The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-01-02
'MARsE HENRY COLONEL
WATERSONS LIFE STORY

Colonel Henry Watterson, for mary.
many years editor of the Louisville
Courier Journal, has at last complet.
ed the story of his life.
It ran seriaily under the caption OF
Looking Backward" in the SATURDAY
Evening Post and other publications,
but is now printed in book form by
the George H. Doran Company.
Henry Watterson was born in the
city of Washington, February 1s,
1910, so he win complete his SOth year
next February.
8 AS Colonel Watterson is now and
has for a number of years been spend.
ing his winters in Florida, he is part
Aly Floridian, and his book ought
to be particularly interesting to Flor.
idians.
His father was a congressman and
the son was a page in the house OF
representatives, and early took to pol
itics, and his zest for 1t continued
with him all through life.
He has been a delegate to and
president OF national conventions, but
has registered holding Offices of em.
Nments.
/e has been intimately acquainted
B nearly all the leading public men
the nation and was the warm per-
Mkal friend of number of them, so
his book will be notable contribution
~ the most important history of our
country. and sheds light upon many of
the political controversies that have
national affairs.
A keen and trenchant writer, an om-
niverous reader, tolerant and close
observer, his book will be most valua-
BILE to the students of history.
The following quotations will give a
fairly good insight as to the supreme
value of this book
Slavery
1T is truth to say that / cannot re-
call the time when / was not passion
ately opposed to slavery, a. crank on
the subject of personal liberty, If
am crank about anything"
War Between the States
Later Colonel Watterson says:
whether the war of sections-as 1t
should be called, because. except in
eastern Tennessee and in three of the
border states. Maryland, Kentucky
and Missouri, it was nowise civil war
could have been averted must
eyer remain a question of useless
speculation. In reorganizing the insti
tuition of African slavery, with no pro-
vision for its ultimate removal, the
Federal Union set out embodying the
seeds of certain trouble. The wiser
heads of the constitutional convea-
ton perceived this plainly enough
The confederacy
Mr. Slidell told me in Paris that
! lis Napoleon had once said to him
NJ %6swer to his urgency for the re-
N I|1|ion of the Southern Confeder-
] have talked the matter over
Lord Palmerston and we are
~ Rf the opinion that as long as
slavery exists at the South,
and England cannot recognize
Dnfederav. AS matters stand we
net go before European con
Eress with such proposition"
And again The men who be-
tween 1850 and 1851 might have
saved the Union and averted the War
Of Sections we're on either side pro-
fessional politicians, with mere and
there an unselfish, far-seeing, patrl-
otto man, whose admonitions " ere not
needed by the people ranging on op-
posing sides of party lines. Two aost
potential Of the party leaders were
Mr.. Davis and Mr.. Seward. The
South might have seen and known
that the one hope Of the institution
Of slavery lay in the hope Of the IN
situation Of slavery lay in the Union.
Hoxever it ended; disunion led to ABB
clifton. The world the whole trend
~ modern thought was set against
slavery. But politics, based on party
feeling, is game Of blindman's bun.
And then here show myself 9 son
of Scotland there IS destiny.