The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23

slavery, though there were not wanting
outspoken utterances in the Presbyterian,
Baptist and Methodist churches at an
early day, especially in Ohio, Kentucky
and Tennessee" ~ - 9".%
"some years ago one. who had been
conspicuous as a leader in the anti-slav-
cry contest endeavored to show the un-
faithfulness of current history in dealing
with the genesis of modern abilitionism,
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
Lundy or Garrison, but strangely over
looked the claims of another whose career
was ,strikingly like that OF Lundy:-John
Jersey about 1920. Then follows an ac-
count Of his early life and career exceed
ingly interesting and Of his anti-slavery
sentiments. . ,ae about 26 years Of age
sought to arouse the consciences of slave
holders and wrote an essay entitled Con-
sideratfons on the Keeping of Negroes"
which was published, had a 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 Increment" ''The
h Sspsa Of the Nj Tn
coin" and in their discussion exhibits a
wealth of information and breadth of
knowledge. which could only result from
leading men of those stirring times.
Vol. II opens with a 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
real enemies to human progress. When
Mr. Rnch9n9n hrn1ont fare fare
with men resolute in 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
1S60-61. Would members Of Congress en-
Welcomed at the White House? would
! they have bullied him
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