Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1852-12-09

wears anli-slavery parties, literature ana
speeches have never been less current 10
America than al the present time. Garrison
has retired in temporary disgust from
world ,ha, cannot appreciate his extra
vagances. Theodore Parker, with true IN
,utlonal forecast, has relinquished bis old
hobby, and exhibited his canine propensity
by attacking dead lion, the great Webster.
Gerrit Smith threatens TO become practical
in his advanced years, and has accepted
sea, in Congress. Fred Douglass is bldIDg
his time, until the blazing sun Of Mrs. Stoves
fame ceases to darken him with disastrous
eclipse. "The noble brother" is very intent
Jus, now upon the important work OF eman-
cipa,ing himself from his own 'hraldom-
The Tribune is performing the part of Marc
Antony over defunci SeWardlsm. The Ma
tional Era has caugh, vision of practical
tru,h, and AYERS that ''Ihe emancipation OF
slaves is a work exclusively in the hands
of the southern shareholders" With the
exception of the general shout, "Great Is
Diana of the Ephesians," we hear very little
nowadays Of abolition eloquence. The
people have spoken, as no people ever
spoke before, against The further sgila'lon
Of This "vexed question: as an element OF
political strife. The decision Of the second
of November appears 10 have shut down
like an iron shroud upon the paralyzed body
of political abolItionism. Whether 1t Will
again come out of the tomb exceeding fierce
is not in our power to determine. We are,
therefore, in view of this state of affairs, un-
able to discover what auguries beyond the
popularity Of Uncle Toms Cabin delight
the vision Of our pseudo-philan,hropists-
Had not the Rev. Mr.. Thompson informed
US tha, this book had damaged the repula-
lion Of DR.. Parker 10 the amount OF twenty
thousand dollars, we should not have known
it; for the las. number Of the Independent,
of which Mr. Thompson is one Of the edi-
tors, assures us, that instead OF InJurlng the
name Of DR.. Parker, the work had posIllVe-
ly benefited him, as hundreds of men in the
city Of New York would pay more for "a
pew in church where a minister olllclaed
who was understood TO hold sentiments
such as were attributed 10 DR.. P.
We leave the editors of the Independent
to sellle their own differences, while we
proceed TO express some reasons for doubt
ing whether Uncle TOMS Cabin is the most
fit book in the world for ''diflu sing know
ledge of the great leading principles of the
ever-blessed Gospel.o We think it sadly
destitute cf those principles. We agree
with writer in "Dickens's Household
Words" that it is s'full of high power" and
''not free from the fault Of overstraincd con-
ciusions and violen ertremes.o While, with
the thousands who have read it, we are
ready to confess the power of the enchan-
tress; still, when mere sensibilIty gives place
to reason, and in the light Of fact and truth,
we inquire whether this is book OF correct
Christian principles, we are compelled to
noes. 1t is red no, with an inhamatory ZEAL
which may acquire for i. popularity as ic
lion, but is never to be regarded with The
confidence which should be reposed only
in truth. |. was wise saying of Burke
that ':rage and phrenzy will pull down more
in half an hour than prudence, dellberation,
and foresight can build up in a hundred
years." And therefore we should always
guard against receiving with ready acqules-
cence the statements of Incorporate minds
,eeming with violent extremes, whatever
may be the subjects concerning which they
deliver themselves. If the book is calcula-
ted TO leave any deep impression upon the
public mind, we doubt whether it will be
very unfavorable to slavery as an institution;
for like vaul,ng ambition, the glowing mind
of the novelist has over-leaped itself, and in
building up gallery full of fanci(ul exag
geratlons she has undesignedly adduced The
strongest argument We remember to have
seen in favor Of the very system which it is
her purpose 10 assall.
Study the characters on which she has
expended most Of her finest descriptions
Uncle Tom, Aunt Chloe, Geo Harris, Eliza,
are all Of them not only head and shoulders
above their master, but they are above the
best specimens of negro perfection that can
be found IN any Of the free States. Such
characters are not grown on free SOIL
"Search creation round," as the Irish orator
said, and where will you find such paragons
Of excellence as these representative heroes
and heroines are pictured to have been p
We believe the Pope, short as he is said to
have been of funds, would have levied new
Peters pence 10 have purchased these saint
ly rarllles, that their more than common
virtues might have swollen his treasury of
supererogatory merits. If these characters
are fair types, as the writer doubtless intend
ed ,hem 10 be, Of the mass of southern slaves.
we confess that We have abundan, reason
for heartily wishing tha, all Africa were un-
der tuIelage that would develop so much
of Christian symmetry of character. Why
employ missionaries 10 spend their years
amid the malaria of the African continent iC
the southern system of slavery brings out
such rare and beautiful models Of moral ex-
cellence? The exlravagan. exaggeralon of
Mrs Stoves pencil throws disctedi. upon