The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-01

candidate for Congress from his district in
Indiana.
During the early parts of the story, the Era
had denunciations of Daniel Websters speech
at the opening of the Erie Railroad, and an
attack on A. Oakley Hall for slander on Kos
suth, as the poor exile was on his way to our
shores.
After three months this editorial notice ap-
peared:-
Niail nquiring whether Uncle Toms Cabin will be
nub" "shed in book form after its completion in the
Of course hi,'ends to publish it 10 separate
form. When it N't'l be so published, ana wnao nso
win he the price Of it, we DO not Know n noce oi
from the author touching UieSe polp'S nis"' w
service"
Little exuberant notices like this occasion
alIy appeared, but while the merits OF the
story we're manifest to all its readers tne
lady and her friends we're taking care that ~
should have all due attention elsewhere, and
month after it commenced the Bstereotyhers
were working on it for the book.
The novel ran in the Era ten months, and
that paper said on April /, 1S52:-"Mrs'
Stowe has at last brought her work to close
The last chapters appear In this week Oh tne
Era. With our consent, the Boston pub
fishers issued an edition of 5000 on the 2Oth
of March, but it has already been exhausted,
and another edition of 5000 has appeared.
While the story was going on, the h'G was
O free trade, anti-slavery paper, and was llttle
helped by the tariff people anywhere. Inc
New York Tribune said, at one time, while
'Uncle Tom" was running: National
Era is about the most unfair and untlrlng
enemy of the Whig party that we know.
In those days, as now, the free sentiment
of the pioneers in progress embraced free
trade as cardinal maxim. 1t appears by the
files of the Era that Dr. Bailey, pleased with
the writings and conscious of the social in
fuence of Mrs. Stowe, had sent her 500,
with a request to write as good a story for
the amount as she could. Afterwards he sent
her 5000, and finally third payment was
made by mutual agreement. On this literary
occasion Mrs. Stowe involved herself in a
quarrel with the New York Obs6r0Gr, which
accused her of "a libel on the Rev. Joel
Parker, for which that Christian minister had
brought suit against her, laying the damages
at 500. 600. y
Two or three things seem to be evident
about this story-that it grew unconsciously,
and told itself by the same sort of process that
India rubber stretches. The weekly cry for
copy kept the writer up to work. and several
weeks she failed to come to time with her
chapters and also that its business interests
were managed with genuine shrewdness. AS
soon as Mrs. Stove became aware that she
had done a good thing, she turned it into
property, and guarded her title. Fifteen
years before "Uncle Tom Orchard Hill
dreth) wrote "Archy Moore; or, The White
Slave, for which, after fresh labor, he OBJ
tanned a pitiful publisher, and yet he was
able to make up the circulation of this strong
novel during the fever attendant upon
''Uncle Tom, and it became remunerative
to him.
This is the newspaper history of "Uncle
Toms Cabin, for which, next to Mrs. Stowe,
the world is indebted to Gamaliel Bailey,
Doctor of Medicine and Philanthropy-a
Philadelphian.
When DR.. Bailey died, after his gentle life
but stormy career, his widow could have sold
the Era for $4,000. She preferred to con-
tinue it under her own management, and it
speedily went down. Mrs. Bailey is now q
resident of Washington City.