New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-23
MRS. STOWE AND THE SLAVERY JOURNALS.
The JOunalcf Commerce copies from The Richmond
Eu;rr an article of which the following il eXtract

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The key TO Uncle Toms Cabin is reprhensble and
DIS. using than The fabric Of deceit which was panied
with the coors drawn from this cOpOus paint box THIS
poryrrOn and misrepresentation of ruth more constant
peryerse and systematic than it before the facts EN-
poyod are repubshed without any inquiry into either their
ruth real bearing, and warped, twisted d,ocaed
and sconsiruod with nuring ingenuity which renders
almost every line deception asd every paragraph aby
rnh Of sophstry Mrs Stowe Is not very respectful 20 the
South this meshe is bs no means chaTy IN giving the lie
direct TO the whole Southern people We cannot rebuke
her very harshy for this dscOuresy she Is only return
the compliment which had been very generally accorded at
the South and partially elsewhere to her own former work
and which have doubt will be very readily bestowed
on The present volume.
nv way penance OF honest exercise for Mrs Stoves
ingenious industry, by way OF discipline Tor any OF her
abolition friends we would propose mat one or me oihcr
should collect from the French German, English Irish and
Northern newspapers and from other less authentic sources
OEc novels OF Sue, Dumas, Lppard, Reynolds for in
sfance) all the murders adulteres seductOus hes cheat
inls lyngs false swcanngs sarvaons eyictons &c, &c
label Efec OF Free Labor and dedicate 10 the Ouch
ess Of Sutherland and the modern representative OF An
ihony Ashley Cooper the prohgate Earl OF Shaitobury
III would be full equpose to all Mrs Stoves anti Say
cry hctons
The Richmond Enquirer is of course ignorant of the
spirit which inspires the literature of Sue in chasing
him with Dumas and others of its list. Sue. we beg
leave to tell The Enquirer as well as The Journal Of
Commerce, is a humanitarian or sOciastic writer
whose ayOwed purpose is to hold up to reprobaton and
reform the evils of socaed free labor as at present
existing in Europe. He shows how the working classes
are driven to crime by oppression, and therefore in
common with Consderant Louis Blanc and other emf
nent authors does exactly what The Enquirer puts in
sarcasticaIly suppOsrtOus form. He does cite " the
murders aduteres seductions, thefts cheatngs yngs
false swearngs staryiDgs &c. &c as" effects Of free
labor as it prevails under the political and social sys
TEN Of bis country The category of shames and
crimes caused by the effects of slave labor in the South
is set forth by Mrs Stowe who is of the same school
OF humanitarian thinkers and writes in this country
With precisely the bect Sue and his cOlabOrer
nbroad-the abolition Of slavery and the elevation OF
the mech anical manufacturing and laboring masses.
The accusation Of The Enquirer virtually endorsed
BY Tie Journal that Mrs Stowe wifuly lies is gener-
alzaton in the worst taste. Please to name single
falsthOod in her Key. We promise to copy IT, though
We feel sure neither The Enquirer nor Journal will copy
/ this article.
BY the way, did not The Courier and Enquirer de.
uouDee Uncle Toms CABIN upon its first appearance,
and pledge itself TO show up lie falsehOOdr VIVA.
makes that paper so dumb in disproying the Key. A
truce to defamation. Cone let Us have the dsprOOf
you have any offer Are not yellow girls habituay
prOstitued Is not labor enforced by the lash Are
not families severed under cruel masters and Execu-
tors sales! Are not there standing advertisements
Of bOOdhOunds Is not Virginia charaeterisedas the
slaye-breediDg State and can il be denied
The Commercial Press Of this City with ready
contemp, for labor and the rights connected with it,
cannot expect to stulty and degrade the community
by game Of compliments with southern papers. It
may copy and be copied by every mad n tie South bat
that cannot DO away with the fact st Slavery Ia detail
cannot bear the light, and hence the pusilanimous
and defamatory tone Of its defenders wken ia dis
played
] When Mrs. Stowe sailed for Europe, our European
edition contained article the hypocrisy Of the
English biity with their titles and privileges causing
the degradation and distress around them and pretend
ing to feel horror at American Slavery. It wss aimed
at the Dutchess Of Sutherland, who named aud
constituted in fact far it went, the dedication
which The Richmond Enquirer recommends "a an Offset
to Mrs. Stoves Key. What more does The Enquirer
wish corps of able political and social letter-wr
for The Tribune send from Europe notes of all the
aristocratic yianies and popular sueriDgs we sdvo
cate constantly in the manner, in our editorial
columns but then we do not hypocrscay prate about
liberty and slavery, as if they were political Chang.
andEng like The Enquirer and its party do habitualy
Municipal Elections.