Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-04-29
For the Nashville Patriot
Uncle Toms Cabin.

times on the river above New Orleans,
examining the leyees, and other things,
from the Gulf to the Ohio River, will
thank you and others to let me make some
remarks about some Of the things | saw, ID
your paper it might cause others to ex-
anime them who would say and do some
thing better for them than can. Think
ing that Mrs. Stowe, and others, have
made money enough to do them, by their
big tales and books, and that the cold
winter has moderated the excitement so
that the thinking people in the North
would listen to others, and take a calm
second thought, if / would give them a
chance to make some money by it; for /
found some of them trying to make money,
from all the big tales that were going the
rounds Here is small part Of one Of
those big tales from which it appears they
were making the most money. 1t may be
found in "Uncle Toms Cabin" on page sc.
"For a hundred or more miles above
New Orleans, the river is higher than the
surrounding country, and rolls its tremen-
dous volume between massive levees twenty
feet in height The traveller from the deck
of the steamer as from some floating castle
top. OYerlooks the whole country for miles
and miles around Tom, therefore, had
spread out full before him, in plantation
after plantation, map Of the life to which
he was approaching"
/ say those levees are about five feet
high, and that l will risk a wager Of l, 5,
10, Is, or $40, 600 with Mrs. Stowe or her
friends, that what l say about those levees
is nearer the truth than what she has said,
and | will thank all persons who travel
that way to examine them and to remem-
Der her statements are made in connection
with the name of God and the Holy Bible;
and then think of what she would say
about things that would pass away, and
could not be seen. As for myself, | sup
pose she had pride and ambition for money
and fame and was trying to tell tale that
would lay old mother Ewes name in the
shade, by causing great strife and animOsity
between the people of the North and South
of this great and good Government, which
was made and put in operation by some of
the best and wisest men, and then to war
with each other until we might become the
subjects of others, and when it is too late,
some will think and speak Of what we were,
and what Mrs. Stowe and Others had said
and done to make us as we are or may be.
| hope the good people will think more and
pay less money and respect to Mrs. Stowe
and such F.; they had better go and hunt for
those big levees, and other things, and get
my money, for money is what the most Of
them want for every time and place /
went to see or hear anything about Uncle
Toms Cabin, | had to pay for it, and that
makes me think they had more love for
money than for Uncle Tom and that
induces me to offer them a chance to make
money on their own statements. Is it not
a little strange that she, one of the highly,
should be so familiar and converSant with
the sayings, doings, and ways Of the lowly,
mean and vulgar | think it bad sign,
for l learn by practice. AS she has talent
and fancy to publish such things to the
world, think she might find little of it
nearer home for | was in six State prisons,
and saw about 1000 convicts, male and
female, in the Northern States, and l was
in and around most Of the large towns, and
if | had published all the low, vulgar, dis
graceful things / saw and heard, | think
the better part Of mankind would think and
speak of me as being like q buzzard or
carrion crow that was hunting for mean,
sinking, vulgar things but | thank God
that in my travels | have endeavored to
think and speak Of the better part of what
| saw such as their good schools, rail-
roads, and the like things of general utility;
and to get our people to do as well, and to
let others alone For | think those who
stir up SANDER, i'll will, and strife, where it
does not interfere with them, will find it
like Matching young chickens that will re-
turn home to drop their filth and litter, to
he felt, smelt, and tasted by those who
hatch them, and / think it bad policy to
try to control Others by insults and SANDER;
and if my sisters should quit their domestic
business, and the education of their chill
dren to meddle with men, and their mean,
low, vulgar acts, and the things that be-
long to God, and men, they must look to
others to be their friends and aid, and not
to me.
From some remarks Mrs Stowe makes
in the preface of Uncle Toms Cabin" l
think she expects to he looked upon and
spoken of as a second Moses, and greater
than Queen Victoria, as such would thank
your readers 10 read the second book of
Moses, and Paul to Timothy and Titus,
aud see II she has been acting as Moses
and Paul did / think il would be better
if many Of our God sent people would
think little more, examine themselves
well, and compare their acts with Moses
aud Christ, aud teach the people to pay
more attention and respect to what Moses
and Christ said, and did, and to remember
that God made iron and woman 10 be con-
trolled for good uses and that when they
nrn chnnned from their nroner uses 10