Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-01-14
UNCLE TO1T,s CABIN.

This extraordinary book is finding its way into
every Kingdom and Empire in Europe. 1t has
already been translated into nearly dozen foreign
languages, and its sale every where meets with
unparalleled success. In some portions Of Europe,
where before American book was scarcely ever
read, the demand for Uncle Toms Cabin has been
earnestly excited. 1t is read by the nobility the
middling classes, and the peasantry. The inter
est in the book does not seem to have at all aba
ted; the English papers continue to be laden with
reviews and notices of the work, and all sorts of
editions, from the most expensive to the cheapest
possible, are advertised.
! his book appears not only TO be read and ad-
mired by men of all political parties in Great Brit
ain but by those of different religious interests
Protestants and Catholics help to give it circula
ton. AS an evidence that the book is not rerar
ded as the property of any particular religious par
ty in Great Britain, we give a few extracts from
an ably written review of Uncle Toms Cabin.
! published i'll the Tablet" a talented and inHuen
tial Catholic paper in the city of Dublin. The
writer, after detailing the leading incidents con-
tanned in the book, concludes that it contains no
great exaggeraton of the condition of Society in
the slave states. In view of the evils depicted in
the book the writer says:
"These are all denominations against which the
Catholic Church has ever protested and if such a
book as this has the practical effect of awakening
the public conscience of the southern states to such
enormities, we welcome that effect as we shrink
with horror from the notion of defending or pallia-
ting them
On the subject of the institution, with all its
nameless and unniitgated wrongs, the review goes
on to say:
'1s it right to fog slaves within an inch of their
life to send women to the whipping house to be
indecently chastised by men TO sell women when
the vender knows the sale is to consign them to
the Vllest purposes to tear the wife from the hus-
band the babe from the mother all these things
are eternally wrong"
The review proceeds to show that Christianity
has always been antagonistic to slavery; that the
church from the earliest ages has been the enemy
of chattle servitude, and has ever lifted its voice
for its extngushmcnt. But we hasten TO give one
more paragraph, to show that the scctarian char.
acter, which has in many quarters been charged
to the book, is not SO Objectionable on the other
side of the Atlantic:
Our readers cannot fail to be struck with a
tinge of Catholicity which appears in " Uncle
! Toms Cabin although the amable authoress at
tcmpts to invest Methodism with attributes and
powers which belong TO the Catholic Church alone
Uncle Tom evidently ought to have been a holy
Catholic. If You take away the McthodiStica
twang and the Protestant notion of making every
thing turn on reading the Bible, the whole idea O.
his character is Catholic. The element of yicari
GUS suffering, the continual reference to the idcn
LITIGATION of his fortunes with those of Our LORD
on the cross, the immense pity of the victim fol-
the OppresSor, the holy and blessed calm pcrvadina
his soul as the time of his agony begins to wear
away; in particular the vision of Our Lord crown
cd with thorns and suffering His Passion--aI thi:
is intensely Catholic, and if it ever found in
a soul outside of the Church. would only show that
Divine grace was operating on that soul to lead il
to the True Fold, the home and haven of peace
We doubt if Mrs. Stowe has given this colorng
to the book unconsciously, because of the quota
ton of the Dies Ira at ST. Glars deathbed ant
another passage, where Classy, or one of the poo
manglcd slave women at the plantation, speaks o
what the Nuns at the Convent where she was bro
up, told her about the day of Judgment
: "lf Mrs. Stowe Intentionally borrowed Catho
lie ideas to make up her picture, it was an unfair
treatment of the subject if otherwise, we gladl,
recognize so beautiful and touching an approxima
ton which we hope may lead her and her ProteS
tant readers to become almost and altogethe
Catholics at last"
With the earnest and hopeful conclusions of tht
able writer in the Tablet, are not to speak O
now. The reader will notice in this last extrac
the pleasing evidence that this remarkable bool
contains traits of character which commend them
selvcsto the approval Of those holding widely diff
ferng religious faiths. 1t will, therefore, have tn
advantage of wider and moro overwhelming in
fucnce to watt it to every land and nation-to b.
read in every country where there is litetatur
and written language.