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and the West Indies included. He was
 wont to give rein to his keenest sar- casm in discussing the fate of the Amer ican negro. He wrote: Tt is true, that even in those states of the union that have abolished slavery the free blacks are still regarded with disgust and con- tempt. The most benevolent inhabitants of New England and New York conceive that liberty itself will scarcely be bless
 ing to the African unless measures be taken for removing him to some country where he may not be reminded of his ln- feriority by daily insults and privations. . At the very moment when the fourteenth amendment was sent to Alabama for ratification the constitution of Indiana forbade a negro to enter the pounds or that commonwealth. The state of Wis consin was hardly less emphatic In legal prescription of tine negro. A few weeks before the amendment appeared on the floor of Congress President Johnson in his first annual message, referring to his omission to confer the right to vote upon
 the freedmen of the conquered states, ex- plained that he could not extend the suf- frage to negroes of the south, because they were negroes, without taking into the electorate the negroes of the norrh because they were negroes; and to effect such a policy he must override the con- stitution and the laws of many of the states of the north. Using the language of the message Moreover, a concession of the elective franchise to the freedmen by act of the President of the United States must have been extended to all colored men, wherever found, and so must
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mand the most anxious care of states men.
 The amendment consists of five ses- lions: d) to create the status of citizens of the United States; @ to compel tho several states to admit the negro to the electorate and failing, to pay a prescribed penalty; (3) to disfranchise the leadees of the south, subject to the clemency of Congress; (D to confscate the debt oe the Confederacy, to prevent payment for manumitted slaves of the south. and to perpetuate the debt of the United States; (5) to invest Congress with power to leg isate it's own construction upon the sev- eral foregoing sections; bestow upon each and all appropriate legislation"
 So learned Q publicist as Hannis Taylor says the main object of the amendment was to give the suffrage to the negro think a reasonably attentive reading Of the debate in Congress- which preceded the framing of the article, extending as it did over many months, will show that rtne citizenship and suffrage clauses were hopelessly voted down and practically abandoned when a representative of the holders of the public debt came forward with an amendment, section 4. lmme- diately a coalition was formed between the faction favoring negro political equ94- ity and the faction representing the bond holders and the article, as whole, was prepared and passed. (See Congressional Globe, 1365-1S66.)
 The historian Macaulay was a devoted follower of Wilberforce and an advanced advocate of the social and political equal ity of all races, the negro of the south
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have established change of suffrage in the northern, middle and western states no less than in the southern and south western"
 The northen states were not ready for the political or social equality of the ne- gro, when the radicals brought into Con- eress in the first session after the war, the citizenship and suffrage provisos of the fourteenth amendment "The swelling act of the imperial theme" was in im- minent jeopardy. The citizenship and suffrage provisos were rejected by Con- gress A hiatus in the proceedings 'n- tervened In the progress of the debate Senator Fessenden from Maine said, re- ferring to those provisos, as they must be summitted to the states: ''If we re- rort a provision of this kind, Is there the slightest probability that 1t will be adopted by the states? It is perfectly ev- ident that there could be no hope of that description"
 Now. President Johnson had expressed an opinion, that the payment of the war debt of the United States. on its face, would be an unrighteous tax. The gov ernment had received only $40 for S100 of debt in many instances. Moreover, the money actually received was often paper s.t a serious discount. The views of the President intensely excited the people or the commercial centers. In three weeks from the time of the rejection Of the cit izenship and suffrage provisos Senator Wilson of Massachusetts reported an amendment which substantially became section 4 of the article as we now have
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it. The effect of section Is to perpetu- ate the debt of the United States then ex- isting or which may be incurred In the future. Upon this debt a financial and monetary system Is now founded, whicn practically removes commerce from de- pendence upon the laws and principles of trusts removes commence from de- rendence solely upon the intelligence, en- terprise and tact of manufacturers, car riers and merchants, to dependence upon the national debt. Whoever owns now taxable, interest bearing government bonds may set up bank of issue and es- tabllsh a trust by use of his own bank currency ad libitum.
 Speaking to his public debt amendment' now section 4, Senator Wilson said: ''The holders of the public securities, the pos sessors of the currency founded on the public faith, the scared soldiers of the republic and the heirs of fallen heroes are hardly ready to entrust their inner itance, be that inheritance ever so small, to the men who have lost $2,O0O, 100000 h. vested in snews of a race emanc1pats1 by the national authority and the hold- CTS of thousands of millions of Confed- crate bonds and obligations"
 Therefore the trade. The state constf- tutlons of the north, denying political equality to the negro, must be made 70 conform to the first and second sections of the fourteenth amendment in order that the public debt might be made secure against southern influence in the government The "thousands of millions of Confederate bonds and obligations
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5R REVOLUTIONARY John Wtherspoon |

must be conhscated in order that the in dustry of the south might give value and security to>.he debt of the United States, unfettered by Confederate debts.
