The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-12-24

liam Henry Smith. with an Introduction
! BY Whitelaw Reid. Two volumes. Syo
net: $40: BY mail, $500 New York:
"A Political History of Slavery" by
VIM. Henry Smith, is an elaborated story
| of the controversy over the slavery ques-
| fury to the close Of the Reconstruction
period in the United States m
There is an jntrod4etion by Wl1itelaw
Reid, which tells of MI. Smiths career
cism OF these two very instructive vol
| umes.
Mr.. Reid says: This Political History
| is written with the fullness of knowledge
that comes from having seen many of the
events from the inside as they occurred
| from lifelong familiarity with and study
| of the entire range of the subjects, and
from access to much unpublished infor-
and Governor Brough, in the records of
| the state office held during a critical part
of the period, and in constant personal
! comm unication with some of the actors
| Again: AS 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
Anglo-saxon institutions; - to Horace
Chase and Seward, Stanton and Weiles,
| 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 thing clearly established it is that
| slavery was deprecated by the men who
| formed the Constitution: who, recognize
| 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
| which basis Of
public, RETAINED from inserting in that
! great charter name so repulSive to free
DOM we mHst conclude I'll that they were
| 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 Its ultimate extinction was gener-
ally confidently expected: emancipation
was to be the rule. This came early north
of Maryland, and it is not unreasonable
to suppose that if there had been no inhi-
bition of the African slave trade, emanci-
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 Mr.. Jefferson condemned it because
of its destructive influence became as
lmpotent as his, or succumbed to the vio-
lence of political forces; while that hav-
ing its source in religious feelings played
an important part in the creation of a
other denominations in the employment
the public prints as to whether VIM
Lloyd Garrison, Benjamin Lundy or Chas.
Of moral influence for the eradication of
slavery. though there were not wanting
outspoken utterances in the Presbyterian,
Baptist and Methodist ct;.rches at an
early day, especially in Ohio Kentucky
and TENNESSEE
Some years ago one who had been
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 controversy sprang up in
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
l1undy or Garrison. but strangely over
looked the claims of another whose career
was Strlkingly like that OF Lundy-JOhn
Woolman. a Friend, who was born in New
Jersey about 1920 Then follows an ac-
count of his early life and career. exceed
ingly interesting and of his anti-slavery
he visited North Carolina, where he
sought to arouse the consciences of slave
hoidsr s and wrote an essay entitled Con,
After his death in 1872, 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 the Free Soil Movement,'' 1.-The
Omnibus Biz" ..r Repeal Of the Missouri
coin 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.
l. Vol. III, ODenS with A. chAntar '"Th0
Outbreak Of TIE War; in which he says:
I'm the history Of nations weak rulers are
wt6 Sfant essp fS Thg hseqe
oppression; they irnperil: goyernments*a and
real enemies to Human PROGRESS: When
with men resoaute jiW purpose to disrupt
| the Union and overthrow the government.
he construed the fundamental law to be
as imPotent as she he vas in fact as the e.
1860-6l. Would members Of Congress en-
gaged*in the work of disunion Nave been
welcomed at the White House?:*. Would
y. .. CIVIL WAR TIMES.
:. Civil War Times. BY Daniel Walt
Howe: author of: the Puritan Republic,
S,yo: Pr 421: $3.50. Indianapolis: Dobbs
Merrill Co: ,c, ,,
lie war Ol-0 VIII never ceaSe-ai
!; least in the present generation to be a
! perennial and never failing topic of abb
sorbirs interest. This is so, because it
was war of giants; because many OF
| its hair breadth escapes, and the immi-
| nent deadly breach; its long and dread
full marches; its Gettysburg and Chicka-
mn3a at because the finale of that con
| of the world; because its echoes still re-
vertebrate in all the various activities OF
/ American life.
| Because OF these things the authors
! volume is interesting. 1t can be read
! with prof: by any one and many incl
| cents Of the great strife which has hith-
| erto remained unwritten, is brought forth
; by Mr.. Howe.
!. One Of the most Interesting chapters
], In the volume is one dealing with: the re-
. lation, Of the Confederacy toward. the NE
| nearly every important Confederate com
| mander favored the enlistment of black
/ soldiers: that the matter was finally de-
bated in the Confederate Senate. and the
| bin authorizing the enlistment Of Negro
| soldiers, was defeated by but one vote
that of Senator Hunter That when the
desperate circumstances of the Confed-
eracy became SO visible that the leaders
g! saw the doom Of Richmond and the
5 cause draft order was issued to force
:: the black soldier to fight under the Con-
/, federate. flag, but that before it could be
made effective, the fall of Richmond, and
| the flight Of Jefferson Davis was at hand
This chapter is especially interesting at
! under it's banner Is 49, : -
! There are other very Interesting chap
! tiers in the book. The style is clear. unin>
volved and natural. and the author has
| written instructively. 81 ~, -.
f. :. : 49, 80. ,Is.-&$s -. -
: HISTORY OF THE COAIMUNEs OF 1871
History Of the Commune Of 1871
| Translated from the French of Lssagaray
| by Eleanor Marx AVeling, New York
International Publishing Co sg AZ
History of the Commune of 1871"