The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-10-20
HIackwood and Slavery.

f.lsone incense at the shrine of the au'ho' 80
OF Uncle Toms Cabin" II makes "' a.
however. in the October number ~. US :.
Law which Il declares has not arisen rom :"
difference, by most ardent euioe nnro
work and its authoress, ana a ''i''1. '. -
than usual bitterness and spHe ~ arms.
-, s,averv a subject of wh'ch " e"n'io'
49, ~ ,v;thout betraying the most extra
-, combination of ignorance ana ma.
ca"i. ss;h,e ia conceive. We are not
NO t,ore our readers with comments on
s.no rn.out subject of Mrs stoves oooN'
Nv, simply to invite their attention 70 'he
n,.rner ia which such teacher IN israeli as
Ers,s.lxoods Magazine, exhibits its know
ledge of great topic which it processes TO
a;scuss az. cdt6edra, and even OF ihat grand
-.,,,o oe human nature which lies daily
oman to the ewes of the peasant as well as the
saaa and with the first principles OF which
,.e MIGHT reasonably suppose the conductors
.f the principal magazine in the world to
sharn some slight acquaintance. Moreover,
-;.;s well that the American people should
coo nv these occasional volcanic eruptions OF
hatred and contempt towards our country
how deep and inextinguishable are the hres
which rage beneath the aowery and vlne-ciad
surface of professed British friendship and
anity.
In the first place, the reviewer in BLACK
wood affects to doubt whether, century
hence. the present United States OF Anne
r;cs, after having been repeatedly spht asun
der and soldered together, or even large
norton voluntarily re-annexed to the mother
country, and by and by again detached may
not become great Empire. under the sway
Of a ie. black Emperor, with white wife, a
payti-colored Cabinet, and laws to accord
with these harmonious diversities. We are
unable to suppose that the most learneddunce
in Europe can seriously put credit IN the
realization of dream, which an ordinary
mortal would be at once put IN straight
Jacket for indulging; nor that any but the
most conceited and stupid cockney OF Eng
land would gravely entertain the belief that
snv portion of the United States could be
voluntarily, or involunfarily, re-annexed to
Great Britain. Whatever fate awaits US IN
TIE future, whether Of anarchy or despotlsm'
thank Heaven, the broken links of the cham
which bound us to England. can never be re-
united. We cant see ahead century, any
more than this wise reviewer, but we tnink IL
would be much safer to predict that England
will one day be annexed to this country, than
this country to England. At ali events, Judg-
ing from recent demonstrations in Europe
and from the servile and sycophantic spirit
in which England truckles to the great king
of the North, and hastens TO get out OF his
way as he comes down upon Turkey, IKE
frightened cur running from before loco
motive, we may prophecy with some Ger
tainty that long before another century has
passed, Great Britain, if not annexed to the
United States, will be miserable province
of Russis-if not Republican. VIII be Cos
sack.
The ignorance betrayed by great review
er Of the real state OF things in the South
ern States, is such as should entltle any
school boy, of ten years, to sound hagela-
ton. He swallows, without a long face, eve
ry one of Mrs Mupchausen's wild tictions Tor
gospel truths, and solemnly hints his conVlc-
ton that there is a great deal more and
great deal worse: which she has left unsai..
We of the South know that crueities and
hardships, such as are recited by Mrs. Stowe
If they ever occur, arc but exceptional ano
that, az ?. body, the Southern slaves are the
best fed, the most comfortably ciotheo, ant
happieet class of laborers IN the "oflo. l.
this reviewer really ignorant OF the iao's'-
IL he is, why does he write? Ii not ne Is
deliberate and malicious siandefef' II
pitiable, truly, that such magazine dc i'i@cA
wood. should be converted into an engine
hatred. malice, and uncharitabieness'
The reviewer thinks that the writings
Dickens have made a deep impression Oh
Mrs. Stowe, and that these two authors have
much in common. There is much IN common
certainly between the horrors in Uncle Ton
and the atrocities contained in Dickens
book of American Travel. Both TEEN with
the most fragrant, palpable and unadultera-
ted libe4s. Both Dickens and Stowe are wri-
tiers of fiction But did it ever occur to the
great men Of Blackwood that it would be as
well for his countrymen to remove such huge
beams of misery as Dickens has depicted in
English society, from their own upturned
eyes, before they attempt to extract the
notes from others?
Then the fulsome eulogies which the re-
viewer passes upon Mrs Stoves disinterested-
ness and piety of character, founded entirely
and exclusively upon her books Are the
wise ones of the earth SO easily humbugged!
The reviewer speaks of her in the most raptu
rous terms, as SO ''uno6ectedly and profound
iy pious." SO looing and tender, SO disinte
rested, generous and humane How does he
know itf Because she writes such soft and
sympathetic things! Why, sterne showed
more pathos over dead ass than Mrs Stowe
has displayed over her live negroes vet Il
tnere ever existed more callous and selfish
nature than Sterne possessed, unless per.
chance it be Mrs. Stowe history has failed to
record the name. Let tie learned reyiewe,
read Thaekeray's letters again, and observ,
the wide difference therein noted h.s,vao,
the author and the man. Oh. humh,aoo
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