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New-York tribune., 1903-07-12

William Lloyd Garrison and his school OF
radical abolitionists, who cursed the Consti-
tuition and denounced it a covenant with
death. have oddly enough come to be thought OF
as prophets and heroes of the movement which
made this nation of freemen. whereas if they
had had their way it would have been broken
into several petty States. in some of which
slavery would have been perpetuated. Without
indulging in any depreciation of the sincerity or
the influence of the abolitionists, though it fire.
quently notes the harmful bitterness which
they engendered Mr.. Smiths history gives due
recognition to the laborS Of the who
ada pied the regular instruments Of self-gOvern-
ment to the lawful transformation OF the ma
tion from a servant of slavery into a servant of
freedom. Such study traverses the familiar
ground of American history and naturally re-
tells the well known story of administrations
and political parties, save for the almost entire
elimination of those phases of national history
not directly connected with the slavery ques-
ton The particular value of the work will be
found to lie in its point of view, not merely as
a study of the special politics of slavery, but,
more important still. as the study of a Western
man who gives due weight not always ac-
corded to the part played by the Mississippi
Valley in the struggle for freedom.
The Eastern States have. perhaps, had more
than their fair share of glory for emancipation.
They were prolific IN historians and their rad
ical abolitcnists early aroused the hatred of
the South. that when the all Union
men short OF actual Copperheads were classed
indiscriminately as Yankee abolitionists." Even
in the early days of secession, the South per-
sisted in thinking that anti-slavery sentiment
ruled only in the Eastern States and hoped to
detach the Middle West from support of the
Union. Yet in that Middle West were some of
the earliest and strongest practically effective
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anti-slavery forces Moreover, they sprang up
in the southern part of the region largely among
men of slaveholding antecedents- MI smith IS
at pains to correct the mistake OF heHIS
Wilson in saying that anti-slavery sentiment IN
Ohio was chiefly due to New-Engianu eiih-
grants. Though in 1901. in spite OF It's great
charter of freedom in the Ordinance OF 1884,
Ohio had enacted a rigorous black code IN
tended to drive colored people from the state
its Governor was. as early as 1871. obliged IN
answer to Kentucky complaints of difficulty IN
recovering slaves, TO acknowledge that a uni
versaI prejudice against the principle Of slavery
does exist" Two years later Charles Ham
mond induced the legislature to memoriahze
Congress against the creation Of any new slave
States or Territories.
Soon after the Missouri Compromise the pro
slavery element which ruled Ilinois for many
years. under the leadership of emigranJs from
the free States who thought that slave labor
would increase the value of their lands. sought
to introduce slavery into their constitution
Governor Coles a native Of Virginia, and
eighteen members of the legislature. ten Of
New-York tribune., 1903-07-12

them from slave States. protested against such
action, and after hard struggle defeated the
proposed constitution at the polls in 1924
All through this early period anti-slavery SEN
timent was strong among the churches in the
South. John Woonan, the New-Jersey Quaker.
whom the author regards the apostle OF
emancipation" had preached his doctrines in
North Carolina in 1882. and after his death. in
17T2, his journal had a wide circulation The
Friends generally adopted his ideas. and at the
beginning of the nineteenth century many of
them left the Carolinas and Virginia for the
free territory of Southern Ohio and Indiana.
Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist churches
in the South adopted resolutions against sla-
very and as late as 1886 the Synod of Kentucky
appointed a committee to prepare plans for the
religious instruction and future emancipation
of slaves Meanwhile, however, reaction had
set in Fanatics North and South had been at
work and converted what had been largely a
question of moral reform into a sectional con-
troversy The Southern politicians who had
selfish interest in slavery found it necessary to
meet the moral convictions OF their own people.
They began to proclaim that slavery was good
in itself and to represent the South the
victim of unfriendly interference. In this they
were helped by the intemperance of Northern
Abolitionists Good men in the South began to
fear revolution and ruin of civilization in the
agitation. The Southern anti-slavery sentiment
was repressed; and in this same year. 1886. the
Methodist Episcopal General Conference. in Gin
cinnati, in spite of its own record, condemned
abolition and censured two members who had
addressed an apti-slavery meeting The reac
ton extended over the North Conservative
patriotism discountenanced anti-slavery agita-
tion. 1t was only as the Southern politicians
became aggressive and attempted to make the
national government the abject instrument OF
New-York tribune., 1903-07-12
SLAVERY.
Its Political History TraUerSed by
the Late W. III. Smith.

