The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1852-11-03

10 splendid residences, and have incomes of Que
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Let US be
thankful at least for Mdt.-Bosfon Commonwealth |
Uncle To1rs's Cabin.
For some months past this book has been trayer-
sing England; now it is about to be published in
Germany. Tauchnitz, one of the greatest Ger
man publishers, has permission include it among
his English clussics. Our nation may afford to be
proud of the honor of furnishing such classic for
Europe.
The autboress has prepared the following pre-
face for the edtion-every paragraph of
which will be read with interest
q Ia authorizing the circulation of this book Oh
the continent of Europe, the author has only the
apology that the love of humanity is higher than
the love of country.
A" That great mystery which all Christian ma
tions hold in common-the UNION OF GOD WITH
MAN through The humanity of Jesus Christ, invests
human existence with All awful sacredness, and in
the eye of the true believer in Jesus he who
iramples the rights of his meanest feow-man
is not only inhuman, but sacri!egious and the
worst form of this sactiege is the institution of
siarery.
book are exaggeIations. Would thut this were
true-would tliht this book were indeed fiction,
| and not close wrought mosaic Of fact. But that
it is not fiction, the proofs lie bleeding in thou
sands of hearts-they have beeu attested by re-
spending voices from almost every slave state, and
from slave owners themselves, with express refer
ence TO the representations of this book. Ii more
is wanting, can point the whole civilized world
10 the written published SLAVE CODE OF THE SOUTH
ERH sTATEs-where may be calm, clear,
legal crystalizaton and arrangements Of every enor
nifty and every injustice which despo,ic power can
inhict on the soul and body of n fellow man. Let
any man read the ia,cs, and he will never doubt
the results.
''Snce SO it is, thanks be TO God that this mighty
cry-this wall OF an unuterabe anguish-has at
last been heard
6 1t has been said that the slave population of
America is degraded race, utterly unprepared for
and incapable of freedom and that such characters
as are described in this ,ok are not to be found
among them. Whatever may be true of the pure
African race, it is fact that the majority of the
slave population of America are mixed race, in
whose veins is circulating the blood of their on
pressors, and characters such as that of George
Harris and Eliza are not untrequenty found among
them. Lest the character of Uncle Tom be con-
sidered merely creation, with no type in reality,
the author places beside of it the following descrp-
ton of fivorits sllve from the published will of
Judge Upshur, Ia'e Secretary of State, under the
administration Of President Tyler.
sI hereby emancipats and sat free my servant
David Rice, and direct my executors to give him
one hundred dollars. | recommend him in the
strongest manner to the respect, esteem and conf
dence, of any community in wlc he may happen
to live. He has been my slave for twenty-four
years, during all of which time he has been trusted
TO every extent aud every respect. My confidence
in him has been unbounded; his relations to my
self and family have always been such 10 afford
him daily opportunities to deceive and iniure US,
and yet he has never been detected 10 any serious
fault, not in unilten1i6nal breach Of the
decorum of his station. His ntelIi lence is of d
high order-hs sense of right and .propriety cor
rect, and even refined. I feel that he is Justly
entitled to carry this certificate from me in the
relations which he must now form; it is due to his
long and most faithful services, and 10 the sincere
and steady friendship which bear him in the un-
interrupted and confidential intercourse of twenty
four years. have never given nor had occasion
to give him one unpleasant word. know no man
who has fewer faults more excellencies than
he.'
"Such character, Of course, is not common.
either in fiction or fac; but so much of deggada-
tion obloquy, and of enforced vice has been heap
ed upon the head of the unhappy African, that he
is In justice entitled 10 the very f4rest representa-
tlon which may consist with probability aad fact.
alt is not in utter despair, but in solemn hone
and assurance, that the friends of freedom may
regard the struggle that convulses America
1t is the oucry of the demon of slavery, which
has heard the voice of coming Jesus, and is rend-
ing the noble form from which at last He will bid
it depart.
cit cannot be that SO munstrous a soIecism can
long exist in the bosom of nation which in all
other respects is the best exponent of the princi-
pies of universal brotherhood. II America the
frenchman, the German, the Hungarian, the
owede' the Celt, all mngle>on terms of fruternity
ana equal right. All nations there DISPLAY the r
characteristic excellence, aud nre admitted by her
iioerai laws to equal prvileges-everyth there
Is tending to liberalze, humanize and elevate md
tor that very reason it is, that the contest with
slavery there grows every year more terrible.
Tne stream of human progress, widening, deeuen-
ing from The confuent sources of all nations meet,
u this barrier, behind which is concentrated the TO-
norance, oppression and cruelty of tho dark ages
it roars and foams at its base, but every
year it has been steadily rising, till at last with
rush like Niagara, it will sweep the barrier away
lin its commencement, slavery oyerspreaC
every state in the Union The progress Of socief,
t has already emancipated majority of the stnte
: from lis yoke. In Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia
y and Maryland, at different times, strong move
Il ments have been made for emancipation, move
1T ments enforced by comparison of theprogressiv
march of the free with the poverty and tier