The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-26

a Political History of slavery By vii
liam Henry Smith. With an INTRODUCTION
by Whltelaw Reid. Two volumes. Svo.
Net. $3.50. By mall $500. New York:
G. P. Putnan's Sons.
"A Political History of Slavery" by
VIM: Henry Smith, is an elaborated story
ton, from the early days Of the 18th cen
fury to the close Of the Reconstruction
period in the United States.
There is an introduction by Wh1telaw
Reid, which tells of Mr.. Smiths career
and which gives quite an extended criti-
umes:
MI 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
from access to much unpublished infor-
nation. in the papers of President Hayes
and Governor Brough, in the records OF
the state office neld during critical part
of the period. and in constant personal
comm unication with some of the ACTORS
\Again: LAS time goes on fuller justice
will be DONE in the history OF the move
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, Abra-
ham Lincoln
In Chapter I, the author says: If there
is one thing clearly established, it is that
slavery was deprecated by the men who
inf tina that Such an institution was inconsis-
tent with Christian civilization, inconsis-
tent with the great principles Of civil lib
lo1 1n6
and which constitute the basis of our Re-
public. refrained from inserting in that
great charter name so repulslve TO 1ree-
dom. We must conclude that they were
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
b b 81 the
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
policies. The resistance of those who
with Mr.. jefferson condemned it because
of it's destructive influence became as
lence of political forces; while that hav-
Ing it's source in religious feelings played
an important part in the creation of a
third party. The Society of Friends led all
4 fhe pu Hden Prints ' as to whether VIM
Lloyd Garrison. Benjamin Lundy or Chas.
of moral influence for the eradication Of
slavery, though there were not wanting
outspoken Utterances in the Presbyterian
Baptist and Methodist cE:-rches at an
early day, especially in Ohio, Kentucky
and Tennessee
Some years ago one who had been
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
Osborne 10 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 ac-
count of his early life and career, exceed
ingly interesting and of his anti-slavery
sentiments. When about 2G years Of age
sought to arouse the consciences of slave
holders and wrote an essay entitled Con-
alterations on the Keeping of Negroes "
After his death in 1772, his journal,
ta IT vas thaf nag fa wac
the work of emancipation. He Travelled
from colony to colony. preaching remon-
strating and counseling.
detail the Free Soil Movement" 1.-THE
Omnibus Bill" Repeal of the Missouri
@nd in tncfF Exhibits 6f n
wealth of information and breadth It
knowledge. which could only result from
many years study and contact with the
leading men Of those stirring times
VOL II opens with a chapter on 1.-THE
Outbreak Of the War" in which he says:
IN the history of nations weak a rulers S are
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
the Union and overthrow the eminent,
he construed the fundamental law to be
as impotent as he was in fact as the ex-
ecutive. Imagine Andrew Jackson, the
wo oeId q
gage: in the work OF disun1on have been
welcomed at the White House? Would
they have buliied him
CIVIL WAR TIMES.
1zeWe aHthor Of the Sr1tan an1se
M S9 II, Rp "a AL. $780, indianapolis: Doh As
The war of SIS will never cease-at
least in the present generation. to be a
perennial and never failing topic OF alb,
Soens Of This is s9 sany
those giants still survive it's vicissit6des
it's hair breadth escapes, and the immi-
nent deadly breach: it's long and dread
ful marches; it's Gettysburg and Chicka-
maugas: because the finale of that con-
fict profoundly influenced the civilizations
of the world; because it's echoes :till re.
vertebrate in all the various activities OF
American life.
Because of these things the author $
with prof: by, any one and many Incl
e e. reriained unWritten, is brought forth
by Mr.. Howe. - e.. .---...,. a..
One of the most interesting chapters
in the volume is one dealing with the re-
grc Soldier The author tells us. that
nearly every important Confederate com
mander favored the enlistment of black
soldiers: that the matter was finally de-
bated ir the Confederate Senate. anu the
bill authorizing the enlistment of Negro
f6de1S by Pp oR Wen fe
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
made MADE Il effectfve, the fail Of richmond. and
the flight Of Jefferson Davis was at hand.
This chapter is especially interesting at
under it's banner.
There are other very interesting chap
tiers in the book. The style is clear. unin>
volved and natural, and the author has
written. instructively.
HISTORY OF THE CoMMUNE OF 1871
| History of the Commune Of 1871
Translated from the French Of Lissagaray
by Eleanor Marx Aveling. New York
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