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

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HENRY WARD BEECHER
Henry Ward BeeGher. By Lyman Alb
bott. s1.75: Boston and New York:
Houghton, Miffiin &sCo.
Beecher in 1854, and swas:a close and init
mate friend of his from that time forward.
He attended DR.. Beecher's church in
BROOKLYN, and is thus well qualified to
great preacher. s,e The book is therefore
not SO much history of the life of
Beecher as it is a sketch of his life and
character as he appeared to DR.. Abbott.
The career of Beecher as an anti-slavery
reformer before and during the civil war
period, he tells in five chapters, full of
historical matter of the utmost value. OF
especial Importance is the chapter on Mr..
Beecher's anti-slavery campaign in Eng
| land in 1868. He reached London in the
autumn of that year from season on the
fore sailing for New York. But fate or
dered otherwise. At that time the SYM
pathy of the English people,. more espe-
cially the aristocratic and moneyed class
South, and the man who dared to speak
in behalf of the American cause was
sure to invite every species of insult and
indignity." This sympathy for the South
of Mr.. Beecher's arrival, assumed alarm
ing proportions, and rumors were af1oat
to the effect that the British government,
il! all probability would be forced by pub pub
then going forward in America In behalf
of the South. Such was the state of feel
ing when DR.. Beecher reached England.
The Americans residing in London were,
of course, greatly alarmed over such a
prospect, and after much trouble, per-
suaded DR.. Beecher to make a lecturing
tour through England, speaking in behalf
of the Federal cause. BY this they hoped
to counterfeit the work Of agents of the
Confereracy who We're then seduously fan
ming the flame of British enmity by their
speeches and publications. Any other man
would have weakened, but having prom
ised his friends to prosecute the campaign
he stuck to it courageouay in spite of
mobs, blood-red placards, insults, boot
the British public consider perfectly legit-
innate to prevent an unpopular speaker
from being heard.
- TWO ON THEIR TRAVELS. \
1.-TWO on Their Travels" by Ethel Col
1.-TWO on Their Travels" by Ethel Col
quhoun, with Photographic illustrations
by the writer is very interesting boo6
The writer describes the out-of -the-wa!
places which she visited with a style en-
tirely natural, and yet which exhibits a
style Of treatment quite unique. In the
chapter called "A voyage Of misery and
a happy ending she writes: eff the food
was bad the drink was worse. The univer-
sal male demand for whiskey led to the
full label and the statement Used in the
Houses of Parliament " The commercial
traveller tasted it,, put down his glass and
pug naa at the LABEL bel Then a.
slew Glasgow i accent: ' "Whaur-r did ' ye
find yon bottle?' The delicate Scots
irony was, fear entirely lost. It was the
same com, commercial traveler who; a few
share rather less poisonous drink un
no. he replied: "Aw'm thinkin' awe
related how, feeling thirsty in the mid
die of the night he had got up and drunk
what he believed to be about half bot
tie Of water In the re-, morning he discovered
tie empty! Il THOUGHT it was vary guild
The writer describes in a very interest
ths aesne STRAITS ana
Japan, China, and other countries In the
East. .f.- ii
The Illustrations are. many of them in
cOlors and are very elaborate.
A POLITICAL HISTORY OF SLAVERY.
A Political History of Slavery. BY Will
liam Henry Smith. With an Introduction
by Whitelaw Reid. Two volumes. syo
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G. P. Putnam's Sons.
"A Political History of Slavery" by
VIM. Henry Smith, is an elaborated story
Of the the
fury 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 criti-
cism Of these two very instructive vol
umes.
I 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: q 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
cOmmunica ton with some OF the actors
Again LAS 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
lo-ss 3a institutions; Ito to- Horace
chase and Seward, Stanton and Weiles,
first among legislators and cabinet min
isters and finally to the peer, if not the
superior of thens all, and certainly the
idool CapdCle pollllC1dA VI IAAe AAoe' <AoA a
ham Lincoln"
In Chapter I, the author says: IF there
is one thing clearly established, it is that
slavery vas deprecated by the men who
formed the Constitutions; who, recognize
ing that such an Institution was inconsis-
tent with Christian civilization. lnconsis-
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 name so repulsive to free-
dom. We must conclude that they were
rercipient witnesses to the public Sentl-
rent 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. It's 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, enamel
patton would have followed in Delaware,
Maryland, North Carolina, Kentucky and
Tennessee" - , -.-'' 49,.
Opposition to the institution of slavery
arose from religious convictions as to its
sinfulness or from economic and social
policies. The resistance of those who
with Mr.. Jefferson condemned 1t because
of it's destructive influence became as
impotent as his or succumbed to the vlO-
lence Of political forces; while that hay
ing it's source in religious feelings played
an important part in the creation of
third party. The Society of Friends led all
other denominations in the employment