The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-05-24

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Mcclure, Phillips & CO. co. y 4,s3 ho i' !:
~ a great deal of literature has been pub
ern states In the years Immediately sue
ceedlng the great Civil War. 1t was
period Of problems: of fierce sectional and
ing epochs in the history OF the United
States for the historical student and
writer. The questions which arose in that
| one-halr centuries of human Slavery Re-
CONSTRUCTION had to do with three elements
OF the S.,Mthern population, who had resided
slde Dy sile Tor centuries, but who had been
| as distlnct socially and otherwise during
the 9TH: 18th and 10th centuries as though
they had e., been Inhabitants Of different coun
I tries Inc problem was one for Democracy
TO solVe, out 81 THE very depths of. ignor-
a B1 illlteracy and depravity: LincoIns
carfhg Sc by T. M
| wherein one expects to be made familiar
with the policy of the "Great Emancipa-
perasal of the eha1tere in this vaa
PIE contribution to the literature on this
subject subject of reconstruction disc!oses many
| icy of reconstruction prior to the cessation
| OF hostilities in 1865, and throws a flood of
light upon al the great actors and events
OF that stirring and critical period in our
In writing of Tennessee the author says
IN no part OF the late Confederate states
was the slave interest more feeble than in
! the thirty counties comprising East Ten
nessee," and he gives graphic description
OF the stout resistance put up by the people
OF That section OF the state to the secession
cause. Many prominent men of that part
of the state were prosecuted. assassinated
and thrown into jails. but these outrages
President Lincoln, in writing a letter to
Gen. Buell. on Jan. 6. 1862, among other
things said al L. BUT my distress is that our
| and driven to despair, and even now. fear
are thinking Of taking rebel arms for the
sake or personal protection. In this we
South" -
Then follows detailed description of the
0a utr1s perrgetrated uron the loyal Union
troops and symDathizers. Gen. Buell. failed
to accomplish the military movements plan.
F 46o by the president as necessary step to-
ment. but the genius of Cen, Grant fur
| nished a solution to the problem by his vic
tory at Fort Donelson, and tireless move
ments afterwards when he caused the evac-
uation of Nashville by the Confederate
| troops.
Andrew johnson was then appointed mil
instituted Lincoln's plan of reconstruction,
tine detas 1 Of which the author gives in
| plans and policy of the war president dis
crssed at length. The volume is invalua-
BILE as book of reference
| n treating of the plans adopted by Mr.
| Ilncoln for the reconstruction of the state
OF arkansas the author says Local re-
verses ,;s 81 however were not allowed to inter
rupt the comprehensive policy of the pres-
dent, and early in 1864 preparations were
made to reorganize the state government
This movement, like those in Tennessee and
Reconstruction Proclamation of Dec. 8,
1868 Even before this step had been
taken tax the president was already moulding
would ultimately undermine Confederate in
nuence IN the state In the preceding sum
mer u; 1Iiy 81 1862 he had written Gen. S.
Lebastian. of Arkansas, thinks of Offering
to resume his place in the Senate Of
to sdm al and no I 0ud
should feel great interest in the question,
It may be SO presented as to be one Of the
very greatest national Importance and it
may be otherwise so presented as to be of
no more than temporary personal conse-
quence to him. The emancipation procla-
nation applies to Arkansas X I
think shall not retract or repudlate it.
Those who shall have tasted actual freedom
/ believe can never be slaves OF quasi
In a chapter entitled "Culmination of the
Presidential Plan the author says: cable
and candid opponents of public. opinion in
the South, even those who were part of
the Lost Cause are almost unanimous in
regarding the assassination of President
Lincoln as one of the greatest calamities
deed the writer has heard a distinguished
editor ascribe to Jefferson Davis himself the
opinion that next. to the failure of the Con-
federacy the untimely death of Mr.. Lincoln
was the severest blow inflicted on Southern
interests. Many of the evils experienced by
their states during the early years of Con
avoided had the wise policy of President
Lincoln been carried OUT
w. UP FROM SLAVERY
Up From Slavery. BY Booker T. Wash
ington; $3.50? New York: Doubleday
Up From Slavery by Prof Booker I.
washington is remarkable volume by a
remarkable man. Autobiographical writing
is dangerous enterprise al best, and should
never be undertaken except by the great
men of earth. That Prof Washington be-
requires neither testimony nor proof, for #
is one of the accepted facts II
In writing of the place and date of his
ton in Franklin County, Virginia. / am
not quite sure of the exact date of my
birth, but at any rate suspect must have
been born somewhere and at sometime -
There is conscious humor in this sentence,
| a spice of wit, and the delicate sarcasm of
a great man, protesting against the insti-
tuition OF slavery-that institution which
had made it impossible, either for himself
or Frederick Douglass to know the exact day
Later on he says that he does not know
who his father Was-but that he knew that
| he was white man., :.@,<.} ,-.E -.
My Life had it's beginning in the midst
Of the most miserable desolate, and DIS
| born IN typical log cabin, about fourteen
py Us sixteen ,t.ee11 lee1 square In this cabin l
sister tin after the civil War, When we
| were all declared free = n - ..e
-. An account of his boyhood days-the
! struggle of his mother and elder brother
for the common necessities of life is mar
rated In SIMPLE manner which forms the
real charm Iar Of AR. Washington's literary
charm higher than that Of any style, for
it portrays the Kaleidoscope changes in the
upward toiling career OF youth, who
s5arted at an early age on tramp to the
of an education with boundless hope and
almost Infinite patience as his only assets.
tS this his unknown voyage over hill and dale
! city called Richmond, where he arrived
hungry friendless and penniless He says:
must must have walked the streets till after
that ! could walk no longer. Il was tired,
cov was hungry 1 ,sas eoe,y thing bnt dis
reae6ed 1qs about the tine that
came upon portion of a street where the
board side walk was considerably elevated.
no passers-by could see me, and then crept
under the Sidewalk and lay for the night
upon the ground" Mr.. Washington then re
lates thar the next day, he went down to
the RIVER and obtained work from the
captain of a ship, who was unloading a
cargo OF pig iron that his work so pleased
the captain that he continued to work for
him a number of days. sleeping under the
Sidewalk sc e.,s every night, economizing in order
He says that many years afterwards he
was rendered a public reception by the
citizens of Richmond in church. not far
from the spot where he had slept upon the
ground. That he. has also at the invitation
OF, friends been a guest in Saratoga hotel,
where he was formerly employed as wait
He writes a very entertaining chapter on
the Reconstruction Period and discusses
In a very comprehensive and practical man
ner the race problem at the South 1t Is
however, in writing of himself and of his