The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1852-11-24
RAvENNA, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 81 1852.


have been well for yOu to have come and seen me
about this business. cannot consent to stand be-
fore the public as one soliciting it favor from
Mrs. Stowe to set me right before the public. I
wish her to set herself right in respect to what she
has done in relation to l am not impatient.
| allow time. But it is not matter for comprom-
se, as if there were wrong on both sides. do
not wish to affiict Mrs. Stowe, and would not
knowingly consent to her doing anything, on my
account, that would not be, under the circumstan-
ces the very best thing for her character and her
reputation as Christian woman. Had you not
better come on and see me! l have had my full
share of trouble about the business, and in my
earnestness to settle the matter amicably, have
borne much more than my frends thiuk ought to
have done. have no doubt that you and l could
settle the whole affair, by conference Of an hour
two, and quite agree with you that it would be
great shame that we should have any sort of pub
lie conflict in relation TO it, With great respect,
youis, truly, JOEL PARKER.
Rev. C. E. Stowe, D. D.
About this time Dr. Parker had given his YER
sion of this matter to Mr.. Converse, editor of the
Christian Observer, Philadelphia, and in the last
number Of that paper, Oct 2i, 1852, the following
editorial account is given:
.Nrs. Store and DR.. Parker.
Some months since, our attention was called TO
a misrepresentation of DR.. Parker's language and
| sentiments in one of the foot notes of - Uncle
Toms Cabin.' At the same time we were told
that DIR. P. had written to Mrs S., requesting her
to retract the mis-statement. We were also ad-
vised that Mrs. s. was not disposed to make the
correction required-and that DIR. P. put the mat
ter into the hands Of an able counsel for adjust
ment. About the last of June, a correspondence
appeared in some of our exchange papers purport-
ing to be copies of letters between DR.. P. and Mrs
S., amicabIy settling the difficulty. We read the
letters with amazement! We were surprised
that DIR. P. should permit Mrs. S. or any one stc
set' him right before The public " in the style OF
Mrs. SIS letters, that he should ever ask to be
''altoutd' to publish such letter! Meeting witt
DR.. P. shortly after, he assured US, in answer tc
some inquiry, that THESE LETTERS WERE FoRGER
les !! that he neither ,Urote them, nor signed them
euted to their publication and that Mr.
! Beecher had caused them to be published without
his consent
/
we asked. DR.. P. replied, in substance, that the
exposure would be discreditabIe or scandalous tt
the mini=try-and that he wished to avoid any
thing that might be the occasion of reproach to the
ministry or religion. 1t then our intention tt
publish nothing about the matter; but it is nov
spread abroad, we think it due to those concerne
to state the facts contained in this article.
The italics and capitalization are the Christia
Observers.
fessor S;owe, above, he wrote TO my venerable
father, DIR. Lyman Beecher, of Boston /; and th
cool reci'al TO father of his sons agency in
forever stand model.
DR.. Parker TO Dr.. Lyman Beecher.
New York, June 80, 1852.
E Rev. AND DEAR Sir: Your very kind lette
came duly to hand. I delayed responding to il
because hoped in a short time to be able to con
graduate you and myself and all concerned, b
saying that the whole difficulty was settled. But
|, am afraid now it is further off than ever.
The publication of these letters was very ez
traordinary. Still, hope it can be explained.
have written DIR. Stowe fully to day. You wi
probably see the letter.
] have doubt, if could see him or yourse
, one hour the whole affair could be adjusted.
, appreciate all you say of my rights and charac
ter being dear to you. trust you most confident
ly, and do not wish to occasion you a single sen
sation of discomfort. 1 suppose you have tn
letters-the correspondence published iu Th
r Tribune and The Independent. You could no
! OF course have known before hand, that they wer
drawn up by your son, H. w. Beecher, and th'
s they were without my signature, as mere forl
3 OF negotiation TO be revised.
never could have consented to their publict
+ ton, till they were modified How they came
0 be published, l do not know. I hope and tru
that it was not intentional; that it resulted fro
!; some mistake of q third party, to whom they ma
9 have been intrusted for conference with me, ar
n such notifications as Mrs. Stowe and myse
! might mutually consent TO. If so, Mrs. Stow
: ought to know Immediately that no such perse
: ever came to me.
Q have no. doubt that full conference eth
d with yourself or Professor Stowe would set ever
thing right. Yours, sffectionately,
JOEL PARKER.
In this congeries of letters, one 9th
1t of July 81, to the New York Observer, and whit
l. was published in that paper Sept. 80, 1852.
f. DR.. Parker TO .Neto York Observer.
}! New YoRk, joy 81, 1859.
I. My DEAR SIR: On returning from the count
le this afternoon, found your note of the 29,h in
I'd on my table. The correspondence TO which y
at refer, purporting to be correspondence betwe
u. myself and Mrs. H. B. Stowe, was drawn up
b. Rev. ii. w. Beecher as proposed basis of st
Ting the difficulties between myself and M
ID Stowe. That is to say, Mr.. Beecher propos
rd that we should, both Mrs Stowe and myself, ado
e, these letters as ours / agreed 10 have it und
IT adviscment and encouraged the expectation IL
h ,oith some modification, we might settle the whit
matter by some such method. MIR. Beecher to
ny the paper, which Mrs. Stowe had not seen, and
to which neither of US had affixed our signatures, a
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