Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1852-12-09

cnupe.' and continued by DR.. Bailey. iht
moderate and able ediior Of the Nationa
Era. of Washington city. IN which Uncle
Toms Cabin first appeared in weekly
npmbers, was destroyed five times. Oh
one OccasiOn, the mayor dismissed, nj
midnight, the rioters who had also pulled
down The houses Of some cOlored people
with the following piihy speech: We'll,
boys let's 60 home we've done enough.'
One of these m0bS deserves particular no
tice, as its victims enlisted deeply the sym~
pathies of Mrs. Stowe. Ia 1870, the slave.
calchers, backed by the riff-raff of the pop
ulstion. and urged on by certain politicians
and merchants, attacked the quarters in
which the negloes reside. Some of the
houses were battered down by cannon. For
several lays the city was abandoned 10 vi
olence and crime. The negro quarters
wore pillaged and sacked-negroes who
J attempted to defend their property were
| killed and their mutilated bodies cast into
| the streets-women were violated by ruffi-
! ans. md some afterwards died Of the inlu'
| rieS received--houses were burnt and men,
( women aud children were abducted in the
confusion and hurried into slavery. From
[ the brow of the hill on which she lived,
I Mrs. Stowe could hear the cries cf the VIC
tins, the shouts Of the mob and the reports
I of the guns aud cannon, and could see the
flames of the conRagration. To more than
one of the trembling fughives she gave
shelf and wept bitter tears with them.
After the fury Of the mob was spent many
of the coloEed people gathered together the
i loGe &kn oF nd ar ed
| for Canada. Hundreds passed in font Of
Mrs, Stoves honse. Some Of them were
| in little waggons--some were trudging
along on foot after their household stuff
} some led their children By the hand, AMI
there were even mothers whO walked on,
sucking their, infants, and weeping for the
dead or kidnapped husbands they had LETS
behind.
This road, which ran through Walnut
Hills, and within few feet of Mrs. Stoves
door, was one Of tho favorlle routes of the
underground railroads.&c. often alluded to
in .Uncle TOMS Cabin. This name was
given to a line OF Quakers and other Abo>
li,ionists, who, living al intervals of 10,
Is or 20 miles between the Ohio River and
the NertIsSi Lakes, had formed them
selves into a sort of association to aid
| fugitive slaves in their escape to Canada.
! Any fugitive was taken by night on horses
back or in Covered Wagons from station to
station, until he stood on free soil, and
found the folds of the lion banner floating
over him, and the artillery of the British
| Empire between him and Slavery. The
| first station North of Cincinnati was few
! mi les up Mill Creek, at the house Of the
pious and lien hearted John Vanzandt, who
| figures in chapter nine Of Uncle Toms
Cabin as John Van Trompe. Mrs. Stowe
must have often been reused from her
sleep by the quick rattle Of the covered
was CONS, and the confused galopihg Of the
horses of constables and shareholders in
hot pursuit. 'Honest john was always
ready to turn out with his team. and the
hunters of men were not often adroi
enough to come up with him. He sleeps
now in the obscure grave Of a martyr. The
gigantic frame of which the novelist
speaks was worn down at last by want of
sleep, exposure and anxiety, and his spills
We're depressed by the prosecutions which
we're accumulated on hip. Several slaves
wtIu t,.A l-A al "a. 4.nA,+--.y Is. l.;e
. means sued him in the United States Courts
for damages, and judgment after iuds ment
. stript him of his farm and all his property.
During her long residence on the from.
tier OF the slave States, Mrs. Stowe made
several visits to them. 1t was then, no
doubt, she made the observations which
have enabled her to paint noble. generous
and humane slavehpldeEs in the characters
of Wilson the manufacturer. Mrs. Shelby
and her son George, St. Clare and his
daughter Eva, the benevolent purchaser at
the New Orleans auction sale, The mistress
Of Susan and Emmeline, and Symmes, who
helped Eliza and her boy up the river bank.
Mrs. Stowe has observed slavery in every
phase she has seen masters and slaves at
home. New Orleans markets, fugitives,
free colored people, pro-savery politicians
and priests. abolionists and colonization>
ists.gs She aud her family have suffered
from it-seventeen years Of her life have
been clouded by it. For that long period,
4 she stiaed the strongest emotions of her
heart. No one but her intimate friends
knew their strength. She has given them
expression at last uncle Toms Cabin is
the agonizing cry of feelings pent up for
years in the heart of true woman.