The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-07

"UycLE Ton" AND rns EoctEsfA sr1cA AL sHnnY
The woolly head romance which has recently
caused such sensation among the antislavery fana
tics in this country and in England-the much be.
puffed "Uncle Toms Cabin '-has, strange to say,
turned out to be rebrand of strife and dissenson,
not where 1t was designed to produce these elements
but between the ministers Of the gospel and the
professors and preachers Of peace and good will to.
wards men. Terrible and annihilatory is the feud
which it has created among the saints Of the earth,
on whose lips the benedictory ejaculation Of par
6iscum is changed into expressions not exactly in
keeping with their reputation for meekness and pie
ty It would be quite irreverent in any person to
think, just now, Of the appropriateness Of the pro-
verb which speaks of the benefits which homes. men
have chance of deriving from the falling out Of
rogues; it would be na,ssps more becoming to de-
.o1s pne grievous injury which religion must suffer
fom this terrible strife among her great and shining
lights. There is doubtless sorrow and tribulation
among the angels in heaven, while jubilee reigns in
the lower regions; and among the infdels and So
ciasts of this subunary sphere, it is the cause of
triumph and rejoicing. Even the special organ Of
Fouriersm, s1epticism, atheism, and all the other
the prospect Of smash among the parsons, that it
devotes no less than three closely printed columns to
the details Of this ecclesiastical row.
AS in most other desolating wars, the hte,r,nm
c0usa btRt in this case is o woman-a religious
Christian, philanthropic specimen of womanhood
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe in her celebrated novel
Uncle Toms Cabin has, it seems, given mortal
offence to very worthy minister Of the gospel in
this city-Rev. Joel Parker-by attributing to him
pro.sayeIy sentiments and declarations, rejecting
on his reputation as pious Christian, q moralist
and philantbropist Mr.. Parker, deeply incensed
at his being thus publicly plloried and held upto the
excavation of the community, applied to Mrs. Stow
for public retraction of the offensive paragraphs
threatening suit for libel in case she refused to
make the amende honorable. After considerable
lodging and delay, which the injured party endured
with the patience and long suffering which are sup
posed to be among the attributes of his holy call
ing, one of the many reverend brothers of tn
authoress- Henry Ward Beecher-was appointed
plenipoteAtiary in the matter, to make terms From
the volumnous publications which have since bee,
flooding the religious newspapers on the subject Q.
the controversy, it would appear that Mr.. B., in III,
oficious performance Of his Office, drew up with hi
own hand correspondence purporting to be BE-
tween the offending and offended parties, in whici
justice sparngly done to the latter; and having
received conditional and very doubtful assent to
from DR.. Parker, he unhesitatingly caused the same
to be published the real bona de letters that has
passed between them, and which purported to have
been quite satisfactory to the injured feelings
DR.. Parker. This divine, however, was still more
wroth at the legerdemain trick thus played upon
him. and soon after comes out in one of the eccles
astical papers-the Obserrer-and disavows thes-
letters, pronouncing them to be, in fact forgeries
Then ensued correspondence, in which DR.. Parker
Professor Stowe, Mrs. H B Stowe, and her father
Rev. l.. Beecher, bore each apart and finally the &C
cused Henry Ward Beecher, comes out in his paper
the Independeat-with nine column article, design.
ed to utterly annihiate his reverend opponent In
one paragraph, in the summing up, this belgeren,
priest gives DR.. p the lie direct no less than six
Iimes-the lie equiyocal once-and accuses him OF
the surpressio rGt in four instances. In his own
waggish way, he exhorts poor Parker to "repent.
confess, and regain his peace of mind" then again
in company with the Observer, to ''confess first tc
God, next TO the public, and then to each other :
II will be thus seen that "Uncle Toms Cabin
has brought a sword of dissension and strife int
the sacred ranks of the priesthood, and has already
caused terrible fare up among the confraternity
The clergy in the city, and throughout the country
are ranging themselves on one side or on the other
and tie feud threatens to result in dreadful revul
sion, which may produce as mighty consequences
as did the split between Luther and Leo Y, b.
tween three and four centuries ago. Hard names
are interchangcd between the parties with as much
vigor, hberality, and contempt of the rules of 20
likeness, as characterize the classic sayings an
doirgs on tho Five Points," or as are to be founo
among the speeches and writings Of stump orators
or partisan jourr alists, before an election Now,a
all these reverend personageS destined, beyono
the possibility of doubt, to luxurate in the bca
fed regions ofthe seventh heaven, it may naturall
be inferred that their demeanor and conversations o,
earth is in perfect keeping with the state of society
in which they expect to move aloft; and if it be
then all we can soy in the matter is, that there j.
every probability Of g Uncle Toms" people
having the pleasure of associatng there, with tn,
inhabitants of the "Five Points," and the iafjel,
socialists and Fourierites who now vegetate in th
pious community.
NEWSPAPER STRUGGLES. Of the newspa.
pers in this city resemble drowning persons strug