The Appeal., 1902-02-22
4 TWO TREATIES OF PARIS

tenderness and atlOS has rarely
been surpassed by writer's Of fiction.
two. TREATIES OF PARIS.
Rrap RMebStsr: e.: s. % New York: Harper &
The two treaties are those of 1903 by
which the great Louisiana Purchase was
pines, Porto Rico and Guam Were ceded to
the United States S'7s,Sl s
The author discloses a great many hith-
erto obscure facts Of. diplomatic and
| political character connected With the form
er, and discusses the leading political
phases of the latter. :,
It IS interesting to note that when the
| IN Congress, the same arguments were then
used about the inability Of the Republic
ale GO acquire u. foreign territory because Of
by the anti-imperialists pending the rati-
hcation Of the last Paris treaty.
Inc author pays glowing eulogy to the
political and diplomatic fnesse of Thomas
| jefferson, who acquired by his residence
at Paris as the American minister an in
Innate knowledge of the intrigues of Eu-
rope, which enabled him as Secretary of
State to guide with such masterful genius
| the foreignspolicy of the infant Republic
. He. refers to jefferson as a personality
peeled Spain to have retired from Cuba
without without war, and relinquished its sover-
m5s peope Of qhe fne y Spanish speaking
IT. There arr" great many interesting his
forical facts, which the author with great
with the acquisition of these large foreign
| possessions, which have hitherto remained
Obscured. -. /. ~. g-I..--..- ;. :
The volume is Indispensable to the aver
age American reader anxious to know all
! 9t the leading facts about these 1.-TWO
Treaties, the result of which lifted the
United States out Of it's proyincilism and
The Civil War and the Constitution. By
John ": Burgess, Ph. D., LII. D., professor
OF political science M and constitutional Law
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
Th1s is a work showing profound histori.
cal research, and altogether rare contribu-
ing M pe Reriod Of our national history from 1853
I'm In II the e opening chapter Of Vol. the au-
thor says: THE Kansas-Nebraska Act, the
Dred Scott decision, and the anti-Lecomp-
ton triumph had brought the politics of the
country into a nebulous condition. New
around which the vapors should become
solidified and clarified in order that the con.
hlcting forces might appear distinct in
which required the advent Of Strong @ grrs person.
alltles and their advance to the front They
aappeared appehasl They, They We're Jefferson Davis,
Douglas -(41 ''N ''epnen i'ite Aino'u
Then follows an interesting description
OF each of this celebrated triumvirate of
In Tou@e eeea he PeyGd psTs II our hstry
remembered that the Republican party was
not not, originally an Abolition party, but an
gradually an Abolition party through the
experiences and necessities of war; His
description Of the creed and tenets of Sc
cession Is both lucid and simple:
theory oh 4
| mght OF secession was based was that the
United States was a confederation of SOW
erelgntles connected with each other by an
at it's own pleasure. It was held that Sc
cession was both sovereign and legal
right: shto,d;1 In support Of the view that it was
| a sovereign right, they argued that sover-
elgn IS not subject to law, and that there
dore there can be no limitation upon a SOW
ere1gn'S right r. - = ~.
These two volumes cover in a masterful
| manner the entire range of political and
military questions of that period and take
rank n the first class of American historical
| !, Aguinaldo, Luna and Pana, the ablest of
en ene military leaders, are compimented in
| political leaders in the revolt against Spain.
! IN that insurrection, justifable because of
the; the t;reachery ; Of Spain in breaking her
cruelty against the .Filipinos, Dr. Rial, the
,;s.iHyr' piayed an important role, which is
+r;diH The :, same me-, men. however, who were pa
lrlots IN their struggle against Spanish op-
poesStoI poes"S become misguided leaders of their
geople in II their contest against the United
;n tSs e,s4 nae same men who were eulogized
cnndaTs 5nT nlst eW9 chapters are ridiculed and
a vnrV ;nta1ns+S IN .ne succeeding chapters:
Ko4;ry very lnaerestlng g description Of the
GasnnR;hnd organizatlon Is given, which is
sescriDed sescr nk as degenerate forms Of Ma
sixtcSn+h one+ dne aulnor says that early in the
tha Sonn;sf ;EGfntuiy III an unguarded moment