The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-04-30
MRS. STOWE IN ENGLAND.

MRS. STOWE IN EN1LAND n.
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gence of the speeches, dinners """ 30 Co..
s;ons. in honor of the American au'ho'eSs' w.
vs can hardly suppose that she "o"sa "a'o
.,sa,,ea an invitation to go so great o's'
-, became satisfied that her pro-
rress through Europe was 10 feSe"i''' y"
umphal march. In the meah''"'e' "ie '"'o
b.r hoax progresses with rapidly tof "h'ch
:, s,,asetber Impossible TO account. lhere
:..,.;ns in literary history which bears the
ta;,,.st resemblance to its success. Many al
.,,,,,s have been made TO account Tor il, but
,svetwe have seen none that, in our opinion,
anproach the mark. 1t cannot be the bitter
ness of its denunciations, for, in this respect,
il does not equal many of the publications OF
the day which have fallen stillborn from the
press. 1t does not consist in the artistic exc
cution of the work, for, in spite OF all the
world can say and literally, in this case, the
world seems determined to speak out, its lite
rary merits do not entitle it to a very high
rank. Ii cannot be attributed to the truth of
its coloring, for every person who is at all ac-
Quainted with the South, knows that there is
no truth in it. 1t cannon be, as the London
Times suggests, that it is an American work
-awork of purely American origin, express
ing American sentiments, and American fee'
ing, for it is anything else. II is not owing to
the natural tendency of the human mind TO
sympathise with human misery, for in those
very quarters where such misery most abounds
and where it is least regarded, it is most popu-
lar.
Our neighbor Of the Examiner offers q solu.
ton which, though plausible, does not seem
TO US TO go TO the root of the matter. 1t is that
the people of Europe, themselves oppressed,
give TO this book a significance which feeds
the fierce hatred against their oppressors, that
SAUNDERS in their bosoms-that, in other words,
they read in the condition of the slave. as pic
tured by Mrs. Stowe, their own political exis-
tence at this moment. This is ingenious, but
fit were so, why is it that the book is not
more popular on the continent, where there is
no freedom of the press, than it is in England,
where the press is free? The Examiner init.
mates that the book may vet have a political
influence, of which those who most affect it,
little dream. We trust it may be so. We
could almost forgive the aulhoress for her sian.
derous assaults upon people of whom she
knows nothing, could we be assured that her
writings would have the effect of arousing Eu-
rope to a due sense of its wrongs.
For our own part, we profess TO be utterly
unable to account for the singular phenome-
non. The case seems to be like that of the
Tulip mania in Holland, the South Sea scheme
in England, the Mississippi scheme in France,
and the morus Multicdulis fever here. There
appear TO be times when whole nations run
mad, and the slighter the exciting cause, the
more obstinate the ma lady. As long as the
fever continues at its height. reason is utterly
thrown away upon those who are its victims.
When man has once made up his mind to
believe, the more improbable the fiction, the
more stubborn is his faith. 1t is as vain to
argue with him as it is to preach reason to q
confirmed lunatic. So it is with communities.
They appear to delight in occasional madness.
and not to be very choice in the subject
Provided they have some thing to grow crazy
about, it is all they ask and they care not
whether it be Joanna Southcote, or father Mil
Ter, or Joe Smith, or Kossuth, or Uncle Tom.
The course of the English press, with re-
gard 10 this matter, has appeared to us ex-
tremely singular. Surely the conductors of
that press, when they either openly applaud
or condemn after such fashion, that the con-
demnation looks much like praise, cannot
soish to see accomplished that general aboli-
ton which Mrs. Stowe pretends so deeply to
affect. They are, generally, men of sense and
men acquainted with the bearings of all great
political questions upon the interests of their
own country. They cannot, therefore, really
desire to see the cotton culture cut up by the
roots. They cannot wish TO see several mil
lions of their fellow citizens, who live by the
cultivation of cotton, turned out to starye, or
TO overturn the British Government. Yet such.
they must know, would be the effect of the
abolition of slavery in this hemisphere. Thew
have TOO much sense to be duPed by the shall
low philosophy of such rose water philantbro.
plsts as the Duchess of Sutherland and her
clique OF fine ladies. They know that at tbe
very moment when they issue their bulletins.
they are clad from head to foot in the producta
OF slave labor, and are themselves the greatest
encourages of the system, by DEALING most
largely in the materials created by the slave.
ihey can hardly-though their conduct has
oeen sometimes SO singular that we could &C.
count Tor 1t on no other hypothesis-desire te
ioment sectional quarrels in this country
winch must lead TO the prostration of labor il
areat Britain. Their object, if they have any
Is as unlntelligible as the Uncle Tom mania
We always feel a certain degree of respec
iof the opinions of a person who is earnest il
what he says, and that notwithstanding the,
may be iraught with mischief For Mrs
oto"e we have no such feeling. She has spec
uisted upon the negro, as decidedly as the bod
snateher who was tried here some years ag
Tor robbing the African graveyard and selin
the subjects 10 the doctors. Nay we hol
the part acted by the resurrectionist to hay
been much the more respectable of the two
He could plead, in excuse, an important Sc,
vice rendered to the most important of bums,