The Yazoo Democrat., 1853-01-26
f H E D E M OCRA A T
PHILLIPs & PERKINS. ED1roas
From the British Army Despatch, Dec 3.
Uncle Toms Cabin REania-.physS-
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We have not reviewed Uncle Toms Cabin,
chiefly because we felt our views OF the tenden.
cy and nature Of that work to be SO hostile that
we could scarcely judge of it in proper critical
manner. We believe it to possess certain
melo-dramatic power equal in pathos to the
"Green Bushes" at the Adelph, and in incident
to popular novel something between the style
of Eugene Sue and George Reynolds But we
believe 1t also to be devoid of truth, principle,
and reality. and that its tendencies are highly
mischievous and detrimental to the interests Of
mankind. In saying this we entirely acquit its
authoress, Mrs. Stowe, of any evil desire, any
wicked feeling, or intended falsehood. That la
d.. for all we know, may be a most excellent,
as she is undoubtedly very talented person.
We fully give her credit for good motives We
doubt not that she believes herself entrusted with
a mission as much as ever did any "eminent fe-
male" from Mary Leezinska down TO Johanna
Southcote. We eau imagine her to be endowed
with an awful sense of womanhood, and to
make-if ever she condescended to such task
since the second edition of her book was sold
about the worst dumplings that were ever placed
upon dirty tabIe-cloth in a sovenly parlor.-
We can imagine that she writes big, scrawling
hand, with the letters all backwards, avoiding
neatness with pains-taking precision--her voice
is probably harsh her attitude imposing, and she
will or does wear her own grey hair in the moth
er-of-a-nation style. Still we think it a great
pity that she did not do any thing rather than
| what she has DONE with all the busy enthusiasm
of woman in breeches. When some time ago
long before the work was known in England we
CHANGED to take it up in the apartment of an
American friend, we stumbled upon a passage
of the first force in cant and nonsense. II was
in the style of those anti-slavery, African coasi
blockade tracts, which we remember abounded
some years since, and which assisted in hetraying
to destruction SO many brave English seamen,
and cost the lives of so many unhappy negroes.
For it is our deliberate opinion that more crime
abomination of every kind. loss of life, and mis-
cry have been caused by our Intervention to the
negro race, than thrice the number of years would
have witnessed, had slavery been still the law of
Europe and all America, and been allowed its
full fling throughout the whole civilized world
To avoid our cruisers, what forced marches and
confined stowage have been adopted How
many unfortunate blacks have been killed By our
the way to tighten the flying SLAYER or avoid de-
lection While we, the philanthropists. have
furnished The slave monarchs with arms to take
them captive-Brummagem guns, pistols. and
cutlasses to hunt down the unfortunate wretches,
for whom hypocrisy prays, while neglecting the
HIndoo and starving the white man Philan-
thropy, too. sweetens her tea with slave-grown
sugar, half penny pound cheaper, refined by
negro blood, at the expense of West India pro-
prietors. How is the cotton raised let US ask
that supplies the raw material for the white
slaves of Manchester? All such points woman
never thinks of, and il she hear them, cannot un-
Iderstand We will be bound there is no peg in
Harrie;'s head whereon ,'to hang an inference" /"
She sips her tea and cries aloud, Is he not man
aid brother?" But this is pardonable, We
cannot excuse the Duchess of Sutherland and all
those fine ladies round whom thousands of their
fellow -countrywomen toll unaided--pale daugh-
ters of consumption, whose threads of life are
woven into the trumpery lace adorning the daz-
lzlng bosom of female philanthrophy at draw
ing room What are Hoods poems compared
to Uncle Toms Cabin! Nothing Wretched
inconsistency of conduct! Miserable contradic-
ton of sympathy What tears must angels
weep at these fantastic follies of mankine
However, we are straying from our intention.
4 We maintain thatthis one-sided representation
is creating mischief between Great Britain and
the United States, which nothing can remedy,
no treaties obviate, no craftsmanship hereafter
: avoid. We say that the sickly interference OF
our fine ladies, many, nay most of whom, would
shrink from the contact of a dying needlewo-
man on their doorsteps, and daily pass unheed-
) ing the miseries of thousands of white women,
is an excess Of folly and hypocrisy that will be
the curse Of freedom throughout the world We
lquestion the motives of these ladies. Among
] them we see the names Of some not renowned
; for matronly virtues, but notorious for vanity
frivolty, and fashion--that comprehensive word
which includes so much social evil On the
: stage, this work, aided BY the morbid talent o
it's adapters and the exquisite cleverness Of suct
actors and actresses as are now electrifying ar
Adelphi audience, is doing mischief whichs
century cannot repair. Let the Lord Chamber
lain look TO this. We are playing the part o
the tlespot and the priest by insulting the United
States of America. What have we TO do witt
the internal affairs of the American Republic p
Why are we to back this great exaggerated LIE
Let the Americans send out here and write
book which shall tell the truth--ays one-haf the
!. truth--of London city; let them get up drama
whose scene shallbe in Lancashires LEI tnen
!. / make out Rritons to be task-masters, wltnou