Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-02-10

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infinitely worse than that of the poorest la
borer in England. Indeed, it must be so,
as long as a position in which evil is legal
ly inevitable, is worse than than that in
which it may lawfully be avoided. II our poor
are effectuaIIy taught to lay by when they
have good wages, not to marry improviden-
TALLY, not to bring up their children in g-
norance, not to join trade-unions, "a horri-
bic slavery, but selfimposed, } and to guard
against various other things prejudicial to
their well.being and dependent upon them
selves to avoid, their condition will indefi-
ntely improve. No Legislative restriction
SETS any limit to that improvement If
man be not straitened in himself the law
of the land does not strailen him, nor does
any impossible barrier narrow up his ca
reer."
"And in these days of phlanthropic effort,
amid many deporabl, social evils, much
effort, wise and unwise, is making to i'm
part to our poor that knowledge. aud TO
encourage them to tho exercise of that fore
thought, which would give them self:de-
pendence and sef.respect."
Thus writes the Archbishop. His feel.
Ings as good man and as an acute logi-
clan are injured by the mal-practices and
false arguments of the slave party, but he
writes more in sorrow than in anger" and
sincerely wishes them deliverance from the
truly difficult position in which they are
placed.
Since this article was printed, Uacle Tom
hoa
lish dlgnitary, 10 less eminent both by his
services aud honors, than the Archbishop
of Dublin. Lord Denman, the late Chief
Justice of England, has lately been discus
sing and critcising, in IA series of papers
contributed to the London Standard, the
pro-savery articles which have recently ap-
6 peared in Household Words and the Lon
don Times. The Chief Justice defends
Uncle Tom most efficiently, and administers
a telling rebuke to Mr. Dickens and to the
reviewer in the Times.
These papers, six in number, have been
republlshed in pamphlet by the Messrs.
Longman u Co., of London, with a dedi-
catory preface from their illustrious author
to Mrs Stowe. Through the kindness of
friend we have been favored with an early
copy of this dedication which we make no
apology Tor giving in full. We desire to
prefix to it the simple remark, that no
American book has ever YET received such
Distinguished attention from the English
people as this touching contribution;
n ''To Mrs. Harriet Beechcr Stowe.
Madame Some of the friends to the ex
tinctlon of slavery imagine that the cause may
be promoted by publishing some occasional pa
pers, recently sent by me to the Standard Lon
don newspaper. venture to inscrIbe the COL
lection with your honored name.
"Not that you can doubt the complete success
of your noble work ; but wish to bear witness
that the feeling excited is not merely ephemeral
emotion. cannot doubt that it will gain strength
and consistency. as ii commands more attention
and leads to deeper reflection have been de-
lighted to find it making its way in France as
surely as in England, "a Translation furnishing
f the feuiilGte of one of the most popular Partisan
journals, and it subjects the common topic in
public carriages. France appears to say of it
what one of her finest poets said Of the elo-
quence Of one of her greatest orators:-
Ce n'eait point un foudre qui s'egare,
C'etait un glaivo mains de la Veru.'
But in England there are symptom calculated
to mislead First, the open defence of slavery
by some of our most popular and influential wri-
tiers. For the unaccountabie part they have
been induced to take in the great process now
going on between mankind and the owners and
OF and traders in slaves we, the public, feel the
deepest grief, but no alarm as TO the ultimate
result. The influence which has been found
: paramount in so many cases, is in this powerless,
as the withe twisted around the strong mans
arm.
1--WE owe thanks 10 Lord Carlisle, for bring
ing to your notice the only error las far as
know that your book cosialns. You have fully
repaired the Injustice which you had done to
some of our English Institutions but | hope he
will forgive me expressing the great surprise
felt at his comparing your important work with
, some tales OF fiction, popular among ourselves,
which claim no higher end or aim than the
agreeable employment of vacant hour.
= who but rather turns
To heaven'e broad fire his unconstrained view,
Than to the glmerng of a wasen flame?
Who that from Alpine heights his laboringeyc
Darts round the wide horizon, to descry
Minus or Ganges with its wasteful tide
Through Cities States through empire black with shade,
And continents of sand would turn his view
To mark the windings of a scanty rii
That murmurs at his eet!'
"Stlll less should have reckoned the present
a fit occasion Tor euIogslng the works of writers
who are working hard for the maintenance of
slavery.
81 believe that few will think with his lord
ship, that your characters are borrowed from
any other novelist He admits, indeed, that one
is original. If the reader exclaim with astonish-
ment, What only one?' | am disposed to
, answer, No, not one.' Not only Topsy, but
Eliza Harris, who incurs every pain and danger
to save the child from slavery, and the hdpless
purent, who plunges both her infant and herself
III the deep waters, to escape that fate worse
than death, and the agonies Of Uncle Tom and
his heroic patience all are mere copies, but
faithful ones, of the great original, Nature.
"Perhaps it is wrong to ascrbe the Importance
do to the efforts OF proslavery writers, but
cannot record without deep and bitter grief, a
grief proportioned to my respect Tor their general
great merits, my disappointment at the line they
have so Unexpectedly taken, and think of the re.
morse they themselves would feel if they should
be the means of prolongng the life of slavery
one hour. That single hour might give birth to
thousands Of slaves who might have been horn
free, and condemn them TO a life of enforced la
Dor and degradation, and the death of Uncle
Tom
"One Of the most extraordinary topics on
which English writers have chosen to dllate is
the difficulty which American Shareholders would
encounter in the attempt to emancpate the men
and women whom they now hold in bondage
as if those diff .uItes were the result of dlscov.
cries made in London, and had wholly escaped
notice where they are most known-as if it were
necessary to dissuade the miser from parting
with his money or find reasons for convlcting the
usurper that he ought not TO lay down his power
OF all the many thousand English who have
risen from the perusal of Uncle Tom with the
fervent hope that ii may speedily effect the ex-
tinction eff slavery not one believes that it can
be effecled-few think it ought to be attempted
without the supreme authority of the United