Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-11-18
Americas Good Name,Abroad.


we hug to our bosoms, seemingly with so much
delight!
6" In the spring Of the current year
work was published in the United States
of America on the subject of negro slavery
and in the coure of last month it has been
published in this country. 1t is the work
Of lady, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe,
and is titled Uncle Toms Cabin The
book is a romance, but in it are given po-
IiticaI, philosophical, and, above all, reli-
gious views of the highest interest and prac-
teal importance. 1t is, beyond all doubt,
the book of the greatest original merit
which has appeared in the United States
since the declaration of their independence.
There is no one romance from the pens of
Ceramics, lie Sage, Fielding, or Smollett,
which, for instructive delineatlon Of charac-
ter and for moral pathos, can claim a
preference over it. We will venture to
say that no book in any language, on its
publication, drew so many virtuous tears
tears, moreover, that we trust will not have
bee shed in vain. Those tears are drops
of living liquid fire, branding the forehead
of the American shareholders, and Of their
guilty supporters.
Considering the force with which this
circulattSaf II he tnlRdHd PBTl States has already
exceeded 10000 copies, besides those now
printing and selling here, edition upon
edition, it was to be expected that the
wealthy shareholders would endeavor to
parry or to deaden the blow That blow
will have its effect, not merely in the United
States and in Britain and its dependencies
it will resound throughout the world.
Wherever there is printing press, wher-
ever there are hearts to feel, the story will be
told. There is no civilized community in
whose language that true, unexaggeraed,
and beautifully written tale will not be
heard. To parry, to stop, if possible, this
mortal thrust made at their system, the
crafty shareholders have, by their London
agents, obtained the advocacy of the Times
newspaper. The audacily and the practised
versatility of that newspaper they cunningIy
Judged to be we'll qualified to give plausibIl-
lty and extensive currency to the defence
Of their felony. Accordingly, there was
given in that ever-varying paper, on Friday
last, dissertation, three colums and half
long, on Mrs. Stoves work, and on the
critical position ofthe American slavehoIers,
who, thanks to Mrs. Stowe, are at length
brought before the bar of public opinion,
and stand arraigned before man for their
msdeeds, as they assuredIy will hereafter
have to stand before the bar of God, where
shutting will not avail them, The cry of
the afflicted slaves has been heard, and the
day of reckoning on earth is come. In vain
have the oppressors endeavored, for years
back, to conceal their crimes in bombas-
tic display of commercial, mechanical,
and political improvements. The fabric
of their republic and of their national
reputation bore goodIy outside, but it was
"a painted sepulchre, within full of dead
mems bones'--the bones OF the exirpated
native tribes, and of the fugitive slave
hunted to death with bIoodhounks, or con-
sumcd by Lynch law at slow fires.
1t is now seventy years siuce Jefferson
and some ether Philanthropic membcr 'oi
the Virginiun House of Assembly prepared
"a bill for the Emancipation Of all Slaves
born after the Act for the Revisal of the
Constitution of the State of Virginia.
The entire period of mans natural life has
passed away, and nothing has been done.
Two entire generations have passed away,
and nothing has been done-nothing effect
ual to forward emancipation in the really
slayehoIdmg States--many Legislative Acts
of the Supreme Congress to perpetuate the
Iniqu'y of Slavery, The cries of the
sufferers were suined, and each delinquency,
as it occurred, was huddIed over. They
proclaimed their Republic to be glorious,
flourishing in the arts and sciences, in me-
chanic contrivances, in manufactures, in
agriculture, and in commerce Not word
of any proposition of relief to the wretched
blacks whom they were treadlng under
foot, and on whose labor the most i'm
portant portion of their Wanted commerce
was founded.
Such are the facts. Yet the Times,
with perfect knowledge of all this, has
the face the canine hce'-to tell US that
America will do aI that can be desired, it
she be not a divided househoId-if the
South be not goaded to ilIberallty by the
North-if the public writer's deal with the
matter in the spirit of concIation jnstcc,
charity. and truth But there must be no
more Uncte Toms Cabins engendering i'll
will, keeping up bad blood, and rendering
welt-diSposcd, humane, but critically placed
men (sIavehoders, namely their own enc
mics, and the stumbling blocks to ciyIIiza-
ton and to speak Of gtai things from Hea.
Gen.
Hank to the blasphemer!
Go, sir; you are known. You can be
wonderously cool aud considerate, and You
can be very liberal of the lives of genera
ton after generation of black men. because
yOu have ascertained that their oppressors
are men Of liberal ideas, and of liberal hab-
lis, good, easy men, nobody's enemies but
their own II Cancellation, Justice, charity,
and truth were so necessary, why have your
patrons, the shareholders, those 0eH disposed
humane men, been SO slow in beginning TO
exercise these virtues If emancipation
must be slow work, why was it not begun
earlier by those excellent men? Was the
resolution Of Congress to hear no petition
against sIayery-was the Fugitive Slave
Law Cancellation The characters Of such
men, with your recommendation will, no
doubt, stand higher for all that is good
than poor ideal Toms for religion, with all
the advantages of Mrs. Stoves imagina-
ton. But, to be serious. When is this
great work of reformation to begin Are
there to be other 20 years taken before a
commencement shall be made! And, at
the end of those second 20 years GAO
years y are men to be nsuIted then, as now,
by some whittier telling them--'alI will be
well and done in good time, if the gentle
,Iore bo NOT rnoloI 10 a