Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-04-05
EVENING STAR.
WASHINGTON:
Uncle Tom I'm England.

pauSS throughout tue CHue0 AlnSuom, Sch
orally, will now have "ample scope and
verge enough" for displaying their sickly
sentimentalities, and nursing their in bred
hate of this Republication Mrs. Stowe has
gone to England. She left, with an appro-
pirate retinue, in the last packet from Bos-
ton, after having been duly honored by
visit from the distinguished editor of the
National Era of our city.
The Boston Bee, in some excellent remarks
on the subject of Mrs Stoves foreign tour,
says:
"The crowned heads, the ingenious pc.
tentates, the heartless oppressors, the chain
making despots affirm that Uncle Toms
Cabin has aided more in checking the dom
mating spirit for li,erty among the masses
in Europe, than any one agent that has OPP
Grated in half a century. Governments had
become weakened, power lacked its ancient
force, station was losing its homage and
even its respect for the people. King
and despots felt that danger was at hand.
The masses were dissatisfied. On another
side Of the ocean was free and indepen-
dent land; land where oppression was
not known. With such vista in the mind.
the breasts Of the masses moved aud year
ed to have a government like this among
themselves, or to seek one on the Western
shores. They murmured, and threatened,
and the seeds of revolution, as we all know
were planted anu had begun to grow. But
Uncle Tom in good time came t, the res
cue. Its portraits Of cruelty, more painful
than monarchy could show; its deeds OF
lust, OF outrage Of every sort, Of even blood
and death, were 81 read broadcast among
those who desired the new form of govern.
ment. The murnurs ceased. Republican,
ism was a most foul thing-hut an ins,ru-
ment of torture. The despot breathel easy
and smiled.
cit is claimed for 6 Uncle Toms Cabin"
par eminence, that its mission was that OF
Freedom and Humanity. AS it appears to
us, and as facts prove, it has turned out
Freedom or Humanity-but irremediaby
injured them both. 1t has injured the slave
beyond account. 1t has forged new chain
for oppressed. 1t has put a new heart into
the foreign despot. 1t has stabbed the ri>-
ing hope Of republcaniSm in the old world
1t has misrepresented our people, our Gus
toms, our government. 1t is gross carri-
cature on the Institution of slavery. AL
though it may present many scenes in the
life Of the slave it yet selects such as by no
means represent faithfully and truthfuIly
the whole institution itself. 1t has pickles
out here and there picture of cruelty, and
wrong anil oppression, in all cases from
hearsay, and by the weavings of an active
imagination, has wrought cut q novel, rs
free from truth as those which pretend to
none"
This is true picture-and we thank tn.
editor of the Bee for drawing it SO we'll
Aud We have no doubt all the readers of the
Star will thank us for copying it.
The fact is calculated to excite the warm
est Indignation that our country and our
country men are to be injured abroad by this
carricature of Mrs. Stoves. For, let people
say what they will, let them vice. over " hat
is touching in EVA" and real in "Uuc'e
Tom" as much as they may, it cannot be
denied by any candid person that Mrs.
Stoves book is novel, "a fiction, q carrica.
ture. 1t is work of the Imagination, the
fancy, the feelings 1t mains just enough
of truth to touch the sympathies, while in
its leading features it slaLders our nation,
misrepresents history, and engenders the
bitterest animosi,ies. 1t breathts an un-
charitable and unlovely spirit, the unbrid'ed
indulgence Of which Mrs Stowe herself will
yet deeply regret. The day is coming when