The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-12-12
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MONEY. BANKING, AND FINANCE.
Boles's Money. Banking and Finance.
R BY A!0e or s 6Gsf B Rh De- BaDE
Officers" etc, and Lecturer in the Uni
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as a textbook for COMMERCIAL High
Schools and the Commercial Courses SO. OF
reader. It is a brief. practical treatise
on the Theory of Money. the Practice
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f Res best of banRne Of day. and
ADDS those legal principles which refer to
the topics taken up. This is the first
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ing and works on the theory and history
of money and banking; DR.. Bolles IS an
authority on the subject, and presents
Concise con se manner This book will appeal
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themselves to the business of banking, TO
those who are thus engaged, ana ,' TO
those who are studying the history a1lu
theories of banking
THE LITTLE OWLS AT REDGATES.
The Little Owls at Redgates: BY Ella
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Illustrations drawn with great grace and
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POLITICAL HISTORY OF sLA A., !2;3
A Political History of Slavery. BY VIII
liam Henry Smith, With an INTRODUCTION
by Whitelaw Reid. Two volumes. Syo:
Net $3.50. BY mail, $500 New YORK:
"A Political History of Slavery by
VIM. Henry Smith, is an elaborated story
of the controversy, over the slavery cues
tion from the early days of the 18TH cen
tury to the close of the Reconstruction
period in the United States.
There is an introduction by WhiteiaW
Reid, which tells Of Mr.. Smiths career
cism of these two very instructive VOL
umeS.
Mr.. Reid says: This Political History
is written with the fulness of knowledge
having OF the
events from the inside as they occurred,
from lifelong familiarity with ana STUDY
of the entire range of the subjects: and
nation, in the papers of President Hayes
and Governor Brough, in the records OF
the state office held during critical part
communication with some of the actors
Again: LAS time goes on fuller justice
will be done, in the history of the move
ments by which a free people enlarged the
to leading men that relied upon typical
Anglo Saxon means for the correction OF
wrongs and the better development Of
Greeley '|i first among public educators to
Chase and Seward, Stanton and Welles'
first among legislators and cabinet min
listers. and finally to the peer, If not the
superior of them all, and certainly the
most capable politician of the list, Abra-
ham Lincoln
In Chapter I. the author says: IF there
is one tnlnS clearly eSldDllSilcu, IL 10 I1e'I
slavery was deprecated by the men who
formed the Constitution; who, recogniz-
ing that such an institution was inconsis-
tent with Christian civilization. inconsis-
| tent with the great principles of civil lib
erty for which the colonies had contended
and which constitute the basis of our Re
public refrained from inserting in that
great charter name SO reRulslve TO 1ree so
rercipiept witnesses to the public sentl-
ment of that day. There was no state
free from the faint of slavery and the
feeling that it was injurious to society
was in no sense dependent upon sectional
| lines. It's ultimate extinction was gener-
ally confidently expected emanclpatlon
was to be the rule This came early north o11;h
to suppose that if there had been no inhi-
| bition of. the African slave trade, enamel
patton would have followed in Delaware.
Maryland, North Carolina, Kentucky and
| Tennessee
"Opposition to the institution of slavery
arose from religious convictions as to it's
sinfulness or from economic and social
policies The resistance Of those who
with MI. Jefferson condemned it because
of its destructive influence became as
! impotent as his, or succumbed to the vio-
lence of political forces; while that hav-
an important part in the creation Of a
third party. The Society of Friends led all
other denominations in the employment
of moral influence for the eradication of
=
outspoken utterances in the Presbyterian,
Baptist and Methodist churches at an
carly day. especially in Ohio, Kentucky
and Tennessee
conspicuous a leader in the anti-slav-
cry contest endeavored to show the I'M
faithfulness of current history in dealing
with the genesis of modern abilitionism,
and thereupon a controversy sprang UP in
the public prints as to whether VIM.
Lloyd Garrison, Benjamin Lundy or Chas.
Osborne was entitled to be styled the first
Apostle Of Emancipation. Geo, w. Julian.
history clearly established the claims Of
Osborne to- be mentioned before either
Lundy or Garrison: but strangely over
looked the claims Of another whose career
was strikingly like that OF Lundy-John
Woolnaan. a Friend, who was born in New
Jersey about 1920. Then follows an &C
ingly interesting and of his anti-slavery
sentiments. When about 26 years Of age
he visited North Carolina, where he
sought to arouse the consciences of slave:
holders and wrote an essay entitled Con-
siderations on the Keeping of Negroes
!. After his death in 1772, his Journal,
which was published. had a wide circula'
ton. 1t shows that his life was given to
the work Of emancipation. He Travelled
from colony to colony, preaching remon-
strating and counseling.
The author discusses with painstaking
detail ai the p nFree Son Mexement The
Compromise, THE Nomination Of Lin
coln:' and in their discussion exhibits a
wealth of information and breadth of
knowledge. which could only result from
many years study and contact with the
leading men of those stirring times.
Vol. II opens with chapter on "The
Outbreak of the War; in which he says:
I'm the history of nations weak rulers are
treated with scant respect. They become
the dupes of Knaves, the instrument of
oppression; they imperil governments and
invite disorders to enter in; they are the