New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-18
Uncle Toms Cabin a Two-Bdsed sword.
From the ATLANTA (Ga) Republican.


So much has been said and written with regard 10 incl
Toms Cabin and such deal Of noise aud contusIon
made relative 20 its mOnroses that we were induced
lately to give Il a reading We had been prepared TO fnd
every slave owner turned into end monster andevery
Aboitonist rendered saint; but not with the excep-
ton Of few characters and incidents which are served up
according the license Of true fiction, II portrait hon
CRADLE 20 saveOwners aud rebukng 10 the crocodile sym
pathes Of aboitonism II is emphaticay, TO our mnd
two edged sword, cutting both ways And It Is quite APP
narent 10 US that Mrs Stowe must have been much
astonhed at the character In which has been viewed ~
if il had been taken for dissertation on the principles OF
Phrenoogy and much more than she would have been 70
see it taken up by tae clergy as missionary work.
For Just true and impartial sketch of Slavery as Is.
she first introduces TO the estate Of Mr. Shelby where
Uncle Toms Cabin is found just in the condition that one
may be almost every plantation in the South In
this sketch she shows conclusivey that she Is moi pnac
quained with the domestic relations Of Slavery and the
good feeling existing between masters and msresscs ana
their servants aud with what love and yeneraton chIdro
look up the old negroes and with wha; love and kind
ness their childish attentions returned Had Mrs Stowe
been as ignorant Of these relations as was MISS opneH
have drawn life like picture OF Slavery as is to be seen
almost everywhere as she did at Mr.. sheIbys
Equally true 10 the life she, when she drew the
ist in The person Of Miss Ophela fresh from Vermont.
Brm full Of Aboliionism and she believed Of religion
and missionary spirit to boot she could make no ALLOW
held them in such perfect horror that she would have
touched snake toad as soon while the simple child
Eva better nursed in the pecuares Of the negro char
acte and filed with more real humanity bensvoence aud
Christian charity taught the self wied and precise,
fef relying and dogmatc 0phea how to govern by love
and also the greater exercise Of true charity and beneyo
lence.
That she intended for an antSavery work IS not at
tempted 10 be concealed but evident that she intended
IS Missionary, rather than incendary publication,
and that her wrought characters Of Lee and some
others attributable 10 her desire 70 make novel, more
than any real desire TO misrepreseEt Slavery as il exists
among u.s. IL il had been otherwise, she certainly never
would have introduced us to such family In all respects,
as the Shebys much less 10 the 0verindulgent ~ Clair,
who seems have had whatever for any OF his scr
wants and who purchased Iopey merely for the fun OF
maintaining educating aud setting her free.
Mrs Stowe never be sufficiently grateful 10 Southern
journalists for the uDexamped popularity of her book As
novel II Is at best but Of the second class. while Il must
rank still love the estimation Of the unpreudced when
viewed in the light al anything bnt novel II view u
as work against Slavery find portions Of il too fnci
full for serious belief; while at the same time, presents
also the sunny side Of the picture In minority instances.
and administers timely rebuke upon the msdreced phi
Ianthropy Of the AbOonst But for want Of something
else 10 sgtate about has been written into importance,
and the fame and fortune Of the writer are made.