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During the period
" K ANI >
of rcconstructiou
A
from the calamities -
ties of the war which conquered the
South , all democrats , and many conservative
vative men in the North , opposed with
all their might the grant by the power
of arms of equal suffrage to the ox-slave.
All reasonable men saw that it would bo
what it has been amply proven to bo , a
colossal mistake , as a matter of policy ,
and a crime against the country and the
negro himself as well , as a matter of fact.
No sane man doubts the demonstrated
truth about it now. And yet , every man
who then opposed the monstrous device
to perpetuate republican rule over the
subjugated South was proclaimed a
"traitor" and a "rebel. " That big
black chicken long since ' 'came home to
roost , " with the loss to the republican
party of eveiy state in the South , and
much more under a changed public opin
ion in the North which widely execrates
the diabolism that would attempt to
place the Anglo-American white man
under the rule of ignorant negroes.
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DUDM2Y WAKNEIl'S "LIBKAKY
OF THE WOKLD'S 11EST
IITEKATUUK. "
"The project to publish a work that
should enclose within its covers a 'Li
brary of the World's Best Literature , '
was not entirely novel when it was un
dertaken by the 'International Society'
a few years ago. The manner and ex
tent of the achievement , however , have
not a parallel in the making of books
oven in this book making age. In se
lecting Mr. Charles Dudley Warner for
editor of this work the publishers gave
the best possible guaranty that it would
be worthy of its name , and this assur
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inent professors of literature in the uni
versities of America. In two years
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seven hundred pages each. It is not ex
travagant to call this a library ; for it is
one , and its completeness is something
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Editorial , Omaha World-Herald.
"My confidence in books sold on any
thing approaching the subscription pro
cess has been so frequently abused and
I have been fooled so often by some
high-sounding name connected with a
book proposed to be published that I
: \
declined for some time to purchase 'The
Library of the World's Best Literature. "
Meeting my friend Charles Dudley
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voting his time and energies to the sii-
pervision of this great work. Upon his
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Charles F. Manderson , general solicitor
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