The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-11-25

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children and they have the right to patrontze
the same hotels, churches, theaters. and to
intermarry 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, 1t needs neither
argument nor the citation of authorities to
show that they cannot be Disseminated
against In. any way whatever, Tor 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 q 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
from internnrrying with the whites, or cccu-
plying the same seatsin theaters. or riding in
the same railroad coaches with the white
people, and in many other ways discrimirated
against by the laws OF the states, which
recognized as valid by every department of
the United States, shows that the African In
habitants are not sovereign citizens Of the
states or Of the United states; for, II they
were soyerelen cM,.ens' every oaser ln al,.
a uns and void A1' $50"
but they are Inhabitants Of the United
States and Of the stgte wherein they reside,
and = orc MS tho1, aro ontstle.l ~
49, - - =. - =; -. 80 T1,tts
States and Of the state wherein they reside
alleRiance to any other nation. Prince or
not enAate. and have always resided In the
IIr1t..s n. % ,Aif,o ,,it a. datna tho
-. ~. - gIa,te, 60
81: ~ .,se ;, o''sss
suo s.asT .ne .7,.s W. ~
TUT theI 70 y. ,. ~
man OF TINS fourteenth aanenc1ne =, a'u not
intend 10 make the African lnnaDlnaMs SOW
erelgn cltizens, LOT, az sovereign citizens, NO
laws could De mace pronlDiang enem from
from Attending the same pubic SCHOOLS. ana
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
man Of the amendment" and closes hds vol
ume with this sentence: Therefore the
| colored race of people born In the United
States cannot constitute any part CT 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 emarrying black bucks" is not
only out of place In a thoughtful Law vo1-
| ume, but isr a grave insult to the intelli-
gent white people Of the South. If such ut
terances could possibly meet with applause
s ene "n;,,s - tha usst class 1Cincir-
NAIL na:i: i Robert Clarke Soy Cos. Ss.
"a Genoral snrvev. ~ Amer;can !. literature. -
n, N . =, Eishar srha .,,t nor ~ this volume
nc wri3+ az, ,,nt on1rf. hoox of valuable in
| strnct;on unnn 4 1nerican literature h1lt has
| Sc Interviewer facts and, Incidents into the
| Individual lives of her subjects as to make
her chapters profoundly interesting. She
saws that her hook s"has grown largely out
Of, her work in the clsasroom.'' Rarely
he's a book so admirably adapted to classroom
study been made So notably interesting to
| the general reader The volume contains
| terse, clear. honest studies 81 those men an q
women who have done most to raise the
standard Of literary work in the United States.
Three naElcs-th0se of Prescott, Motley, and
Parkman, represent historical literature.
while the ieadinz. mancists mentioned are
! Irving, Hawthorne, .Thoreau, and HoWells;
ard the poets noted are Bryant, Longfellow.
Whittier, Poe, Holmes, and Lowell. w. e.
Claiming represents the work of theoloRians
l-wLile the Observation-Disclosures are also gwen a
full chapter Each biographical sketch is ac-
companied byta critical estimate of the per-
scn's work, which bears mo- mark Of fads, OF
| favoritism. The transcendentalists organized
| q club at Brook farm in 1886. It attracted
| EMERSON Charming. Hawthorne, James Free
man Clarke. hlcott ,aRipley. George William
Curtis, Theodore Parker, Margaret Fuller,
Elizabeth Peabody Longfellow. Charles A.
Dana, sand many others. It was a novel COM
pany o. Missionaries whose avowed object
was TO reform t1e 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
NkyS~yn TS,rr f11s II