The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-02-11
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A POLITICAL HISTORY. OF SLAVERY.
A Political History of Slavery. By Will
liam Henry Smith With an Introduction
by Whitelaw Reid. Two volumes. Svo.
Get $4;fo oan1 BY s mall $500 New York:
"A Political History Of Slavery" by
VIM. Henry Smith, is an elaborated story
Of the controversy, over the slavery, ques-
tury 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.
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 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from access to much unpublished infor-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
communication 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
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
Chase and Seward, Stanton and Welles,
first among legislators and cabinet min
listers. and finally to the peer if not the
| most capable politician of the list, Abra-
ham Lincoln
In Chapter l. the author says: IF there
| is one thing clearly established. it is that
| slavery was deprecated by the men who
formed the Constitutions who, recogniz-
| ing that such an institution was inconsis-
J tent with Christian CIVILIZATION inconsis-
erty for Which the colohies 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
percipient witnesses to the public senti-
ment of that day. There was 10 state
free from the faint of slavery and the
feeling that it was injurious to society
was in no sense dependent upon sectional
lines. Its ultimate extinction was gener-
ally confidently expected: emancipation
was to be the rule. This came early north
of Maryland, and it is not unreasonable
bition of the African slave trade, emanci-
patton would have followed in Delaware,
Maryland. North Carolina. Kentucky and
"Opposition to the institution Of slavery
| arose from religious convictions as to it's
sinfulness or from economic and social
policies The resistance of those who
With Mir. Jefferson condemned it because
Of its destructive influence became as
impotent as his. or succumbed to the vio-
lence Of political forces; while that hav-
ing its source in religious feelings played
an important part in the creation Of q
third party. The Society of Friends led all
other denominations in the employment
lloyd Ito Garris o Ben;amin L Mdne or chas
of moral influence for the eradication Of
slavery, though there were not venting
outspoken utteranHes in the P:esbyterian
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
and thereupon controversy Sprang up in
Apostle of Emancipation. Geo. w. Julian,
the writer who challened 1.-The truth of
story clearly established the claims Of
Osborne to be mentioned before either
Lundy or Garrison, but strangely over
looked the claims CT another whose career
was .stril1ingly like that or Lundy-John
yVoolman, 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 2G years of age
sought to arouse the consciences Of slave
holde rs and wrote an essay entitled Con-
siderations on the Keeping of Negroes -
After his death in 1772, his Journal,
ton. 1t shows that his life was given to
the work of emancipation. He Travelled
from colony to colony. preaching remon-
st!ating and cOunSeling.
dc tail the Free Soil Mo:ement.'' 1.-The
Omnibus Bill Repeal of the Missouri
Compromise" The Nomination of Lin
coln:' ana in their discussion exhibits a
wealth Of information and breadth of
Knowledge. which could only result from
many years study and contact with the
lea1ng. men of those stirring times.
Vol. II opens with a chapter on THE
Outbreak Of the War" in which he says:
''ln the history of nations weak rulers are
treated with scant respect They become
the dures of knaves. the instrument of
depression; they imperil governments and
invite disorders to enter in; they are the
real enemies to human progress. When
MI. Buchanan was brought face to face
the Union and overthrow the government,
he construed the fundamental law to be
as i'npotent as he was in fact as the ex-
'cutive. Imagine Andrew Jackson, the
iS6061 Would members of Congress en-
gagged in the work OF disunion have been
welcomed 1t the White House? Would
they have buliied him
CIVIL WAR TINES
Civil War Times. BY Daniel Wait
Howe: author of the Puritan Republic
vo. PIP: 42l. $3.50. Indianapolis: Dobbs-
Merrill Co.
The war of '6l-5 will never cease-at
least in the present generation. to be a
perennial and never failing topic of alb
SorhiES interest. This is so. because it
was war OF giants; because many OF
those giants still survive its vcissitudes;
its hair breadth escapes, and the immi
nent deadly breach; its long and dread
full marches; its Gettysburg and Chicka-
maugas; because the finale of that con-
fict profoundly influenced the civilizations
Of the world; because it's echoes still re-
Vertebrate in all the various activities OF
American life.
Because of these things the authors
volume is interesting. 1t can be read
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
In the volume is one dealing with the re-
gro 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, 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.' 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 it's banner.
There are other very interesting chap