 It is as easy to prove as it is to read, that the entire structure of society and state government at the north was vehe- mently opposed to the citizenship and suffrage provisos of the fourteenth amendment when offered to Congress. It Is plain, on the face of the page, that Senator Wilson's public debt proviso saved the others and fastened the com- pleted article upon the land.
 For more than a century before the constitution of 17s7 the right to fix the qualification of electors was local right in all America. The colony of South Carolina denied to the Euguenots the privilege of the electorate because they were Huguenots The colony of Rhode Island established arbitrary qualifica- tions. Men now living remember the reforms the state of Virginia made in the electorate to bring it to the democratic standard of today.
 When the convention of 17S7 came to consider federal electorate, the sub feet was abandoned. In lieu thereof, the citizen of a state was secured tho full en- 1oyment of the laws of any state where he might be for the time. Federal courts were made to protect the interests of cit .zens in every state. In truth, there was no original and native demand for the citizenship prowiso of the fourteenth amendment
 The suffrage of the article Is extremely
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of Genesis represents him to be-the fa- ther of the Hebrew race.
 Again, in the goth chapter and 7th verse of the book of Genesis, God Himself is reported as saying of Abraham: "de is a prophet"
 Further: If Abraham's religious expe- rience is to be counted as unhistorieal, the fine argument which Paul makes in the Epistle to the Romans utterly breaks down and falls to pieces The 4th chap ter of the Epistle is one of the most im- portant links in the chain of reasoning by which the Apostle establishes the great doctrine of classification by Faith ' In the 1st verse of that chapter, in arga- ing from Abraham's religious experience, he asks:~ What shall we say then that Abraham our father as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?" In the End verse he argues that Abraham could not have been justified on the ground of his per sonal merits. In the 2rd verse, quoting from the history in Genesis, he tells US that Abraham believed God and 1t was counted unto him for righteousness In
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the Epistle to the Galatians, 3rd chap ter, 9th verse the Apostle gives us tho same quotation, to prove the same thesis. The passage which he quotes is found in the history of Abraham, as given in the book Of Genesis. (see 18th chapter, 9th verss.)
 Now, the Apostles argument is that, so far as justification is concerned, the ex- perience of Abraham Is substantially the experience of every believer. Paul is not presenting Abraham to us as theolo- gian, but as a believer What would hls argument be worth if no such person as Abraham ever existed?
 In Romans, 4th chapter, verses 16-24. we have Paurs argument for the doc Urine of imputed righteousness" and again he goes back to Genesis. and shows that, in the case of Abraham, imputed righteousness was historical fact: "He (Abraham) staggered not at the promise of God through unbellef; but was strong in faith. giving glory to God, and being fully persuaded that what He had prom ised He was able also to perform. And
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nRESIDENT ANDEw JOHNSON
 sent special message to Congress. A under date July 22. 1866. warning that body, or rather the fraction of it Tn session, composed of northern members only, that the document just submitted to the states as the fourteenth article of amendment, was against 'the spirit and the letter. of the constitution then in fierce.
 Two years later, Secretary of State William H. Seward, addressed a commit nication to Congress saying this same document had been returned to his of- fee illegally ratified. Documentary His tory Constitution U. S.,~Nol. 9
 We are told now that the fourteenth amendment if executed will reduce the representation of Alabama in Ithe Con- gress from nine members to five; will re- duce the electors for president and vice president from Il to seven.
 Charles Fox said Ignorance in a statesman Is crime" The history of the fourteenth amendment in It's conception and passage through Congress, or the northern fraction of the body, in It's eX- perience in the state legislatures, con- testing for legal ratification, abounds in incidents of fierce revolution. The long record of surprises to counsel, disappoint- ment to clients and nearly even divisions of the supreme court in final decrees in volving the amendment, indicate tue presence of phenomena in the genesis of the article itself which must now com
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think at all. True, the record in Genesis gives him credit for sense enough so give names to all the lower animals which were created before him; but then this evidence is easily >discredited by rel egating the early, chapters of Genesis to the realm of 'legend," myth and "allegory." So we need not trouble our selves with questionsas to how and what Adam thought, since the very existence of Adam is more than doubtful.
