Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-09-24
ANOTHER BUBBLE ExpLoDED.


of this country and of England were shouting
N loud chorus of the glory and success of
Uncle Toms Cabin
The Key to that famous edifce soon after
appeared, made up of manufactured advertise
nrn's, Purportins to have been extracted from
obscure or fancied newspapers printed in the
South, in which blood-hounds SCARED backs,
amrutated limbs, and mutilated bodies, figured
ro"sp'cnonSly These, with modicum, per-
haps, OF genuine descriptions emanating from
III" coarse taste Of ignorant overseers- --exeep-
tons and not rules-were given with the addi-
t'"n"l gloss Of a gprurient imagination, rs the
authority on which the facts in "Unele Toms
Cabin were based.
THIS new work with all its disgusting de-
tails, was received with almost as much enthu-
si'lSlh as It's precursor by those whose morbid
and diseased minds, and corrupt, complaisant,
and pharasaica hearts gloated over the real or
imaginary suierings and degradation of 9TH
"rS who We're not burdens on their charity.
n" public was assured that an edition of
nearly half million Of copies had been sold;
ana Mrs. Stowe was placed by ignorant ia
halicS at the head of all the novelists while
Fielding, Smollet, Scott, and Bulwer, were
placed Tar below on humble seats of the syna
gogue They declared that she excelled in the
dehneaton of character, in pathos, discrimina-
'ioh anu descripton--in everything necessary
to render her writings peerless and unap.
! proachable.
Aher realizing a fortune from negro and
I lnuiatto love stories, Mrs. Stowe became ambi-
tious and longed for fame She went TO En-.
rope and her advent in England was hailed as
# she had jast descended from the clouds
Lords, ladies', and committees waited on her,
Offering the most profuse hospitality Public
halls were illuminated in her honor: Lord
Mayors knelt 1t her feet, and the proud nobility
Of Britain FASTENED to pay reverence to the
b'ographer of Topsy Eliza, and Lagree.
Excited and eloquent speeches were address
ed to her; but as she was mo orator as Brutus
was her tongue was mute, and her husband,
with some chance ad juncts, was Obliged to
speak her through. London, Liverpool, Glas.
gov, Edinburgh, and score of less important
places, yielded their allegiance to the genius
which painted Uncle Tom and Casey; and the
emaciated weavers and starving golfers every.
where were ready to kiss the dust from off
the ieet OF her who bemoaned the fate of the
well-fed, weI-clad, well-housed and contented
negroes of the South, without feeling a panp
or shedding tear for their wives and their
children wlo were perishing of actual want
under the palace walls, and almost within view
Of the groanng tables of the great.
Mrs, Stowe enjoyed sort of triumpha pro.
gress through England and Scotland. She was
the pet of the sristocracy, and at first, the un-
known but accredited guardian spirit of the
lowly and forsalen. She passed on to the con-
t'nent, anticipating other ovations and equal !
tributes to her a the matchless apostle of hui
mainly. But the people of Europe had begun
to think Professor Stoves philanthrophy had |
been weighed against the price of linen shirt.
and found wanting The morality of Mrs.
stoves writings was examined more CLOSELY
and the mingled avarice and mischieyousness
of their nims and objects more properly I'M
drrst"od So the spell was broken and the
bubble bursted. She went to the continent
unheraldcd. She stayed UNDECIDED. She left
unnoticcd. Her attendant was arrested and
conveyed to prison, almost in her very pres
erce; and wherever she went she met with only
neglect and indifference. Mortified and crest
fallen she returned to England. The charm
had passed away. Only Lady Sutherland and
a. few fanatics seemed to remember that
she existed In the hey-day of her arrival
in England, she had received large subscrip-
tons and contributions to set free all the slaves
in this country; but these were suddenly
checked, and she was left to brood in silence
over the instability of all human applause She
returned to this country richer no doubt than
when she left, but quietly as any spnster of
humble pretensons.
Mrs. Stowe has had her day. The negro
slang and amopous afinities between quadroon
girls and their masters, which she delighted to
record have grown stale. They already begin
to disgust the public, and will soon be cast
aside as unworthy of the age and disgraceful |
to the taste and morals of all who ever read |
them without loathing and adherence. The
popularity, even for brief space, of Uncle
Toms Cabin, will be a marvel in future times |
and those who may not understand clearly the
horrible purposes and grovelling morality of
abolition fanaticism will be 10th to believe that
it was ever read in the parlor and acted on the
stage in an enlightened and refined age We
are glad to see the reaction taking place so
soon, for we have regarded Mrs. Stoves book,
with its supplementary key, as amongst the
most gross and corrupting of immoral publica-
tons, and as evincing, by its popularity, the
existence of large number of misguided ia
natics, who are hostile to the peace of the coun-