The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1852-11-24

ietters in Dr. Tarkeg's sig; OF hia request s'iat
.bsy Should Be written; Of hs warn arProyai % J
.lI,r they salys1sas the trutb. when they deeafe
that Dr. Parker agreed only to to6e these Lss'efs
mo sdvsensns, and tp make them tho rubJect o.
fu.nrescensidera;on. they state an untrufii-
And now d The Observer has been led into this
ouaemire by DR.. Parker. it can extricate irself,
,J,ouel, IL will be hard seon to cleanse itself, and
Stand among 20 900 families safe and jndicious
religious paper.
If Dr.. Parker has been drawn into by the
Observer, he can repent, confess, and regain his
peace of mind.
But if both of them tcok hold of hands and leap
ed together into the conspiracy to destroy me, and
blast the influence of UDcle Toms Cabin, they |
ought to confess first to God, next to the public. |
and then TO each other. They have done me- no
harm, and have nothing to forgive.
In this long chapter of consecutive falsehoods !
which have flowed down the columns OF the O1-
server, there is not alleviaiing circumstance
In DIR. Parker's letters there are expressions OF
regret, and hopes that things may be found better
than they seem; but in the Observer there is not
hope expressed for better things. not sorrow ut
tered over such wickedness it sets forth; there
is no iatimation that there may be explanation;
that when am heard from, Mrs. Stowe, pos
sibly better face may be put upon it. There is
the steady tread. from beginning to end of lis re-
cifaI, of man who has deadly purpose, who Is
sure of his victim, who tracks ha with delight aud
excitemeut, who marks the vital spots, and strikes
blow upon blow to make the execution deadly.
And having put forth charges which viii hence
forth stand without parallel OF atrochy 10 the
history Of religious journalzing. it declres that It
was dune for The s.enteriainrleat' of its readers
We part company from the New York Observer.
On the road that we are endeayoring to travel we
shall seldom meet it. and we bid it farewell!
In respect to DR.. Parker, my feelings are those
of most unaffected sorrow His ags, his office, his
former usefulness, his newly planted hopes IN q
congregation lately bereayed Of the pastoral care OF
the noble of M illusrious father-these things.
and the general welfare of religion. make ms in
expressibiy sad to have been the instrument OF
such an exposure, and such justice as awaits him.
If auy Thick or feel that have dealt uncharit-
ably with them, let them believe me when say.
that if DIR. Parker had spared Mrs. Stowe
against her, as of honor, he ought not to
have had the shadow of resentment shs had ap
pearod before the public in the most handsome
manner and in unquestioned good fath--if he had
simply stated to the public. or if he had made the
circuit of the whole ministerial neighberhood, as
he has done with his published story with COM
plant against me. should have said-"Dr. Parker
forgets that interview must have faded from his
mind" But such charity can explain this
shameless breach of honor toward lady who had
publicly and honorably reracted any injahy IN
Willingly done and when, to harm her, he not
sony raked up all the embers of expired contro-
versy, but stated the facts with such suppressions
to make them bear false witness; for all this, a
q. falliJie memory cannot be pleaded.
Even after the scandalaus publication of the OBJ
server,I called upon Mr.. Butler, and told him that
i was willing to Withhold every word of defence
from publication, If Dr. Parker would relieve me
from the weighr and odium of his stateuients.-
Supremacy conscious of my own integrity. and in
this very thing having open and clean breast
before God; knowing in my inmost souli that / had
stranscended the mere requirement of duty, and
had acted magnanimously, and with the sincerest
regard for Dr. Pnrker's interest as minister and
as gentleman, and that l had done him a kind
ness almost as great as sae man do to another,
Icould almost have cod ted to have stood with
ont the utterance of word, and lived dowa the
slander by apatient continuance in well doing; but
a sisters honor, and the interest in me which be-
'longed 70 the more than 5000 souls of my huck,
would not permit it. Nor would the Observer
permit it. whose purpose it with double stroke
to destroy me, and blast the influence of the
svorld-rsad Uncle TOMS Cabin.
1t was my prayer TO God when I began this mar
rative that my brain might not reel be left to
error. aud it was my promise. if He would give
me grace and wisdom 10 strike true blow for a
sister that should set her free from the aecursed
enehantments in which her reputation stood spell
bound before the public that would hardly ask
thing for myself. But God has given all anc
more, and the work is done, and eternity will moi
untwine the cords with which this monstrou.
iniquity is bound for the sacrifcel
commit this narrative to the sober judgment
of all good men; and myself commit to the
charge of Almighty God!
HENRY WARD BEEcHER.
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