 Now, in the light of these statements, let us look at what must have been tho facts in the life and experience of Abra- ham. We are called upon to believe that a Chaldean shepherd. reared in he midst of heathenish idolatry, living near ly all his life in a tent, having almost nothing of what we call culture, with out agriculture, manufactures, com merce, science or art "developed' q splendid type of monotheism out of the social environment of that agei l do not forget that the Chaldeans, as a peo- pie, had considerable social culture; but in the life of the individual man, Abra-
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STORY WON THE PRIZE.
The Chicago Editor Who Has Just
 Died Surprised His Associates.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
 MT. Sl1iddings Pilots the onadeka squaws, the story which won the slooO prize in Golfers Weekly last summer. brought L. H. Bickford national popular ity and established his vogue as writer of sparkling, bubblng. rolliotins humor.
 How MT. Bickford came to write the story and the adventures of the story after it was written form an interesting literary episode. The Sunday 1nter Ocean was about to go to press one week, when the Sunday editor discovered there was a big 'hole" to be filled on the first page.
 .'I'u dash you of first page story. said MT. Bickford.
 He sat down at his typewriter an wrote for half an hour.
 "see how you like this" he said, pass ing over three pages of his story.
 'sThis your idea of a first page story commented the Sunday editor with h,' rnorous severity. Wont do for the In ter Ocean,"
 "All right said MT. Bickford. '1'. send 1t to Munsey's."
 .'You'Il get 1t back promptly" returnet. the Sunday editor.
 The Sunday editors prophecy came true The story was sent to Munsey s and came back promptly. Then 1t was gent. to the Saturday Evening Post Again it came back. Its third journey was to Golfers. This time a check fo, $500 was the result. In a few weeks the editors of Golfers sent the story to MT, Bickford and asked him to shorten it that 1t might be entered in the prize story contest. In Its revised and abbre- viated form the story went on to it N,0o0 triumph.
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understandable. The constitution un- amended secured with utmost emphasis the right of free negroes to apportion- ment for representation in the federal government This was an inestimabls blessing to the freedmen of the south. They composed Tn the early years after the war the sole wage earners of this section. They were large consumers. lib- eral patrons of all kinds of commerce, employers of physicians and lawyers, passengers paying fare on public car riages, etc.. etc. The original federal boon Is taken away by the fourteenth amendment. State control of appoint ment for federal representation Is par adox. If the Crumpacker- Keller scheme takes effect the negro coal miners of Ala bama, the negro furnace men. the negro iron mill men will not have Mir. Under wood in Congress. He will be lefrout. Ths district will be enlarged to include a DOT ton of MT. Craig's district, another DOT tion from Captain Hobsons district and district shall be represented in the gov ernment of the union.
 The great ancient philosopher declared, politics Is the foremost of all sciences upon which all science depends. To take away the rule of federal apportionment, for representation in the federal govern ment. and bestow 1t upon Alabama for instance, is far beneath the science of politics. This enormity is exactly what the suffrage proviso of the fourteenth amendment allows MT. Crumpacker to perpetrate on the country.
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ous fault, but she could only mutter some obvious commonplaces by the way of re- ply
 You know" continued Miss Dupree oheerfully, "Ill be well enough to go on again Monday night, and when l see MT. Meyer I'll put in good word for you. They say your dancing Is elegant. You ought to have something better than the chorus"
 And then she told Annie of her own ca- Ieer. of her own obscure beginnings. of her own early home on the East Side-of her days in the chorus, her ambitions. her
 failures her heartaches, her ultimate success. It was a story wonderfully like Annie s-indeed the mlnuteness of the re-
 semblance fairly startled her. 1t was story that had been duplicated over and over again in the life of many a girl of the chorus. who by persistence, ability, sensible living and the final arrival of the lucky opportunity had at last arisen from obscurity to prominence. ir Annie's visit was not a long one, noI
 was 1t one to make her happy. But 1t
 strengthened her in great, bitter, a henrtbreaking. determination. She had made up her mind.