A POLITICAL, HISTORY OF SLAVERY. ReinG
an Account of the Slavery Controversy from the
Earliest Agitations in the Eighteenth Ctn5uTy
to the Close of the Reconstruction Ierlco IN
America BY William Henry Smith WITH an
Introduction by Whitelaw Reid In TWO Voe-
u1nes. Svo. PIP. Vol. l, xvi, $50; Vol H. 400
C. Z. Putnam's Sons
The abolition of slavery was more an achleVe-
ment of practical politics than of sentimental
agitation, though this fact is often lost sight or
After the work was done the voices which crled
the loudest with impracticable demands re-
ceived vast deal of credit for progress which
they had done their best to obstruct 50 does
popular judgment jump from the beginning 10
the end of a reform, forgetting to inquire ABOUT
the means especially if aided by persistent
eulogy of spectacular reformers at the ex-
nense of the real directors OF efficient force
New-York tribune., 1903-07-12

A strange piece of news has come out OF faTls-
II appears that the noyelists who for twenty
wears have allowed the books upon when they /
have collaborated to go forth as from the
brothers Rosny," have been earned lhto coul'
m answer the charge of appropriating name |
tn which it is asserted, they have no right |
They have attached it, without hitherto having |
burt anvbodv's feelings, to the title pages OF
como forty Volumes but this makes no dlt1er- |
once tn the NJ Leon ROsny who has brouSht
suit against them He must be very CURIOUS III
dividual for it is stated that his own name Is
not really Rosny at all, but merely fruhol ne
is only Leon Prunol. moreover. haVlhg' 50 LIZ
as can be learned, no right to use the arlsto-
cratic narticle We await with interest further
reports of this extraordinary case, and In the
mean time wonder if other sensitive souls VIII
follow M. Prunors example and hale other au-
thors before the law. NoVeliStS nowadays nave
no hesitation about introducing into their stories
names not at all commonplace, and yet easily
enough paraIeIed in the directory. Only the
other day we found In a novel character
wearing a name which seemed as if it must
sureIv have been suggested by that of a certain
family On the whole, it is better for the aver
age novelist to be thus indiScreet than to invent
names for his personageS, or TO follow DICKENS )
example and put eccentric names into print
The publication Of Mr. j. L. lie b. haH-
mond's new book on Charles James Fox, In
which he has endeavored to draw the character
of that statesman along very ingratiating lnes'
is noticed by The Saturday Review" with
certain impatience. Classifying it with the
books in which, of recent years, attempts have
been made to whitewash Peter the Great, Rich
ard III and Judge JeffTeyS, the reviewer adds:
"Such efforts are always attractive by their
audacity and righteousness; but we are not
aware that any of them have achieved their
end" The point is well taken. We do not
know of n single enterprise of the sort, these
MANY years which has been permanently sue
cessful. The dubious characters of history re-
main as unedifyng after they have been white
washed as before Nevertheless, we believe
that these rewrtings of history serve legiu-
versing established judgments, they at all
events do something to humanize figures often
clothed in unduly lurid colorS in the popular
Imagination 1t is futile to tell us that man
whose wickednesS has been COnclusively demon
strated was really a saint. The new doCu-
invariably fail of their purpose. But few Of the
bad men of history have been mere blood
thirsty monsters, and the embarrassing" au-
thOrs help, sometimes more than the most i'm
partial historian, to emphasize this fact. They
turn Lucifer into man, which may seem In
judcious but really makes for better under
standing all around.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-12

