The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-04-25

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Vatican Museum. Then follows several
very interesting anecdotes anent.y the
mysterious power for good or evil clus-
teIing about the little winged god.
birds have in turn been worshipped by III.
early European races-by the Greeks, Ro-
mans, Egyptians zAbyssinians and other
powerful races who wrought SO nightly
The author further tells us that cit is
recorded of King Edward the First Of
England that on certain solemn occa :
sion in the year 1904, his investiture as
nets, were brought in, and he thereupon
sWore an oath to the God of Heaven on
these two swans. =.ts|
JOHN JAMES INGALLS,. -
John James ingalls,. The writings of
John James ingalls,. Prepared for the
Pp. $751; Price according to binding.
Kansas City, Mo. The Hudson Kimberly
Company. T~
The writings. speeches. and orations of
the late Senator ingalls, one of the great
est men Kansas has produced, have been
gathered and preserved to future genera
tons in book form, and the collection is
authorized by Mrs. Ingalls,, who has de-
voted nearly two years to the work of
collecting material for the volume. Be
sides his literary work, there is revealed
what may be called tho home side Of this
distinguished z; man. which ~. viii make in in
mirers. Letters and fragmentary sketches
which have been included exhibit a gentle
and tender r. quality in the natpre an id
not manifest to the world in his public
career The country looked upon him as
a man of phenomenal brilliancy, with a
tendency to satire and keen excoriation,
x1y1,i ah him Crro, hv
enemies and his competitors in debate,
and which drew to the Senate galleries
thousands of auditors whenever it was
known that he was to speak. It is prob
tive and his mastery of language was
not equaled by any of his contemporaries.
But it is with Senator ingalls, as man
Of deep and responsive affection, and as
reflective individual, alive to all the hui
man interests of existence, that the book
presented by his devoted wife has to deal.
ton of the phase of her husbands char
acter which Mrs Ingalls, desires to en-
phasiZe:
Dearest Wife: "Blue Grass" seems to
world will not willingly let die.
Those We're happy days when, it was
written, in the little cottage on the bluff,
looking out over the great river with a
waiting for the destiny, so soon to come
(that was to make me one of the con-
spicuous figures of the country for Sc
many years. How far away it seems!
it over again if 1 could, unless with the
power to improve lost opportunities,
amend errors and correct mistakes How
clearly we see our G fG1lgS when It Is too
I a. m.
THE STORY OF THE SLAVE.
Slavery and Servitude in New Jersey
BY Alfred M. Heston. Member of the
New Jersey. Historical Society. Camden
N. j.: Sinnickson Chew & Sons co.
This monograph is a recital of slavery
and servitude as it existed in New Jer-
sey. The fact is brought out that slav-
cry existed in America long before 1919
when the Dutch traders came with their
cargo Of human freight to Jamestown.
The Aztecs in Mexico enslaved not only
enemies taken in battle but those of their
ofbHr w0 were OF Wa
introduced in NeW Jersey in 168O-at least
that is the earliest recorded. instance of
ownership of African slaves. Many of
the leading citizens engaged in the Afri-
can slave trade. There is a record of one
good old elder. whose ventures on the
African coast always turned out well,
who returned thanks on the Sunday fol-
lowing the arrival of a SLAYER into the
harbor in these words: "An overruling
Providence~has5 been pleased to bring to
this land of freedom another cargo Of
Don1SuCou nodCHcl 10 ENJOY Tie DlcoSlISS
of gospel dispensation."
Perth A1nboy was New Jerseys chief
port of entry, and blacks were to be seen
there in goOdly numbers, many of them
freshly imported and still bearing their
tribal marks Adults sold from 5000 to
$500. The system of white bondage,
known as redemptive servitude, existed
throughout the seventeenth and eigh-
teenth centuries. This form of bondage
was usually voluntary, and at the expira-
ton Of the term the redernptioners were
merged into the mass of white population
without any special faint of servitude-
The importation into the colony of Negro
slaves, who were found to be cheaper
than white servants, checked in a meas
ure the trade in redemptioners.
Many white convicts were shipped to
New Jersey from the British Islands, and
were merged into the mass of the popu-
lation: An act providing for the gradual
abolition of slavery was passed by the
New Jersey legislature in 1904. A fur
Their act in 1920 and still later another
in 1916, did not bring about the complete
emancipation of the slaves, although
there were but Is in the entire state when
Lincoln's proclamation was issued IL
1880. Hon. GarTet A. Hobart at that time
Il member of the state senate, introduced
and had passed a bill which removed
from the statutes the last vestige of slav-
cry in New jersey
The little book contains much valuable
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