 For that night. after the performance
 still wearing the now familiar costume of a bandit leader, she again sought an in-
 terview with the stage manager. There
 were tears in her eyes and desperate
 choking in her voice that she struggled
 hard to conquer. Yet she whs collected
 and gravely inslstent, while Meyer argu-
 mentative, protesting, raging and petu-
 lant, pumping wildly with his arms,
 swore and ranted about the stage, as was bis weakness
 All Is grist, however. that comes to the
 mill of the press agent. And on the fol- lowing Saturday there were sent to all the morning newspapers, for publication
 cn Sunday, manifold typewriter notices,
 which duly appeared as follows: ""The Land of Nonsense' continues it's
 career of uninterrupted prosperity at the Metropolis theatre, and will reach It's one
 hundred representation on next Tuesday night, on which occasion handsome souvenir will be presented to each lady attending the performance. The many friends of Miss B'lossie Dupree will be pleased to her that she Is sufficiently re- | covered to resume her role as Felippa, the l female bandit leader, in which character she had scored one of the biggest hits Of the season. Miss Dorothy Darrell, who | undertook Miss Dupree's part during the latter's absence, and whose work has | been quite satisfactory, will resume her ! former place in the chorus, which. by the
 way, Is said to be one of the handsomest
 and most capable in the business"
 well, by gumr' said MT Stevens. comedian, after he had read this notice, and was talking 1t over with another member of the company, T thought Abe Meyer knew a good thing when he found it. It looks to me like case of throwing 1 away good money. But maybe" he add 1 ed. on careful reflection-"maybe Flossie' s ! got pull
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therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Now. it was not written for his sake alone. that 1t was Imputed to him: but for Us also, to whom 1t shall be imputed if we believe on Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead"
 The historical method of interpretation will not allow us to conclude that Abia- ham was a trained Pauline theologian. and that he held, and understood what theologians now call the doctrine of i'm puted righteousness. That doctrine was not formulated by Abraham. and there is not the least reason for believing that it ever entered his head. Hundreds of years after Abraham's death. Paul ar gued 1t out of Abraham's religious expe- rience.
 If Abraham vanishes into a myth, then the arguments of Jesus and of Paul van- ish with him; for an argument which s based upon the religious experience of one who never lived is logically worth less. Can We wonder that the destrue- tive critics have little relish for what our fathers used to call the doctrines of grace?"
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facts that Jesus Christ repeatedly treats Abraham as a historical person, and arr gues from his religious experience In the sth chapter of the gospel by John. and 37th verse, Jesus is reported as say
 ing to the Jews: q know that ye are Abrahams seed; but ye seek to kill me. because my word hath no place in you" In verses 39th and 10th of the same chap ter, He says: If ye were Abrahan's 5 children, ye would do the works of Abra
 ham. But now ye seek to kill me, q man that hath told you the truth, which l have heard of God this did not Abra- ham," In the 56th verse of the same chapter. He says: Your father Abra- ham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw 1t and was glad;'' and in the 5Sth verse He closes the discussion with the solemn words. "Verily, verify I say unto yoa, before Abraham was, I am" It is jug gling with words to say that Jesus Christ used language like this in speaking of 8 mythical or of a legendary character. It is perfectly manifest that He meant to assert that Abraham was what the book
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ham, with whom we are here dealing, the traces of such culture are scant in
 deed. A man. who owned probably 15oO slaves, and yet, when company came, put his wife to baking hoe-calxes on hot stone. could hardly have been in other thar very primitive state of society.
 How did such a man develop a higher, clearer, purer idea of God than Plato, with all his genius and culture ever dreamed of? In and by what state of so- ciety was his religion developed? These are questions which can be answer ad only in one way; and that way the ex
 agencies of their theory have compelled the radical critics to take: Abrahams 8 life and religious experience are "unhis- torical;" that is to say, no such person as the Abraham of Genesis ever lived! And this Is the conclusion to which the "extreme left" of the higher critics are inevitably driven by the stern logic of the situation: for R their principles are sound, then the Abraham of Genesis be- comes impossible. And 1t must be noted. too, that all this is in the face of the
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nN HE first sentence in Prof c. H.
 Toys book on Judaism and ChrIs- A tianity'' is not only strikingly sig nificant, but highly characteristic. In- deed, it strikes the keynote of the whole harmed treatise. It reads as follows: 'The rise of Christianity out of Juda- ism is a fact which, though of enormous significance, is yet in conformity with well-defined law of human progress"
 On the first page the scholarly author says: Religion must be treated as d product of human thought. And as human thought is developed only in and through society, religion Qike lan- guage and ethics) may be regarded as a branch of sociology, subject to all the laws that control human progress"
 These sentences manifest the trend of the thinking now fashionable among tho school of advanced critics"
 Now. if human thought is developed only in and through society, what are we to think of the mental condition of Adam before Eve was created? He was not in society" and therefore he could not