The activity among American publishers and
booksellers, to which reference was made in
this place last Sunday. has not been paral-
leled, it seems among their brethren across
the Atlantic The general agreement in Lon
don is that ''the past six months in the book
world have been unsatisfactory" Every one
believed that when the war in South Africa
was ended the countless Britons who had been
reading nothing but the newspapers would be-
gin to buy books again. The war has already
dulness continues" Some believe that the
craze for automobiles has caused the falling off
in the book trade. Others maintain that more
people would be buying books if it were not
that so many are playing bridge. 1t all seems
pretty hopeless guessing, but it might be anus
ing to look into the question and discover, per-
haps, some of the reasons why people do not,
at times, buy books Is it because there are
so many magazines offered to them? Or is it
because the very processes by which book is
supposed to get itself engineered into great
popularity actually work to its detriment?
There are many people in this world who are
nauseated by the fulsome praise bestowed upon
certain worthless publications. Not unnatu-
rally reader who has once been betrayed
into making unsatisfactory purchase by this
sort of thing ever after distrusts the journal in
which he finds it. and so far as he is concerned,
the book trade falls off.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-12-22
HERMAN TROTT I'LL
Pioneer Settler of St. Paul In
Critical Condition.

Herman Trott, one Of the very early
residents of st. Paul and an active fac
tor in the building up Of the city and
state and the development of the rail-
road facilities Of the Northwest. is
critically i'll at st. JOseph's hospital
Mr.. Trott is seventy-four years OF
age, but in spite of his years remained
vigorous and hearty and continued to
walk about the city until about two
months ago, when he was stricken with
paralysis. A second stroke followed
closely upon the first and other alarm
ing symptoms have developed which
cause grave fears as to the possibility
of his recovery.
Mr.. TrOtt came to st. Paul in the fff-
ties, and from the time of his arrival he
took an active part in the business life
of the city. He was for many years
land agent of the old St Paul g. Pacific
railroad, which was the beginning of
the Great Northern system, and was
afterward connected with the Northern
Pacific in the same capacity.
For some few years he was located
on the Pacific coast, but upon his re-
tirement from active business life, sew
eral years ago, he returned to St Paul
to resume his residence here
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-12-22
ARCHBISHOP PAYS
TRIBUTE TO IRISH ART
Mgr. Farley Is Presented Fac SiniIe
of ChaIice Made in Ninth Century.

NEW YORK, Dec. 21-In celebration
of his first anniversary as archbishop
a gold chalices was presented tonight
to Archbishop Farley by the members
Of the Ancient Order of Hibernians.
The presentation address was read by
Maj Edward T. McCrystaI and the
chalice was formally presented by the
Very Rev. DR.. McCreedy.
Archbishop Farley, in Responding,
paid a high tribute to the deIicacy Of
early Irish art, of which the ehalice is
a representation, and after reference to
much that is inspiring in the history of
Ireland, declared that home rule must
come, and expressed the hope and the
confidence that Ireland will stand forth
~regenerated and disenthralled, and
take her place among the greatest Of
the nations.
The chalice, which cost $4,000, is in
part a fac sinliie, Of one made in the
ninth century after the famed ancient
chalice of Ardagh,a now in the Royal
Irish academy Of Dublin.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-12-22
ZERO WEATHER DUE
FOR SEVERAL DAYS
Cold Wave Is a Minnesota Affair, as II
Is Colder Out West.

A cold wave struck st. Paul again
yesterday, and by o'clock this morn
ing, according to the predictions of
the weather man, zero weather should
be on, and 1t will continue cold for
several days
The drop in temperature yesterday
amounted to II degrees. 1t was 2S
above zero at o'clock yesterday
morning and II above twelve hours
later. we shall have a further drop
Of about IL degrees during the next
twelve hours" said the weather OBJ
server last night.
The lowering temperature was ac-
companied by biting wind, which
made 1t very uncomfortable on the
streets. This wind, from the north
west, will continue for the next two
days.
The cold wave is confined to East
ern Minnesota. In the Northwest the
thermometers all showed a rise yester-
day, while IN st. Paul, Duluth and
Moorhead there was a rapid drop.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-12-22
WILL COST. $I5O,OOO
Aldermen Award Contract for
Macadamizina w. Seventh.

