The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1853-07-13
Uncle Tom in England.

Mr.. Moran, author of Footpath
and Highway" has returned to En-
gland. in recent letter to the Phil
adelph.a Register, he says: The I'm
Gle Tom mania has spent itself, aud
even Mrs. Stowe is but little spoken
Of She is still in London, and con-
tinues to be, with Miss Greenfield, the
Black Swan, the guest of the now cele-
brated Duchess Of Sutherland. Por-
traits of both the authoress and VOCALIST
are to be seen in almost all the print
shop windows, but neither attract much
attention. The BLACK Swan is TOO
high for vulgar comprehension, and
consequently is not popular. Her first
public concert was fashionably, but
not largely, attended, and the general
belief is that her profits will be small.
The novelty of Miss Green6eld's life
will give her a temporary advantage,
but nothing more. She will serve to
furnish the anti-slavery class some
thing to talk about, but will scarcely
be honored by having gin palace
named after her as Uncle Tom has.
The offspring OF Mrs. Stoves brain has
more sympathisers here than any flesh
and blood specimen of African human
ity possibly canhave. Fiction is more
attractive than fact, and consequently
, the ideal being is the recipient of more
notice and more compassion than the
, real.
1t was supposed by many in the
United States that large numbers OF
the signatures attached to the Duchess
of Sutherland addicss to our ladies on
the slavery question were fictitious,
but I am inclined to think not. La
+ dies here have been very busy obtain
+ ing names to it, and thousands made
it personal duty to canvass their
y y neighborhoods for that purpose. An
old female friend of minc-an amiable,
!. kind-hearted Quaker lady, tells me
f that she was deeply interested in OBJ
Y tanning signatures, and succeeded IN
It securing large number, when she
e met with a gentleman of her own per-
d suasion, who doubted the policy she
, was following, and asked her if she had
,, ,, read Mrs. Tyler's address. She re-
N Piled that she had not. "Then,' said
. the friend, Il advise thee to get it be-
fore thee obtains another name. inn
/. aeine thee does not exactly understand
is the true merits of the question of a.
is merican slavery, and as thee is engas,
ed in this with kindly feelings, read
N Julia Tyler's letter, and if thy charity
d does not begin at home | am mista-
y ken" She at once took his advice,
/ and in quiet way destroyed the sigma
+ lures she had been at the trouble to
G get. She began to inquire into the truth
t. of Mrs. Tyler's statements respecting
e the poor of this metropolis, and, in
d stead of weeping tears over the Soes
c of the downcast in other lands, shp IS
II now, with others of her own denomina-
# ton, cndeavoring to mend the condl-
- ton and prospects of the poor needle
y women of London-somc of whom are
i" compelled to work twenty hours out OF
!. twenty-four, and sleep in kennels as
h that. She thinks Mrs. Stoves book
l. has had beneficial effect in England
C because it has set the beneyoleld TO
a seeking ont the Elias, the Cassys' and
the Uncle Toms, of this favored land
Il of whom there are, in her opinion,
r. thousands-not lashed on the back,
r. however, by the thong, but in the belly
by hunger She has taken it upon
/. herself to render them aid, and means
C to sign 40 more addresses such as that
c, which emanated from Stafford House.
d The human society to which she be-
&c longs is ever foremost in alleviatiug the
s. distresses of the unfortunate, and it is
! highly creditablc to theRa that they are,
/ at this time, engaged in mending the
4. condition of the London poor.