CONTENTS

NUMBER 1-JANUARY 1908

The History and Principles of the Democratic Party of the

Territory of Iowa

LOUIS PELZER

The History of Liquor Legislation in Iowa 1846-1861

3

DAN ELBERT CLARK

An Early Fugitive Slave Case West of the Mississippi River

JOHN C. PARISH

The Color Bearer of the Twelfth Iowa Volunteer Infantry

55

88

J. W. RICH

96

103

Some Publications

GREGORY-Samuel Freeman Miller (p. 103) H. M. TOWNER

WARE-The Lyon Campaign in Missouri (p. 106) E. H. DowNEY

ABERNETHY—A History of Iowa Baptist Schools (p. 107)

The History and Principles of the Democratic Party of Iowa

1846-1857

LOUIS PELZER 163

The Autobiography of John Chambers. Edited with an Intro-

duction

189081

JOHN C. PARISH 247

Some Publications

JONES-Reminiscences of the Twenty-second Iowa Volun-

FORDHAM-Personal Narrative of Travels in Virginia,

Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky,

and of a residence in Illinois Territory 1817-1818

F. H. GARVER

(p. 292)

PARRISH-The Great Plains. The Romance of Western

American Exploration, Warfare, and Settlement

1527-1870 (p 295)
JOHN C. PARISH

Americana-General and Miscellaneous

Iowana

Historical Societies

Notes and Comment

Contributors

Western

287

297

304

307

313

331

335

JOHN C. PARISH

Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin

at its Fifty-fifth Annual Meeting held November

DAN ELBERT CLARK

7, 1907 (p. 457)

ABERNETHY-Dedication of Monuments Erected by the

State of Iowa (p. 458)

THWAITES-KELLOGG-The Revolution on the Upper Ohio,

1775-1777. Compiled from the Draper Manuscripts

in the Library of the Wisconsin Historical Society

(p. 460)

E. H. DOWNEY

THE IOWA JOURNAL OF HISTORY AND POLITICS

JANUARY NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHT

VOL. VI-1

VOLUME SIX NUMBER ONE