The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-07-28
Mrs. Stowe Abroad.

The excitement in England and Scotland upon
the arrival of the Authoress of ''Uncle Tom
Cabin was evidently immense judging from
the tone of the journals across the water. But,
alas poor woman she has been taught to feel
the truth Of the poets words, ''we know what
we are, but know not what may be" She
had bancuets given her by lords and ladies OF
high renown, where toasts were offered her, to
which her husband responded; compliments
were showercd upon her by the literati the
suffering needle-women Of Londonhad subscribed
their hard earnings to present her with some
testimonial of regard; she Was ''the observed of
all observers; when, suddenly, the Queen refused
to receive her at court; then ''in the swapping
of gun,'' as the Bowld Soger Boy would say,
her clamorous friends disappeared. Lo, how
are the mighty fallen. The Philadelphia Bullet
IN has the following sensible article upon the
rise and fall of Mrs. Harriet Beecher (S)toe,
since the writing Of which she has left Paris for
Genoa to recruit her shattered nerves and
health. Better had she come to the noun
tains.
s'The triumphal progress of Mrs. Stowe abroad
appears to have shared the fate of such ovatioEs
elsewhere. What Dickens, in fact, experienced
here, she has experienced in England. Both,
to use trite, but apt smle ''went up like rock
cts, to come down like sticks" The author of
''Oliver Twist welcomed, at New York,
with ball, where the huzzaing equaled that of
Tammany Hall, or Westminster hustings; but
a very few weeks subsequently he left the coun
try, ''solitary and alone,' with not even news
boy to cheer at his departure. Mrs. Stowe has
met an even more rapid eclipse. In the case of
Dickens, satiated public curiosity, combined
with some disgust at the under-bred manners of
the visitor, led to the sudden collapse from heat
to cold. In the case of Mrs. Stowe similar
satisfied curiosity has contributed to the same
result. But main cause of her rapid decline,
if the whole truth must be told, lies in the fact
that Queen Victoria not only refused to receive
her at court, which at once put her out of the
pale of fashionable society, but censured Lord
John Russell for having, while 4 minister of the
crown, appeared at the Stafford House levee.-
The frown of royalty seems to have extinguish-
| ed the Stowe fttrore at once. From the day of
the fatal evee or rather as soon as the exclusion
became known the eulogistic notices of Mrs.
| Stowe and even almost all account of her move
ments, suddenly disappeared from the London
press. In an hour, as it were, the authoress of
| t'Unce Tom fell from popularity to insignifi-
canoe. At present she is quietly residing in
Paris, the guest of Mrs Maria Weston Chapman,
formerly of Boston, Garrsonite of the most
jealous school, who, like many others of the tip
| top aristocracy' of this country, thinking her
daughters cannot De educated IN america, mas
gone to the French capital to polish them Off
in that moral and religious city. So little notice
was taken however of Mrs. Stoves movements,
after the fatal rebuff from the Queen that we
should have been ignorant of her being in Paris,
but for private statement to the editor of a
New York journal.
/ The visit of Mrs. Stowe abroad should be a
lesson to those, who like the son whom Noah
cursed, rejoice in exposing their father-land to
shame Whether it viii be, however, is another
| question. But surely the spectacle of Dukes
and Duchesses performing ko-tou to Mrs. Stowe,
because she abused her native land, yet aban-
doning her the moment she became unfashiona-
BILE, because not received at court, is sight that
ought to teach wisdom even to the most Stubborn.