One of the first of the big city i'm
provements to be made in the spring
will be the macadamizing of West Sew
enth street from Tuscarora street to
Fort Smelling.
Including the investment that the
street ear campany will make in
double tracking the Fort Smelling car
line, and the laying of a big water
main the entire length of the street
by the water department, the cost of
the improvement will not be far short
Of $150,0Oe. 7
The cost of the macadamizing of the
street alone viii be $69,S72. and the
street ear company, in addition to re-
newing it's tracks and putting in new
ballast, will pay $26,588 of the amount
for resurfacing.
Yesterday the board Of aldermen ap-
proved the award of the contract to
Fielding & Shep1ey for the macadamfz-
ing of the street, but the assembly last
night sent the award to the committee
on streets for investigation.
The property owners will be charged
so cents a front foot for the work.
The balance Of the cost will be met by
the city at large. The budget, which
was approved several days ago. con-
eoeAAAS0 Oh ACC1lL VI $oVJ0UU 1Of Tie WOfk.
The matchmaking of the street will
not be commenced before spring.
Alderman Rohland. Of the Fifth
ward, and Commissioner Van Hoven
have been active in securing the i'm
provement; in fact they are RESPONSE
BILE for the progress Sc, far made. Both
obtained law authorizing an issue of
bonds to aid. in the work, but it was
declared invalid because 1t was special
IcsI tTFAK1 7lN@
was next appealed to, and it gave the
desired aid
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-12-22

The evangelist and exhorter is failure
in Minnesota. 1t requires something more
than mere exhortation-to save the souls IN
this community, and the eYangeliStS who
have come here from the South and other
fields where their work has been crowned
with success have been fiatfailures.
presiding elder of the st. Paul conference
Thus spoke DR.. J. F. Stout. Of Hamline,
of the Methodist church, at a meeting of
the Methodist Ministers association, held
at the Bethel hotel yesterday afternoon.
Dr. Stout came to ST. Paul only recent
~. and his remarks created something Of
a sensation among the Methodist minis
ters of the city who were present at the
meeting yesterday. Continuing, he said:
1t is a recognized fact that so-called or
atory has not succeeded here as it did
farther south. The-moSt successful even
gelists of the country have come to Min
nesota only to find this locality their Wa
terloo. Their work fell fiat, and they could
not. understand why they could not hold
their audiences here as they did farther
south and in other localities.
Experience teaches us that pastors who
depend upon their orateEical ability fail
to reach the best results The people
here require something more than mere
oratory and eXhOrtation.
Doing Business on Falling Market.
But there are some excuses for the lack
of success in the church work in St Paul
during the past few years, and this Is true
of other churches as well as the Metho-
dist. One of the reasons is that we have
been doing business on a falling market
a falling business market. The collapse
of the real estate boom. followed by what
was almost a panic, took away much of
the contributing power to the church.
But the church has done well under ad-
verse conditions. 1t can be said for Min
nesota that we have as fine body of lay
men, measured by liberality, conviction
and loyalty to purpose, as can be found
anywhere
Whatever fault there is may be found
to some extent both in the pulpit and the
pew.
I believe there should be a greater di-
rectness In preaching, called in olden
thing more than exhertation. Behind 1t
there must be an application of truth and
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-12-22
VAN SAINT TAKES TO
THE IOWA TIMBER
GOVernor. Escapes the Politi-
clans Who Want to Make
Political Trades.

Gone! 80 go
This morning the Republican leaders
who are determined to assist the gov
ernor in his task of getting the admin
istration ship by the Collins fesigna-
ton rocks. will search the executive
chambers in vain, for Gov. Van SAINT
has departed for the quiet to be found
in the peaceful little burg of Daven-
port, Iowa.
For several days after the resigna-
ton was scheduled as due, the gov
ernor sat at his desk waiting for the
word from the supreme court justice
that would permit him to act. Time
and time again the uniformed scouts
on duty in the halls of the state house
saw Judge Collins leave his chambers
and the word was hurried to the gov
ernor. Cuffs, were pushed into place
and the Prince Albert was smoothed
and buttoned. but the judge passed
on to the court room and the slate was
viciously jabbed back into it's pigeon
hole -
Now the administration is convinced
that there will be nothing doing until
the present term of court is ended, or
at least until after the holidays, and,
fearing that the slate would not be able
to withstand the handling of leaders
fioeking to The: rescue, the governor
has fed to the winter quarters of his
steamboat feet
Collins Respiration Still to Come.
Many politicians believe that the
governor is wasting attention on his
slate, and aE Minneapolis evening pa
per last night announced that the latest
report had Judge Collins determined
resfgnatienranay still be looked for.
According to a Republican in close
touch with Judge Collins, the resigna-
tion is to come as promised.
There is, no truth in these reports
that Judge Collins is not to resign
said this man, yesterday. "a mistake
may have been made in delaying the
resignation, but we do not see it in this
light. We admit that the judge might
have, looked over the situation more
thoroughly before announcing his can
didacy, but that's all of the past now.
He is not being harmed any by the
delay. It has given him a chance to
learn several things to his advantage.
The others are up in the air and they
do not know just what to do. They
may do things that will help Judge
Collins.
"One thing is certain, though, and
that is, that Judge Collins will resign
/ in the near future, and will be a most
active candidate in the race for the
Republican gubernatorial nomination
at the state convention.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-12-22
WALLS FALL ON HIM
New York Battalion Chief Is
Killed in a Fire.

