New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-02-21

and most esteemed citizens, would be listened
to with respect and Difference. Let US then
have such meeting, and express the desire
practical manner. Who will head the call
UNCLE TOM on HIS TRAVELS.
Europe has achieved the luxury of a new
sensation in the reception and digestion of
Mrs. Stoves great work. Our militia gener
ais on professional tours of observation among
the fortresses of Flanders and on the lines of
the Adige and Mincio are as much perpleIed
and annoyed by the Uncle Tom farore as they
would be if required to draw lines of crcum-
valuation or distinguish lunette from an es.
carpment. Even our Diplomacy stands aghast
at the rushing, swelling food of Uncle Tomsm
which is now sweeping over the Continent,
writes home indignant circumstances against
Americans disgracing their country by telling
any but the other sort of truth about it, and
sorrowfully admits that the counterblasts to
Uncle Tom, so deliberately pulled in our Cot
ton journals, make no more impression on the
Christian sentiment of the Old Word than
would pOpgun brOadside on the walls Of Glib
raltar. Even the labored replies of sundry
squads of American ladies to the Stafford
House Appeal are VIGOROUSLY felt not to have
touched the right spot, whence the necessity
realized for perpetually renewing and multi
plying them. Unless Mrs. Julia Gardiner Ty-
Ter, or some equally ambitious imtatOr, shall
hereafter cOntriye to Guido all that has yet
been done. the verdict of Europe will be all
but unanimous that Silence would have served
the cause Of American Slavery better than any
Speech ELECTED by the Duchess's memorial.
Meantime, Uncle Tom shines in every fcuit-
Teton, rests ON every comfortable, and faces the
foot.lights Of every stage. The despots and
feudal robbers are sOothed and gratifed by the
contemplation ola form of injustice and OPP
preston more fragrant and shameless than
their own. The CURRIERS' and gamins of Paris,
chatting under the sense Of their own enslave-
ment and degradation, crowd the theaters TO
marvel at the spectacle Ofa man bidding at
slave auction for his own wife or daughter
against the coarse and tipsy ruffian who has
fixed lecherous eyes upon her, and to whose
unbridlea Will the law Of the land inexorably
consgns her in case he bids a dollar more for
her than will Cor cam be given by the compel
itor who has been moved By the husbands woe
to bid in his behalf IF this is Democracy"
say the gamiRs obviously, the despotism of
our head burglar is not so bad after all: if
this is Republican purity, our Emperors lewd
and shameless Court is relatively decent.
Foul as it is, it has never yet resorted to
legal constraint or outright violence in pur.
: suit OF licentiOus qualification"
There can be DO doubt that not merely the
American name but the cause Of Human Free
dom has temporarily suffered in Europe By the
exposures Of Mrs. Stoves book. If il were
understood there that our most fanatically
slsve-holdiDg State (South Carolina) was
likewise the most unanimously and intensely
Democratic, according TO our binding party
designations, the marvel and the reyulsion
might be still greater. But this sickness is
not unto death The freedom of investiga.
tion and discussion which true Democracy At.
firms but which Slavery systematically SUBJ
verts, viii YET dissolve the monstrous fabric
ofiDjustice and inevitable vice whereupon our
Southern brethren insist on repOsing. In
spite of Gag-laws and Cotton prescription. in
spite Of our drugged Pulpit, fettered Press and
debauehed Politics, Slavery shall vet silently
melt away in the sunshine of Christian Truth
and Republican principle, ard ours become in
reality, what il Row is in name, Nation of
Freemen.
Meantime the devices for counteractng the
untOwsrd effect of Uncle Tom in European
conceptions of America are alike numerous
and futile. The latest that has attracted our
notice originates with yirginian. ardent
for Office IS Southern sun can make him
who periodically suggests thar President
Pierce should I'll al the Foreign Embassies of
any consequence With Southeners, to enable
them to counteract officially and efficiently.
the baleful influence of Mrs. Stowe. work.
We do not feel sure that this prescrip
ton, if administered, would prove eficacious.
Punch, We remember, in the time Of the Pot.-