Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-06-03

speeches at banquets, or give penny offerings, or
sing peans to novel writer's, or to "glower' into
Ms. Stoves carriage, are all much easier than to
solve this question.
After ali, too, what has Mrs. Stowe done that
she should be so suddenly turned into a Diana oil
Epheslans2 Has she ever etnhncipated a slayea.
Has she ever contributed solitary one hundred
dollars out of the many thousands which have
been poured into her pockets to help some SON of
bondage to purchase his freedom? Has the book,
which has given her so wide a fame, led to any.
measures which will in any way meliorate the
condition Of the slayes2 or is it probable that such
will be thegresult? She has drawn many tears
from sentimental young ladies'; she has set staid,
quiet men to uttering such excavations against the
South that their families have wondered what was
the matter with them; she has led eexcelentsold
ladies, who had been wont to call the very name
novel" with pious horror, TO real, her novel, and
laugh and cry over it as much as anybody; she has
had putting enough from the newspapers to have
made small hurricane; she has lined her pockets
with money; she has gone on transatlantic tour,
Tree of expense; she has been feted and ,feasted
by throngs of foreigners, who have received her
| as II she were almost more than human; and yet
what has she donel One would think that she
must surely have broken all the Christen
dom; and yet she has not emancipated a single
slave; she has only written successful romance.
so far as any tangible good,is concerned, we have
yet to learn it. She IS neither Wilberforce, a
Howard, Mrs. Fly, nor Miss Dix. Indeed, we
have known many southern STAKEHOLDER do in
comparably more for the slave than Mrs. Stowe
probably ever WILL do if she should live to Methu-
selah's age; and still they have never had their
names blazoned abroad for it, had their pockets
lined with money-but contrarywise emptied-nor
received free tickets for European tours, nor been
banquetted and presented with silver salyers On
the other hand, their names have either been I'M
known, or, IN common with the whole class to
which they belong, they have been vilifed by the
very lips which are now singing hosanhas to Harriet
Beecher Stowe. We think it would be well for the
public to think on these things little-at least
when they have done flinging up their hats over
Uncle Toms Cabin. =. 80 s''-'
The longer we look at inject tl.L more fully
we are convinced that the best friends of the slave
are the jewellers in his own South. Iu that South
are those who are received a poor, naked savage,
fresh from Africa and the horrors of the middle
passage; they have taken charge Of Ills children
In infancy, and provided for him in helpless old
age, have taught him a Savior's name, and been
instrumental in shedding abroad in his heart a
| Savlours love, and preparing him for crown and
a kingdom in heaven. whole nation of his
| people has grown up here, and, under the genial
influence OF southern homes, they have been ele-
waited from barbarlsm to civilization and Christian
ization with rapidity and 10 an extent to which
history showGs no parallel A part Of his peopl.
have gone back to Africa, bearing with them The
priceless treasure of the Gospel-a compensation
ample for all their hardships; more of them are
going to join those already there; others 10 CO.
and what is to be the final result will be known
perhaps, in that day when Ethiopia shall stretch
forth her hands unto Col. In all this process Of
eleyating in the mass whole people from barbar
lansm, whose hands have piled the lever but those
southern men? Who have had the responsibility,
care, yexation, expense. even to the impoverisl,-
menl of their lands and their families, but thu
people Of the South? We believe that God in hi.
providence Is working oft q mighty wonder 10
Atricas sons, both in their own and in this land
through what, for the time, seems m evil, ant
that the final development will be full of Joy ant
Igladness; and the results will then be traced tc
their right sources, when Uncle Toms Cabin shall
have ctumbled to the dust, and Mrs. Stowe name
her silver salyer, aud her British banquets are re
membered no more.