The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-05-06

A POLITICAL HISTORY OF SLAVERY.
Political History Of Slavery: By y WI III,
Net $3.50 BY mail, $500. New York:
G. F. Putnams Sons.
VIM. Henry Smith, is an elaborated story
Of the controversy over the slavery ques-
ton, from the early days of the 18th CEN
fury to the close Of the Reconstruction
period in the United States. -...g
There is an introduction by Whitelaw
Reid, which tells of Mr.. ~Smith's career
and which gives quite an extended criti-
cism of these two very instructive vol
umes. s.,- 49,
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from access to much unpublished infor-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
Of the period, and in constant personal
communication with some of the actors"
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
Greeley first among public educators. to
OndSe anu seward. stanton ana w eleS
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: "1f there
is one thing clearly established, it is that
slavery was deprecated by the men who
formed the Constitutions; who, recognize
ing that such an institution was inconsis-
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-
public. refrained from inserting in that
great charter a 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
lines. Its ultimate extinction was gener-
ally confidently expected: emancipation
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
"Opposition to the institution of slavery
arose from religious convictions as to it's
sinfulness or from economic and social
with Mr. jefferson condemned it because
of it's destructive influence became as
impotent as his, or succunlbed to the vio-
lence of political forces; while that hav
ing its source in religious feelings played
an important part in the creation of a
third party The Society," of Friends led all
other denominations in the employment
the public prints as to whether VIM
of moral influence for the eradication of
slavery. though there were not wanting
outspoken utterances in the Presbyterian
Baptist and Methodist churches at an
norlN in in x
and Tennessee
Some years ago one who had been
conspicuous as a leader in the anti-slav-
cry contest endeavored to show the I'M
fathfulness 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
Apostle of Emancipation. Geo. w. Julian,
the writer who challened 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 -strikingly like that OF Lundy-John
Woolman, a 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
sought to arouse the consciences 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 a wide circula-
ton. 1t shows that his life was given to
the work of emancipation. He Travelled
from colony to colony. ching renon-
strating and counseling.
The author discusses with painstaking
detail the Free Soil Movement 1.-THE
Omnibus Bill" Repeal Of the Missouri
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 II opens with a chapter on 1.-THE
Outbreak of the War" in which he says:
In the history of nations weak rulers are
treated with scant respect. They become
the dupes of Knaves. the instrument of
oppression; they imperil governments and
invite disorders to enter in; they are the
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 impOtent as he was in fact as the ex-
ecutive. Imagine Andrew Jackson, the
executive head Of the government in
lS60-61. Would members of Congress en-
gagged in the work of disunon have been
welcomed at the White House? Would
they have buliied him
CIVIL WAR TIMES
Civil War Times. BY Daniel Walt
Howe. author of the Puritan Republic.
8 vo. PIP: 421. $3.50. Indianapolis: Dobbs-
Merrill Co.
The war of '61-5 will never cease-at
least in the. present generation, to be
perennial and never failing topic of alb
SOrhirS interest This is So because it