The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-01-21

A POLITICAL HISTORY, OF SLAVERY.
A Political History of Slavery. Byt Will
liam Henry Smith. With an Introduction
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G. P. Putnam's Sons.
"a Political History of Slavery" by
VIM. Henry Smith, is an elaborated story
Of the controversy over the slavery ques-
fury to the close of the Reconstruction
period in the United States. s
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.
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
from access to much unpublished lnfor-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 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
I ments by which a 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, Abra-
| ham Lincoln"
| In Chapter 1, the author says: IF there
| is one thing clearly tablished it is that
slavery was deprecated by the men who
formed the Constitution; who, recognize
J ing that such an institution was inconss-
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-
| great charter 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
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-
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 who
with Mr.. Jefferson condemned it because
of it's destructive influence became as
impotent as his. or succum1bed to the vio-
lence of political forces; while that hay
ing it's source in religious feelings played
third party The Society of Friends led ali
other denominations in the employment
the public prints as to whether VIM.
Lloyd Garrison, Benz am in Lundy or Chas $:
slavery, though there were not wanting
outspoken utterances in the Presbyterian
Baptist Ip3 and Methodist ch ; at an
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 controversy sprang up in
Osborne was entitled to be styled the first
the writer who challened 1.-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 strihingly like that or Lundy-John
Woolman, Friend, who Was born in New
Jersey about 1920. Then follows an ac-
ingly interesting and Of his anti-slavery
| sentiments. when about 26 years of age
he visited North Carolina, where he
holders. and wrote an essay entitled Con
siderations on the Keeping of Negroes -
which was published, had a wide circula-
I
| the work Of emancipation. He Travelled
from colony to colony. preaching remon-
stIating and counseling.
The author discusses with painStaking
detail the Free Soil Morement,' 1.-THE
Omnibus Bill Repeal of the Missouri
Compromise The Nomination of Lin
| 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 wit 11ooro fot IN
! Outbreak Of the War in which he says:
TN 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 1mpotent as he was in fact as the ex-
ecutlve Imagine Andrew Jackson, the
lS6O-G1: Would members of Congress en-
gaged in the work of disuniOn have been
| welcomed IT the White House? Would
they have buliied him
CIVIL WAR TINES.
Civil War Times. BY Daniel Walt
| Howe. author Of the Puritan Republic.
s vo. PIP: AL. $3.50. Indianapolis: Dobbs-
The war of '61-5 will never cease-at
least in the present generation. to be a
f9serenl.;1l and never failing topic OF alb
, sorbins interest. This is so. because it
was a war of giants: because many OF
those giants still survive its vicissitudes;
it's hair breadth escapes, and the immi-
| nent deadly breach: it's long and dread
] ful marches: its Gettysburg and Chicka-
! maugas: because the finale of that con-
| Hict profoundly influenced the civilizations
| Of the world; because it's echoes still re-
..erberate IN all the various activities OF
| American life.
Because OF these things the authors
| volume il; interesting. It can be read
i with prof. 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
| In the volume is one dealing with the re-
! lation of the Confederacy toward the me
| 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 ir the Confederate Senate and 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
cause a draft order was issued to force
the black soldier to fight under the Con-
federate 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