Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-06-04
Kenosha, June 8, 1852.
mrs. Harriet Eseechcr stowe, on

MRS. Harriet FReechcr stowe, on * OsstItFi.
The New York Observer, and other Journal
lists protesting to be religious, having INDUCED
their bad passions in the most bitter dcnunca-
tons on Kossub, particularly of late on his "tav-
ern bills" Mrs. Stowe replies to the Observer
in the following strain:
Now in the name of all that is noble and hon.
orable, all that is good and just, let us look at
this.
The sublimest crisis that ever drew on the
worlds destiny is at hand-not one nation, but
many nations, long struggling, bleeding, bapts-
ed in blood and FIRE, yet undaunted, are in ST.
lent strength mastering their forces for the great
last battle of civil and religious liberty. If ever
there was q holy war, it is to be this war-a war
not for piqne or conquest or selfish interests, but
for the great life-p principles of humanity and
Christianity. Silently the great leaders Mazzi-
nj, Kinkel, hossuth are guiding, holding, direct
aad restraining those tremendous forces, whose
outbreaks will shake the world. in every an
gush of that dread responsibility-in the shad-
0w of that awful crisis the mon of the age stands
among us-pae, worn, wasted with captivity
and wrestling with mighty sorrows. lie has
gone like one to whom pause or fatigue was i'm
possible through every city of our land, and stood
like an inspired prophet, to plead the cause, not
of single nation, but Of all humanity. Every
where, as by an electric sympathy, noble and
Christian hearts have sprung towards him, and
they who could not sacrifice to him their politi-
cal opinions, have been unable to hold back from
him the sympathy of their hearts. Never did
the highest and noblest natures of our country
meet any man with such hear-burst as Kos
snth has met in America; and while thunders
of applause have shaken forum and senate cham
Der, his name has gone up with morning and ev-
ening prayers from thousands of simple, lowIy
hearths, whose fathers and mothers and little
children have joined together to call Gods bless
ing on the great apostle and martyr of Liberty
and Christianity.
But in the midst of this generous tide OF enthu,
siasm. all that the New York Observer can see
is:
Oils tavern bills wonder who pays them ?"
Well there have been such people in all ages
Time was when of old the lake of Galilce and
The shores of Jordan rang with the tones Of
mghtier voice than that of Kossuth, and one who
spake as never man spake, announced, in words
uncqualed in sweetness, power and wisdom,
that doctrine Of universal brotherhood of which
kossuth is now a confessor. Never has such
an eloQuence been heard. Rude natures were
charmed gross hearts were melted, caVillers were
silenced, aud even those sent out maIiCiously to
take him, came back silenced aud subdued, and
the Chief priests and rulers, IN thelr VeXauon,
cried out, ''Pcrceive ye how ye prevail nothing {?
behold the world has gone after him"
But it seems that even then there were men
with similar range of thought with the New
York Observer, who, after all his eoquance,
could think of nothing to say but-"behold a
glutonous man a wine bbber :"
What could have peen said of these men in
those times, when they had heard all and seen
all, and this was all the result they could come
to--all they were capable of thinking or say
ing.
One thing is certain, that this particular style
of viewing things did not belong to "saints and
followers Of the lamb" in those days, and it does
not seem on the face of it particularly probable
that it does now. Yet now, as then, the word
of the master holds good, Wisdom is justified in
all her children.