The Yazoo City weekly Whig., 1853-01-28
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s FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1853
!. From the London British Army Despatch.
The Uncle TO1n,s Cabin Mafnia.-
Physician, Heal Thyself.
q We have not revied Uncle Toms Cabin.
chiefly because we felt our views Of the
tendency and nature Of that work TO be SC
hostile that we could scarcely judge Of it in
proper critical manner. We believe it-tc
possess a certain melodramic power, equa1
in npathos to the Green Bushes at Adelphi
and in incident 70 popular novel something
! between the. style of Eugene Sue and Geo
Reynolds. But we believe it alsoito be de-
void Of truth, principle, reality, and that its
tendencies are highly mischievous and de-
trimental to The interests of mankind. In
saying this we entirely acquit its authoress,
Mrs. Stowe. Of any evil desire. any wicked
feeling, or intended falsehood. That lady,
for all we know, may be most excellent,
as she is undoubtedly very talented per-
son. We fully give her credit for good mo-
tives, we doubt not that she believes herself
intrusted with mission, as much as ever
did any '.eminent female. " from Maria Lecs
zinski to Johanna Southcote. We can imag-
inc her to be endowed with an awful sense
of womanhood, and to make--if ever she
condescended to such task. since the se-
oond edition Of her book was sold about
the worst dumplings that were ever placed
upon dirty tablecloth ID slOvenly parlor.
We can imagine that she writes a big
scrawllng hand, with the letters all back
wards, avoiding neatness with pains -taking
precision-her voice is probably harsh, her
attitude imposing. and she viii, or does,
wear her own grey hair in the mother-of-a
nation style. Still we think it great pity
that she did not do anything rather than
what she has done, with all the busy en-
thusiasm of woman in breeches.
When. some time ago, long before the
work was known in England, we chanced
to take it up in the apartment of an Ameri-
can friend, We stumbled upon q passage of
the first force in cant and nonsense It was
in the style of those anti-slavery, African
coast blockade tracts, which we remember
abounded some years since, and which as
sisted in betraying to destruction so many
brave English seamen, and cost the lives Of
so many unhappy negroes. For. it is our
deliberate opinion that more crime, abomi-
nation of every kind, loss Of life and misery.
have been caused, by our Intervention, to
the negro race, than thrice the number Of
years would have witnessed had slavery
been still the law of Europe and al America,
and been allowed its full fling throughout
the civilized world. To avoid our cruisers
what forced marches and confined stoWage
have been adopted How many unfortunate
blacks have been killed by our grape and
round shot? How many put out of the
way to tighten the flying SLAYER. or avoid
detection While We, the philanthropists,
have furnished the slave-monarch, with
arms to take them captive --Brumnagem
guns, pistols, and cutlasses to hunt down
the unfortunate wretches, for whom hypoc-
risy prays, while negIecting the Hindu and
starving the white man! Pliilanthropy, too,
sweatens her tea with slave grown sugar,
half-pennY pound cheapers refined BY ne
gro blood, at the expense Of West India
ploprietors.
How is the cotton raised IT US ask, tllat
supplies the raw material for the white
slaves Of Manchester? All such points a
woman never thinks of, and If she hears
them, cannot understand we viii be bound
there is no peg ID Harriet's head, whereOn
ITO hang an interference. Z She sips her
tea and cries aloud, Is he not man and
brother? But this is pardonable. We
cannot excuse the Duchess of Sutherland
and alI those fine ladies round whom thou
sands Of their fellow -countTy women toiluns
aided- pale daughters Of consumption.
whose threads Of life are woven into the
trumpery lace adorning lhs dazzling bosom
Of female philanthropy st q Drawing room
What are Hood poems compared 70 Uncle
Tom Cabiiig Nothing Wretched incon-
sissency Of conductl Miserable coniradie-
ton Of sympathy What tears must angels
weep at these fanaIical lollies Of mankindg
However. We are strayiug from our insen-
ton. we maintain that this one sided repre-
sensation Is sctealing mischief between Great
Britain and the United States. which moth
ing can remedy. no treaties obxiats, re-
hereafter avoid We xsssr t6s