The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-06-23
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Mrs. Stowe in Great Britain,

Mrs. Stowe in Great Britain.
j While Mrs. Stowe il feted and feasted il
Glasgow, Edinburgh, and throughout Grea
Britain, receiving dollars and compliments
for no other reason than that she has graft
fed foreign prejudiees against our countr.
by holdingit up to scorn and hatred, we hope
/ she is collecting materials for setting fortl
the moralities Of the father land in a future
novel. The Edinburgh Witness, in tht
very number which records this lady's NOR
tfying and anti-American triumph, contains
the following notice, which We hope she
will transfer to her portfolio:
"SALE OF A WIFE.--By an application for I
summons made at the London Police Court
on Wednesday, it became known that {
blacksmith named Turner lately purchased
a wife, in the person Of a Mrs. Huntley, fol
a pot OF beer and three penny pie"
| We think it quite possible, however, thai
Mrs. Stowe will have her hands full in carry
| ing out her anti-American agency for hel
British friends. She has probably gotten
herself into a position for which she woulc
hardly have bargained at the outset. W.
have no doubt that Uncle Toms Cabin was
written as much to make good story as fol
any thing else; but the author finds that hen
friends on the other side of the Atlantic look
upon the book as practical concern, and
Mrs. Stowe as the most proper person in
the world to devise and carry out such meas
ures as may remedy the evil of which she
writes with such narrowing interest. The
speeches made at the receptions in Britain.
and the newspaper articles, take the ground
that Mrs. Stoves visit is not to be made a
mere complimentary affair, but business
matter. They say that they have expected
from their guest and her husband important
facts and nggestions-such as must be ia
milar to one who could write such book as
the "Cabin.''
We very much doubt whether either the
famous lady or her hege lord, will exactly
understand how to meet this demand upon
them As for the husband, he has one
speech which he made at Glasgow, and
which the newspapers intimate that he has
been speaking ever since; but this speech
contains but little that would be new to
audiences on either side Of the Atlantic.
The chief point in it. is the necessity of stop
ping the British market for American cotton
in order to destroy slavery; but DR.. Stowe
very candidly confesses that he cannot do
we shreWdly suspect that she is more at a
loss as to what she shall do with the large
sums of money her British friends are en-
trusting to her for uprootng slavery in
America, than she ever was in constructing
any part of Uncle Toms Cabin. If she
gives it to the old-fashiened Abolition Soci-
eties, she might as well have left it in the
pockets where it came from, SO far as any
benefit to the slave Is concerned, Judging
from the past history of these Societies.
Were she to cast it into the treasury of the
American Colonization Society, or give it
to Southern Christians to aid in supporting
the self-denying missionaries, who arc
preaching among the slaves on the planta-
tions her British gold w9pld hfl iHelss, n0w-
ever, will she choose; she must appear to do
something more directly for accomplishing
the object over which she has caused SO
many tears to be shed. We have but little
doubt but that Mrs. Stowe would give a
small edition of Uncle Toms Cabin to-
know exactly how to dispose of that money,
so as to satisfy the parties interested, and
keep up the reputation for consistency in the
author of Uncle Tom. Gladly, perhaps,
would she hand it back to the donors, with
the ntmaton that her vocation was book
making, and not that of Anti Slavery Agent;
but the excited Britons might Immediately
exclaim, .What. write such horrors as yon
have done and not take our money, when
offered to you, to remove them.-lmpossi-
ble.' So Mrs. Stowe must pocket the
British gold, and make up her mind as well
as NAV be. what she shall do with it. Nous
perrO,aS
This transatlantic excursion, after all, may
not turn out, in the end, to have been the
most felicitous thing the author of Uncle
Toms Cabin ever did. She and her suite
are pandering to British anti-American feel
ing quite as much as to any real anti-slavery
principles. According to the most reliable
testimony from abroad, nothing has ever
done so much to excite hostility towards the
United States, in Europe, as Uncle Toms
Cabin. 1t has been chosen instrument in
the hauds of despots there for propping up
their tottering thrones, through the indigna-
ton it excites, against this refuge for Europe's
millions-this model republic
of the world.
We do not remember ever to have seen a
more humiliating instance of the entombing
of all patriotism, and of love for the name
and honor of ones own country, than Is
shown in Professor Stoves first speech on
British soil