The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1879-06-12

AH4 Aepuiuks mat shook Der HAfot. Sh
haslened home and wrote Il, apd be
husband being away, sbe read 4 10 be
two sous d ten and Twelve years Of age
The little fellows broke oai laio conYul
sions oi weeping, one Of them saying
through bis sobs, 0Al mamma, slayerl
Is The mosi cursed thing in tie world
From that time The story can less be ssi,
20 hsve been composed BY her than im
posed upon her. Scenes, ineidents, con
versaiions rushed npon ber With q vivid
ness and importantly that would not b
denied. The book insisted upon Retiinl
Itself iuto being, aud would take no De
nial. After the two or three flSi chap.
tiers were written, she wrote 10 DIR. Bal
ley OF the National Era that she wal
planning story that might probably
run through several numbers OF the Bro.
In reply, she received an instant sppllca.
ton for il, aud began immediately 70
send of weekly instsllments. She wa:
then 10 the midst OF heavy domestic cares
with a young infant, with a number OF
pupils in her family to whom she was
implrdng daily lessons with her own
children, aud with unframed servants
requiring constant supervision, but the
story was so much more intense reality
to her than any other earthly thing, that
the weekly iDstallment never failed. II
was there In her mind day and night
waiting to be written, and requiring but
few moments to bring Il into visible
characters
THE AUTHORS pEsPoNDENcY.
AS the story progressed, young pub
Usher, }. L. Jewett, OF Boston, sci bis
eye upon it, and made overtures for the
publication OF it in book form, TO which
she consented. After while she bad
letter from him, expressing his tears that
she was making the story too long for
oue-volume publication. He reminded
her that it was an unpopular subject
That one short volume might possibly
sell, but If it grew to two il might prove
4 fatal obstacle to its success. Mrs.
Stowe replied that she did not make the
story, that the story made itself, and that
'he could not stop it till it was done. The
ceiling that pursued her increased in in
ensity TO the last, till with the death o I
Jncle Tom it seemed as if the whole !
'ital force had LETT her. A feeling OF
,rolouDd encouragement came over her.
Would any body read it? Would anybody |
isten! Would this appeal, into which
he had put heart, soul, mind, and
trength, which she had written with her
eart's blood = would il, to-, go for
othing, rs SO many prayers aud groans
nd entrealies Of these poor suffering
ouls bad already gone?
Uncle Toms Cabin was published
larch 20, 1852. The dependency OF the
utbor MS to the question whether any
ody would read or attend 10 her appeal
'ss soon dlspeled. Ten thousand copies
'ere sold in a few days, and over three
undred thousand within year, aud
ght power presses, running day and
ight, were barely able 10 keep pace with
le demand for it. IL was read every
here, apparently, and by everybody,
nd she soon began TO hear echoes of
1mpathy all over the land. In one re-
)ect, her expectations were strikingly
ltlerent from the fact. She had painted .
aveholders as amiable, generous, and
st. She had shown examples among ,
em of the noblest and most beautiful
ats Of character; had admitted fully /.
eir temptations, their pelplexities, and
cir difficulties, so that friend OF hers
ho had many relatives in the South !
rote to her 10 exsltation: Your book 10
ling to be the great pacifcstor; it will
lite both North aud South. Her expec.
ton was that the professed aboltionisls
ould denounce it as altogether TOO mild
it's dealings with shareholders To
r astonishment, it was the extreme abb
lionists who received, aud tie entire
nth who rose up against it,
EFFECT UPON THE WORLD. 9
The effect OF the book upon the world !,
large cannot be easily described. II c
perhaps best shown in the interesting p
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