Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-04-16
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Tao Key.
sst1ursn Tons Cabin" was originally wr1ueh ny
Mrs Stowe to illustrate general features !" 'e
system of slavery, and it printed IN Inc Nauo"
al Era newspaper. Il was evident, from its eafter
h.,,srs that Mrs Stove. did not consider her story
oeiInc,e Tom tc Ire great work" Wo doast IL
.he lad any in,eniion to repubish Il FROM the Era,
,,;, ,hp recommendations and pe,iIious OF the readers
ortbA, pas,cr induced her to think aSoutd But the
,,ok grew insensbiy onder the aczhor's pen, and it
,e npon The tyariesl affections Of It's readers,
Il; a, Lac, ii became the greatest book Of the age,
bo,b as matter q ,sade, and source Of emo
,on and feeling U,rote Toms Cabin is work OF
s.,;ons !, * ! sterv> The characters not real
o,t,,;as. RE incidents had no special existence
Nevsrthe,e4s, the book is true. Ii is ~o'S OF art,
the details ct which arranged and disposeu ac-
craiaT se the imagination Of the artist, but which Is
nevertheless true in every essential particular II
. bis,o,;cal word picture, painted from life. 1t u.
lps,ra,es condition Of society in which there are
thousands Of Haleys, Legrees, Topseys, Casey',
George HAIRLESS, Elizas and few St Clares; and
is in consequence Of It's general character, truer ex-
position OF slavery as it is, than many stories which
are facts as far they 60, bat which do not tell so
much Of the truth as Uncle Tom does. B whole-
some truth is the most unwelcome medicii that can
he administered to those who subsist upon system
Of rank injustice and outrageous wrong IL does not
matter whether that truth IS modified and someW hat
polished by the artists skill stif it is abomina
ton to them; and they hate it. Uucle Toms Cab
in is fictitious story, doub but Is true IN er-
sence, and hence the denuncatons that were hurled
against it BY the friends of slavery They called
il a fiction This was true in a sense, and was ad.
mitted by the author. They next advenured TO call
il false, exaggerated, and antaNical," and the key
lust published. is an answer TO those charges.
Those bunker editors, such as our neighbor Of
Egis, who have been in the habit Of calling I'M
Gle Toms Cabin an exaggeration, have now an
opportunity Of examining the studies, as they say
in artist phrase, from which the finished picture
is composed 1t is said that Dubuie's Eve was a
study from thirteen models, and our bunker critics
will find that more than that number of prototypes
stood as representatives Of Haley, Legree, and
those other Southern gentlemen, who constitute
the dramatis persona of Uncle Tom; and they
Will hnd also that Uncle ON ana OeorSe HaTIl'
are not exaggerations. The Key to Uncle Tom
Cabin is much more literal book than its prede
cessor. The inventive genius Of the author
not permitted 10 irradiate the gloom and shado'
Of its stern realities, with scenes and incidents
soothe the feelings and please the Imagination
all is real, and sad and solemn is the feality. w
hope this work will obtain as wide clrculaiio
as the story Of which it is the basis. 1t probabl
will not please people 50 much as Uncle Tom DIG
but we think it will direct their minds more TO
chilly to the question of slavery as reality, ar
it will arouse them to action on that question:
Uncle Tom prepared the way for this book
opened the soil for It's reception and now it 60
forth TO put living anti-slovery faith and livi
anti-slavery principles in millions of hearts; a
to confound the diabollcaI system Of which it
an e5nespEe, john Keith & Co., Crandall
xu99S' "" AiVermoFe, have The book far q,
we rust that It's contents will snor =
Cabin.