ese priests what I want to eat."

General Sherman was not a friend to the Catholic Church in the last
years of his life and there is no honor in the attempt to enroll his
name among its devotees now that he is dead and cannot speak for himself.

SECRETARY WINDOM

Funeral services were performed February 2, 1891, at the Church of the
Covenant in Washington in honor of Mr. Windom, late Secretary of the
Treasury. He made a good record, if not a distinguished one. As a
member of the House of Representatives and of the Senate he was noted
for fairness, for freedom from bitterness of opinion upon party
questions, and for good sense in action.

He was indisposed to take responsibility and he went no farther than
the case in hand seemed to require. As the head of the Treasury he was
anxious to gather opinions upon matters of general public interest, and
it was in his nature to strive to accommodate his action to the public
opinion, if he could do so without serious consequences. He worked
within narrow limits, the limits set by business and politics. Of
enemies he had but few--of warm friends but few--the many had confidence
in his integrity in the affairs of government, and in his ability to
guide those affairs in ordinary times.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

In a number of the _Edinburgh Review_ is an article on James Russell
Lowell in which the writer errs widely in two particulars as to the
effect of the "Biglow Papers." The writer's name is not given, but
he is not an American and he is ignorant, probably, of America as it
was from 1830 to 1850. When the "Biglow Papers" appeared, I was a
Democrat, and I am quite sure that the publication produced no effect,
not even the least, upon the opinions of Democrats or the action of
the Democratic Party. Upon my knowledge of the Democratic Party I can
say with confidence that the writer is in error when he says: "He
(Lowell) converted many bigoted Northern Democrats to a course of
action in conflict with their old party relations and apparent
interests."

For this broad statement there is no evidence. The first break came
in 1848 and it was due to rivalries in the Democratic Party. If the
"Biglow Papers" played any part it was too unimportant to produce an
appreciable result. They were treated as a fortunate _jeu d'esprit_
that everybody enjoyed, but the Democratic Party did not change its
policy nor did it lose adherents. The Mexican War was prosecuted
and bigotry p