The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-04-27
Kcy to Uncle ro,n,s Cabin.

This long and anxiously looked for work, fl ON
tbe pen Of Mrs. Stowe, is at length published
We tender acknowledgements to Messrs.
Jewett, Proctor and Wo, Ellington for copy of it.
This work will produce profound sensation in
this apd in other countries The disquisiton fthe
author upon the present position cf the American
Church, must serve 10 open the eyes of thousands
as to their true relations and responsibilities We
regard " Uncle Toms Cabin" and the s. Key to
UncIe Tom Cabin as powerful ns:rumentalities
in the hands of Divine Provi lence for overthrow
ing slavery. and for stripping away from it, the
shield and protection long thrown around it, by
tho American Church Not long can the church
maintain its present position; it must yield before
the concentrated, and justly Indignant and scornfu
| sentiment of the world Mrs. Stoves Fiction
founded upon facts. and her Facts stranger than
fiction must be largely influential in over.hrowina
the accurseL system.
Wesiike the intelligent and candid notice of the
N. Y. Tribune. and we adopt it and insert it as
f.Iows:
KEY TO UNCLE TONS CABIN. By HARRIET
BEEcHER SrowE. vo. PIP. 262 Boston
John p. Jewett; Cleveland. Jewett, Proctor &
Wor!hington.
Mrs. Stowe has been accused of depicting the
evils of Slavery in the coers of romance. 1t has
been alleged that the statements in Uncle Tom
Cubin" not only fictitious in form, but in reali-
ty. The South, it has been supposed, is treated
unjusty in that wonderful production The s:o-
ry is based not on fact, but imagination. Those
who have listened TO such charges will find them
amply refuted in the present volume. 1t shows
that, far from ygetating the hideous features
which she describes, Mrs. Stowe might have dar.
kered the picture by far deeper shades of cruelty
aad oppression. The facts and documents on
which the story is founded are here set forth
The truthfulnesa Of the work is confirmed BY
striking collateral evidence, from a variety o
sources.
In addition TO the main topic of the work, ex
planning the materi ,ls of the pot of"Uncle Toms
Cabin" it contains full discussion of the legal re-
laions Of slavery, the domestic slave trade, and the
influence of tho American Church on Slavery
The details the volume possess profound inter
est They are marked by admirable aense, a,
well as by deep and earnest feeling. In treating
tho subject, although the words of Mrs. S owe
often scorch to the bone, she deals less in deuGpc
| alton thnn in facts. This is one secret of hei
| power. She never writes in wraihful spirit, bu
always preserves the Christian tone of Tenderness
towards the uphoIders Of the worst systems. He,
sfarpest arrows are winged with loye. OF al
modern reformers. she is the most faithful to the
demands ofCblistian charity and justice. She look.
to the exercise of religious principle in legislation
and III social customs, tho most effeetual moan.
for the removal of tho evils which she coinbats
Her appeals TO the church may perhaps leave ,
sting in the hearts of many, a diseased epot il
touched while others no doubt will be provoked
to repentance and quickeped to now lfo by ihe
stern but wholesome urgency.
For Salient HALLS Book STORE, Ravenna, Ohio