The Appeal., 1904-09-24

IA Political History Of Slavery by
VIM. Henry Smith, is an elaborated story
ton. from the early days of the 18th CEN
tl,ry to the close Of the Reconstruction
period in the United States.
There is an Introduction by WhitelaW
Reid, which tells of Mr.. Smiths career
and which gives quite an extended cr1tI-
cism OF, these two very instructive VOL
umes
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from access to much unpublished infor-
nation, in the papers Of President Hayes
and Governor BrOugh in the records OF
the state Office held during a critical part
| Of the period, and in constant personal
| communication with some of the actors" !"
Again: LAS time goes on fuller justice
will be done, in the history! of the move
mentss by which a free people enlarged the
| bounds Of freedom. to communities and
| to leading men that relied upon typical
Anglo-Saxor means for the correction OF
wrongs and the better development of
Anglo-SaXGn Institutions; - to Horace
| Greeley 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 thing clearly established, it is that
slavery was deprecated by the men who
formed the Constitution; who, recognlz-
| ing that such an Institution was inconsiis-
tent with Christian civilization. inconsis-
| tent with the gr~at 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 a name SO repulSlVe to tree
dom We must conclude that they were
percipent witnesses to the public sent1-
ment Of that day. There was no state
| free from the taint of slavery and the
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
to suppose shat 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 it's destructive influence became as
| impotent as his. or succumbed to the vio-
lence Of political forces; while that hav-
ing tsxsource in religious feelings played
an i'm portant part in the creation of a
| third party. The Society of Friends led all
other denominations in the employment
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 cE-srches at an
early day, especially in Ohio, Kentucky
and Tennessee
Some years ago one who had been
conspicuous as a leader in the anti-slav-
eryscOntest endeaVoreG to show the un-
faithfulness of, current history in dealing
with the genesis Of modern abilitionism,
and thereupon a controversy sprang up in
Osborne was entitled to be styled the first
! Apostle of Emancipation. Geo. w. Julian.
| the writer who challened the truth of
| 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
Woolman 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 he Visited North Carolina where he
sought to arouse, the consciences Of slave @
| holders and wrote an essay entitled Con
! siderati on the Keeping of Negroes >.
| After his death in 1772, his journal
which was published. had a wide circula-
the work of emancipation. He Travelled
| from colony to colony, preaching remon-
/ strating and counseling.
The author discusses with painstaking
l
Omnibus Bill" mRepeeal Of the Missour u!
coln.'' and in their discussion exhibits g
of nfGrmatGE ednd amG anfI rxa o
| many years study and contact with the
leading men of those stirring times. <<,,
! Vol. II opens with a chapter on ''The
Outbreak Of the War" in which he says
':In the history ofenations weak rulers arc
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
| real enemies to human progress When
| Mr.. Buchanan was brought face to face
with men resolute III purpose to disrupt
the Union and overthrow the government,
| he construed the fundamental law to be
| as impotent as he was in fact as the ex-
| ecutive. Imagine Andrew Jackson. the
| executive head of the government in
gagged in the work Of disunion have been
welcomed at the White House? Would
they have buliied him
CIVIL WAR TIMES.
Civil War Times. BY Daniel Wait
Howe. author of the Puritan Republic.
8 vo. PIP: 421. $3.50. Indianapolis: Dobbs-
Merrill Co.
The war of 61-5 will never cease-at
saS n 'aG and sns topic Of
sorhing interest. This is so. because 1t
was war of giants; because many OF
those giants Stlu survive 1CS VlclSSltu0eS,
its hair breadth escapes. and the 1mml-
nent deadly breach; its long and dread
full marches; its Gettysburg and Chicka-
maugas; because the finale Of that con-
fict profoundly influenced the civilizations
of the world; because its echoes still re-
vertebrate in all the various activities OF
American life. =,
l. Beca use of these things the authors
volGme is interesting. 1t can be read
with prof: by. any ope and many Incl
dents OF the great strife which has hith
erto remained unwritten, is brought forth
by Mr.. Howe. @st@s
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 iE the Confederate t senate. - and @ the
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
saw the doom of Richmond and the
cause a draft order was issued to force
the black soldier to fight under the Con-
made effective, the fall Of Richmond. and
the fight of Jefferson Davis was at hand
This chapter is especially interesting at
under its banner. f5 % @@45tE
ters in the book. The style is clear. unin-
yolved and natural. and the author has
written instructiyely. tS54
HISTORY OF TIE COMMUNE OF 1871.
History Of the Commune of 1871
Translated from the French of Iissagaray
by Eleanor Marx Aveling, New York.
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