New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-22
New York Cotton Market.
What do you Think of Uncle Toms
Cabin ~

That is the question before which all other
fade into comparative insignfcance. Are W.
to have another war with Mexico lis the Will,
party dead, or only playing 'possum are thu
| spiritual manifestations to be considered as
new revelation, or humbug are all qucs
tons Of minor Importance; but lchat do goi
| think of " Encie Toms Cabin p is one o
vital interest to the people of the South in gen
eral, and the Directors and Teachers of the
Public Schools in particular, In order to answer
it, those who have never read the book must Il,
so at once How else can there be either CUES
ton or reply Grammars, Biographies, arith
metics, histories, etc, are to be laid aside by
all connected with our Public Schools, and they
are to rush to the book stores purchase The
book, and set themselves diligently to its per-
usal, or reperusal. We advise the booksellers
to send instantly by telegraph for fresh sup
ply, lest they should be unable to meet the de-
mand,
We also advise any enterprising citizen, who has
time to spare and q wish to make money rap
idly, to write book vilifying the American
nation at large, and heaping opprObium on some
. peculiar institution" If he succeeds in ma
king his book tolerably interesting, he has only
to get the press 10 abuse it. and secure the SER
vices Of Precaution as an agent and he will be
sure 10 realize an immense fortune rs quickly Ms
Mrs Stowe has. Violent vituperation is the
most successful kind of putting that book can
receive. 1t rOuses curiosity every body he
comes anxious to read that which is so strongly
condemned. The blood of our first parents rises
high in our veins, calling on us to eat the for
hidden fruit. So with the book in question
Persons who have read a few pages and then
laidit aside as uninteresting have subsequently,
on reading scorehing article against it, re-
sumed its perusal, observing, 60 1t must be worth
reading or the newspapers from A to Z, would
not make such talk about il"
Why Precaution would limit his nterroga-
tons to teachers, unless with view to creating
a vacancy, we are loss to conjecture Why
not appoint officers to i" interrogate'' every cit
izen, and establish quarantine to prevent the
entrance of persons who are afflicted with the
Stowe fever into our city Look to it We men,
bers of the City Council, if We would prove your
title TO the name of g true Southerners 81
Bat, let us be serious, and examine . Precau-
tion's" argument, if such it may be called
lie assumes rs self evident that all admirers Of
or rather all who do not reprobate Uncle
Toms Cabin are rank aboliti0uists, who would
use all their influence against slavery and slave
holders; and infers that the best means to de-
tect the traitors is 8 to interrogate' suspected
persons on the subject.
If We admit his premises, what becomes of his
conclusion /" for, of course, characters so vile as
to STIR up revolt among the slaves-incendia-
who would send murder stalking
over the land, would hardly deteat then, object
6y telling the truth. s. Interrogation is not
the pill to purge abolitionism from the public
system. Try it again, Preeaution.'