The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-05-20
r, HISTORY OF SLAVERY.

POLITICAL HISTORY OF SLAVERY.
PGtcs s History % Ct Sa sn BY M
by Whitelaw Reid. Two volumes. syo:
Net. $3.50. Ely mail, $500. New York:
G.. P. Putnam's Sons. H.,
"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
turX to the close Of the Reconstruction
Reid, which tells of Mr.. Smiths career
and which gives quite an extended crlti-
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. ana
from access to much unpublished lnfor-
nation. in the papers Of President Hayes
and Governor Brough. in the records OF
the state office held during critical part
of the period, and in constant persona!
communication with some of the actors
Again: LAS time goes on fuller justice
ments by which free people enlarged the
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
Anglo Saxon 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. Abfa-
ham Lincoln
In Chapter 1, the author says: If there
! is one thing clearly established 1t is that
| slavery was deprecated by the men who
| formed the Constitution; who, recognize
! ing that such an institution was lneonsis-
| tent with Christian civilization, lnconsis-
| tent with the great principles OF civil I'D
! 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 reput5ive to 1ree-
dom. We must conclude that they Were
percpient witnesses to the public Sentl-
! 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. 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. 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 ITS
sinfulness or from economic and social
| policies. The resistance OF those VINO
! with Mr.: Jefferson condemned 1t because
| of it's destructive influence became as
| impotent as his, or succumbed to the VIC
| lence of political forces; while that haV,
! ing it's source in religious feelings played
third t1 party. The Society Of Friends led all
other denominations in the employment
| the public prints as to whether VIM.
Lloyd Garrison, Benjamin Lundy or mas;
! slavery. though there We're not wanting
| ontspoken utterances in the Presbyterian
| Baptist and Methodist churches at an
| early day, especially in Ohio, Kentucky
and Tennessee.
"Some years ago one who had been
| conspicuous as leader in the anti-slav-
cry contest endeavored 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 chalened tn, tru ;n o. o,
! 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, a Friend, who was born in New
| Jersey about 1920. Then follows an &C
count of his early life and career. exceed
ingly interesting and of his anti-slavery
sentiments. when about 26 years of age
! he visited North Carolina where he
sought to arouse the consclences OF slave
holders and wrote an essay entitled Con
siderations on the Keeping of Negroes .
After his death in 1772, his journal
which was published, had wide circula-
ton. 1t shows that his life vas given tc
the work of emancipation He Travelled
| from colony to colony preaching remon-
| strating and counseling.
| The author discusses with palnstaklns
detail the Free Soil Movement, The
Omnibus Bi rb kepea1 of the M Nj m
%sah and "f in tas5s ana
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 arc
| treated with scant respect. They become
| the dupes Of Knaves, the instrument Of
| oppression; they imperil governments anc
! invite disorders to enter in; they are the
r Mr. Bnehanan 20 was hrought 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 ir
186O-G1. Would members of Congress en-
| gagged in the work of disunion have beer
Welcomed at the White House? Would
they have buliied him
| Civil var G1v1 T5m VAR 81 psn5e1 Wall
Howe, author of the Puritan Republic
5 vo PIP. 421. $3.50 Indianapolis: DobDs-
| Merrill Co.
The war of '61-5 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
| was a war of giants; because many OF
! those giants still survive it's vicissitudes;
| it's hair breadth escapes, and the 1mml-
| nent deadly breach; its long and dread
| full marches; it's Gettysburg and Chicka-
maugas; because the finale of that con
| f1ict profoundly Influenced the civilizations
| of the world; because its echoes still re-
| vertebrate in all the various activities OF
| American life.
with profit by any one and many Incl
| dents of the great strife which has hith-
| erto remained unwritten, is brought forth
! by Mr.. Howe.
One Of the most interesting chapters
iatio on of the Confederacy toward the NE
| gro Soldier The author tells u.s. that
| nearly every important Confederate COM
mander favored the enlistment of black
| soldiers: that the matter was finally de-
bated in the Confederate Senate, s3S the
bill 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
saw the doom of Richmond and the
| the black soldier to fight under the Con
fsderate 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. ~..1
There are other very interesting chap
| ters in the book. The style is clear. unin-
| volved and natural, and the author has