The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-12-31

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"A POLITICAL HISTORY OF SLAVERY.
Il A Political History Of Slavery By Viii
am HfnGy sT Re1 WIN Wo an noums sHo
Net. $3.50. BY MAIL IS. 90. New York:
G. P. Putnam's Sons. ~ Z.
? "A Political History of Slavery by
VIM. Henry Smith, is an elaborated story
Of the controversy over the slavery Ques-
ton, from the early days of the 18th CEN
fury to theN close of the Reconstruction
period in the United States. /. 81 -
There is an Introduction by Whitelaw
Reid, which tells of Mr.. Smiths career
and which gives quite an extended criti-
cism of these two very instructive VOL
umeS. - l,..-4 XII =, s.s.-. 7..~. : 80
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,
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from access to much unpublished infor-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
Of the period, and in. constant personal
communication with some of the actors
Again LAS time" goes on fuller justice
viii be done, in the s history of the move We
bounds of freedom, to communities and
to leading men that relied upon typical
Anglo Saxon means for the correction OF
wrongs, and the better development OF
| Greeley first amons 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 Lncoln.'
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,
and which constitute the basis of our Re
public, refrained from inserting in that
great charter a name so repulSiVe to free
dom. We must conclude that they were
percipient witnesses to the public senti-
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
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
of it's destructive influence became as
impotent 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
third party. The Society of Friends led all
other denominations in the employment
the public prints as to whether VIM.
Lloyd Garrison. Benjamin Lundy or Chas.
slavery, though there were not wanting
outspo1en utterances in the Presbyterian,
Baptist and Methodist cl:;.rches at an
early day, especially in Ohio, Kentucky
;'Some years ago one who had been
conspicuous as leader in the antislav-
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
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
I.undy or Garrison, but strangely over
looked the claims Of another whose career
was ,strkingly like that or 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
sentiments. when about &c years of age
he visited North Carolina, where he
sought to arouse the -consciences Of slave
holders and wrote an essay entitled Con,
After his death in 1772, his journal,
which was published had wide circula-
ton. 1t shows that his life was given to
the work of emancipation. He Travelled
strating and cOunseling.
The author discusses with painstaking
detail the Free Soil Movement,',. 1.-The
Omnibus en- b Sepss of the Nj n
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:
In the history of nations weak rulers are
treated with scant respect. They become
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-
executive head of the government in
1S6O-61. Would members Of Congress en-
Gagged in the work of disunion have been
welcomed at the White House?. Would
CIVIL WAR TIMES.
Civil War Times Z By Daniel Wait
Howe. author of the Puritan Republic.
vo Pp. 421. $1.5O. indianapolis: Dobbs-
Merrill Co. =, T.. =.
The war 8of 'e1-5 will never "cease-at
least in the present generation, to be a
perennial and never failing topic OF alb
sorbing interest. This is so, because it
vas a. war Of e giants: because many OF
it's hair breadth escapes, and the immi-
nent deadly breach'' its long and dread
full marches; its Gettysburg and :Chicka-
crSac, hon <1~ 1~ +1,r~4 1<,k,
fict profoundly influenced the civilizations
of the#world; because its echoes still re-
vertebrate in all the various activities OF
American life. .... II. ~ & p,
Because Of these things the authors
volume is interesting. It can be read
with 6prof: by any one and many Incl
GentSsof the greattstrife 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 Tie Confederate Senate. and the
soldiers, was defeated by but one vote
that of Senator Hunter. That when the
desperate circumstances of the Confed-
saw the doom Of Richmond and the
cause a draft order was issued to force
the black soldier to fight under? the Con-
,I3derate 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 its banner. :s& - e..
There are other very interesting chap
i ters in the book. The style is. clear. unin-
volved and natural, and the author has
written instructively .s5.s !, Z.
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HISTORY OF THE COMMUNE oF1s71.