NEW YORK, Dec. 21-The 1.-TWO
Nines'' fire alarm was sounded tonight for
q terrific fire which destroyed the six
story factory building of the Hermann
Furniture and Plumbing Cabinet works,
in Mott street. and the four story varnish
factory Of the firm, run under the name
of the II. Hermann company. A quarter
of million dollars damage was done.
Battalion Chief Martin Coleman per-
ished in the fall of two great walls Of the
factory. There was a frightful panic
among the Italian inmates of the swarm
ing front and rear tenements, opposite
and in the rear of the burning buildings
and the fremen and police reserves from
three precincts had the utmost difficulty
in getting the people out to the street.
The fire started on the third floor, and
when the firemen arrived the first, second
and third floors were in a blaze. Battalion
Chief Coleman had entered the building
with a number of men, including Lieut..
Jones and Father Smith, the fire depart
ment chaplain. They We're about twen-
ty-tive feet inside when fire came through
the walls ana the building shook. The
firemen dashed fer the outside. The chap
lain escaped, but a beam fell and hit
Coleman and Jones' pinning them to the
floor Father Smith, with three firemen,
IuLHSu DdcA " OlI0 lSseuS e'lt0 VI A0S9oN
out Jones who had staggered to his feet.
Jones in pulling himself out, felt for
Coleman. He found him so pinned he
could not rescue him, but he got htsvhel-
met, which he had put on and esacped-
Within minute the entire rear and side
walls fell.
After the building had been totally de-
stroyed the body of Chief Coleman was
found wedged- under fallen debris. He
was made a battalion chief last August.
He won the Bennett meadal for bravery
eight years ago for rescuing two women
from boarding house fire.
Richard Joyce, a fireman, was reported
missing after the fire was out
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-12-22
He LEAVES HOSPITAL
Miner Simard's Recovery Sur.
pFiSeS Physicians.

After lingering over month in the
shadow of death, MINER Simard, the
carpenter who was injured Nov. Ia,
while at work on the West Publishing
Companys new addition, is now so
far recovered as to be able to walk
about. He was yesterday taken from
the city hospital to the home of a
brother at AIS Sherburne avenue, after
being confined to bed five weeks.
When Simard was struck down by
heavy timber which he was carrying
with three fellow workmen his skull
was fractured at the base Of the brain
and so badly was he injured that
it was at first thought that he had
been killed outright A call was sent
for Coroner Miller, but DR.. Moore, po-
lice surgeon, who arrived in response
to a summons discovered that the man
was alive. Blood flowed from Simard's s
ears, mouth and nose, and it seemed
as though death was imminent. He
was hurried to the hospital, where he
was attended by the house physicians
and DR.. A. w. Whitney. While suf-
fering from the fractured skull his con-
dition was complicated by nephritis
which developed as a result Of the
shock of the injury, and for weeks
his life was despaired of.
With remarkable vitality, however,
he rallied and gradually recovered
strength and consciousness. He still
suffers slight paralysis, however. His
sense of smell is somewhat impaired
and one eyelid is paralyzed.
To overcome the defect Of the eyeIfd
which he Is unable to open Simard
has invented a contrivance by which
he holds the lid up, giving him use of
his vision. The invention consists of
a combination of rubber straps with a
small clamp to lift and hold up theh
eyelid.
DR.. Whitney says that Simard will
be able to go back to work as soon as
he RECEIVERS his strength. His recovery
is regarded as remarkable