The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-08-25


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We depart this morning from our ususl Gus
tom, TO introduce communication whose pu'-
port, we think, will quite justify US IN making
il the subject of few remarks.
Some months ago, one Mrs. Harriet Deeo"e'
Stowe took to the publishing house OF "'i''p,,
ISamnson g. Co., in Boston, the Ms. oil oook
which she offered them for their cohs'ieio"oA
,s,o The terms or which fhev would bring IL
CT. These gentlemen, we underestimate suns
fed themselves by hastv perusai oil Tue shee's
H., rho book WIS one of bad character, and
declined to issue it on any terms. Inc ooJec-
ion 10 il was that it grossly vil;hed and mis-
,enresented the Southern people TO whom
Messrs. Phillips, Sampson g. Co. sold very
many of their publications. If We have been
correctly informed on this point the conduct
of these gentlemen is worthy Of all praise, and
presents rar e and striking instance of homes
~ in New England publisher. Mrs. Stowe,
however, soon found willing agent for the
putting forth of her work, and out it came ac-
cordingly, heralded by flaming placnrds and
wonderful announcements. Its sale has been
SO great that already has it passed through
more editions than any former work Of the
class in any country. Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe having with Yankee shrewdness made
good thing Of it, with her publisher, Will be
able, from the proceeds, TO live the rest oil her
DAYS in ease ami comfort, TO wear stockings
without holes in them, end TO display hands
unstained with the marks Of the inkstand. The
book we need scarcely say flor the reader has
already anticipated its name) was called "Un-
Gle Toms Cabin"
That such a book should commend itself to
the perusal of the Northern Aboitionists-
who. we seriously fear, constitute ninetenths
OF the whole population OF the New England,
Middle and Northwestern States-is not at all
surprising. 1t is agreeably written, it shows
marked dramatic ability, and has just about
truth enough in it TO hold together its precious
LOT of falsehoods and render them specious to
Northern readers. With their views OF the
enormity of slavery, they might very consis-
tently buy it and read it enjoyingly. But we
confess ourselves utterly at loss TO see how
Southern men and women can reconcile it
with their notions Of self-respect to purchase,
or to read with any other emotion than dis
gust, q volume reeking with the vilest misrep-
resentation of themselves and their social in
situations. And yet we have heard that the
demand for it has been great in the Southern
States. The amount of money paid already by
Southern people to this Yankee publisher and
Yankee woman for abusing and slapderiug US,
would not fall far short of sustaining one of
their Southern periodicals-the Southern
Quarterly Review or the Southern Literary
Nessenger-for six months. In the name of
Justice and propriety, TO what are we coming,
if such course is to be pursued ? What can
Southern men expect as the fruits of such q
literature? Do we gather grapes from thorns
or figs from thistes ? Shall we look for any
improved condition of our slaves, if books of
this character are to be admitted among them
in communities where very many slaves can
read with facility? Or may we not nationally
apprehend from the wide dissemination of such
dangerous volumes, the ultimate overthrow of
the framework of Southern society amid cir
cumstances of tragic CONFUSION from which
the Imagination starts back with horror'
But TO our correspondents letter.
"Uncle Toms Cabin, or Life among tie
LOUly."
MIR. EDITOR How is it that while each
party here is contending that its candidate for
the Presidency is warm advocate of the Flu
gi,ve Slave Act, we permit the sale and circu-
lation amongst us of book which the author
herself admits is directed expressly against the
Act-a book which is tissue Of falsehoods
from beginning to end, which suggests to our
slave s throughout the idea of attempting their
escape, and which advocates, in the person OF
one al least Of her Slare characters, the muir,
der of her own offspring, theft from her master,
aye! even the murder itself of that MASTER
That book is the one whose title heads this
communication. The r0man-author, who,
"for price," under the garb of religion. has
published to the world this libel upon human.
ity, deserves 10 be secuted from all decent So
cleiy, and is unworthy of association with any
save the vilest of "the lowly" of whose cause
she has constituted herself the advocate. We
say to our Grand Jurors FIAT JUsrIrIA.