The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-12-22
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Uncle Toms Cabin,

Uncle IOuPB cabin.
The eccentric Dr. Lyman Beecher and all his vision
airy family are well known in this neighborhood They
people Of intellectual capacity but all fanatical
and fond of noorieiy Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe ia the
flower of the flock in point OF genius, but has more OF
the otter than the in her taste and sympa,hies +.
Like many others, we tried TO read her sable fiction,
"Uncle Toms Cabin" but found it tissue OF false phi
lanthropy and Misrepresentation Her negro character
are extfavagan specimens OF Perfection far superior to
human nature in general, and much above the common
standard of"whte folks" As it is well said in one of
your articles, her argument decidedly in favor of sa
very, as the best school for virtue and refinement
II Mrs. Stowe had been familiar with the South, she
would have known that the best on plapta-
ton would be the very last article sold for money. even
under the pressure of debt And yet she forces the
Ter sell his faithful foreman, and the mistress her ia
yore housemaid, whilst there were lots OF common ne
groes on the place In fact her hard strained romance
ia Inconsistent with the paines dictates of reason and
common sense. We could nog read il through /; bot,
judging from the pciures suppose she finally lands
the victims OF her charity The cold regions of Canada
there 10 freeze and under that visionary
ence which only feels for imaginary suferngs OF par
tcular description, II Mrs Stowe would visit the gnr-
and cellars Of London the coal mines of ant,
very Eng and, she would find millions of misera.
BILE creatures who would be ihaokful for share OF the
BREAD meat, and clothing OF southern slaves That
ma ksh charity which depends the color of its OBJ
jecs is very peculiar to our northern lunatics and the
darker the SIX the deeper their sympathy But, unfor-
tuna,ey for their avoe class OF OBJ ,cts the moment
they free from comfortable homes and thrown upon
their appropriateness, they be the objects of
regard 1t is eoiOrsd misery those busy Pharsees
depore, whilst white men, women, and children may
s,arve and in wre,chedness without throb Of sym
paihy from those cold northern hearts.
We account for this colored Partially on three broad
principles Hostility to the South. morbid appetite for
mischief, and greediness for gain Mrs Stowe could
write truthful story white slavery, but il
would sell well IT would meet with the same
fana,ca feeling and malicious zeal TO give il circulation
Her book probably written by contract, like Dick
enss ISLANDERS country from venomous spleen,
like the vulgariiies Of Madame TroIlope. Mrs Stowe
Processes 10 be pous woman but the OF religion
is not promoted by the perverson OF truth, by the
frivolous repetition OF sacred Neither does it
become the descendants OF shippers who made their for
tunes by lbe importation OF slaves censure the South
for the result OF northern cupdy; for doubt many
abolitonisls OF the North living on the profits
OF the slave trade
II is well for country that 80 large portion OF the
people have condemned those wicked agitators, who
would sacrifice the hopes OF the world to carry out
fanatical or hypocntical idea. w
CmcssATr, December 10, 1859 III