore the
colored race Of people born in the United
States cannot constitute any part OF the ma
tional family Of sovereign citizens He
fails to see that to ring In the dangers of
white daughters Of the South being en-
trapped into marrying black bucks" is not
only out Of place in thoughtful law vol
gent white people ofthe South. II such ut
| terances could possibly meet with applause
the result would no dohbt be mischief, and
even crime, of the gravest class. (Cinctn-
natl: Robert Clarke Coz a.
: "A General Survey Of American Literature"
By Mary Fisher. The author Of this volume
has written not only book Of valuable in
sn Rs hs
Individual lives other subjects as to make
her chapters profoundly interesting. She
says that her book "has grown largely out
or her work in the classroom Rarely
has book so admirably adapted to classroom
study been made SO notably interesting to
the general reader. The volume contains
terse. clear, honest studies Of those men and
women who have done most to raise the
standard Of literary work in the United States.
Three Earles-those of Prescott, Motley, and
Parkman, represent historical literature.
while the leading romancists mentioned are
Irving, Hawthorne Thoreau, and HoWells;
and the poets noted are bryant, Longfellow.
Whittier, Poe Holmes; and Lowell. wv. E.
Charming represents the work Of theologians,
Willie the transcendentalists are also given
full chapter. Each biographical sketch is ac-
companied by a critical estimate Of the per-
| sens work, which bears no mark of faGs or
favoritlsm. The tranScendcnt&lists organized
club at Brook farm in 1886. 1t attracted
Emerson, Charming, Hawthorne, James Free
man Clarke Alcott, Ripley, George William
Curtis, Theodore Parker, Margaret Fuller,
Elizabeth Peabody, LongfelloWs Charles A.
Dana, and many others. 1t was novel COM
rany o. Missionaries, whose avowed object
was Ito reform the prevailing philosophy
Of the day. and whose theory was that all
questions of the day should not be submitted
to scholars, but to the common sense Of the
race. Longfellow gives some graphic sketches
II intend to convert myself into a milk
| maid this evening; but pray heaven that.Mr.
Ripley be moved TO assign me the kindliest
cow in the herd, otherwise Ifshall perform
my duty with fear and trembling Being
a milkmaid, or, as he later expressed 1t, a
chambermaid to- coW+ and pigs, :" soon lost all
| its poetical glamour, and became the veriesS
| prose to poor Hawthorne;send he writes, un-
Ger cate Of the 12Ih Of August:
Joyful thought! In little more than .
fortnight shall be free from bondage, free
| tc enjoy nature; free ito think and feel Even
NY custom-house experience was not such
| thraldom and WEAKNESS. Oh! labor is the
| curse Of the world, and nobody can NEEDLE
with It without becoming brutifisd. Is it q
praiseworthy matter that / have spent five
golden months in providing food for cows and
torses? 1T is not so.''
He pronounced hisyslife at Brook farm IAN
illusion, masquerade, a pastoral, counter
| felt Arcadia, In which we men and women were
! making play-day of the years that were
given us to live in. : II ever have
deserved has not often been the case,
and think never-but If ever did deserve to
be. soundlY cu1fed by a fellow mortal for Sc
cretiy putting weight upon some imaginary
social advantage, 1t must have been while
was striving to prove myself ostentatiously
bis equal and no more. It was while sat
| my loe against his in the cornfeld, or broke
| the same crust Of bread, my earth-grimed
hand to his at his noontide lunch. The poor,
| proud man should look at both sides of SYM
pathy like this. "
Hawthorne soon ended such romantic non
sense by taking q wife and settling down to
LIES enjoyment. brook farm soon had a
literary organ. ThesDlal. with Ripley, Emer-
son, anG aidIEafet 31MeE eG1lors. 1nat il
made "a sensation is not doubted. The farm
boarded members for 81 a week; 1t allowed
members to work atrwhatever they liked, and
paid the same,wages for manual as for in
tellectual labor. The theory was that It was
an asylum where crime or poverty could
never enter, and whsre earthly bliss was in
reach. Ripley presented the organization his
splendid library. and Charles A. Dana was
secretary Of this band of Missionaries and
dreamers. The names OF so many Of. the ac-
tive participants in the movement who after
Wart filled such large places in the Nations
literature and history save the enterprise
from severe criticism. It was this movement
which gave Margaret Fuller prominence she
would not otherwise have received. She has
added not one 1.-THE as much Of honor and real
value to American literature as have q score
OF other noble American women, and yet she
is the only woman who has more than brief
mention In al the chapters Of this book, and
as well in q book on American literature no.
ticed last week. Tho author says Of her:
Margaret Fullerss standard was false
It was not the natural, but the unnatural,
that appealed to her. She had q decided bias
toward the romanticss the exaggerated. and
the eccentric. BY nature superstitious. al
believer in charms. fated days. talismans.
presenttments, she ignored real science, but
gave ready acquiescence to the prepoeter0ui
claims Of 'mesmerism and It's goblin brood
Subject, she says Of herself, to the sudden