The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-10

tho seminary was Prof. Calvin z. Stowe, who
met and loved Miss Beecher, and they were
married on Jan. f. 1886. Previous to this union
Harriet and her sister Catherine set I'D q school
Tor themselves, which was well patrouizsd BY
the old families. Her life on the banks of the
OHIO river, the border between the free and
slave States, presented to Mrs. Stowe q new
neid or observation and sympathy. Right in
TINS locality she was brought face TO face with
the horrors of slavery. She WAS painfully
aware OF the fact that men and won. en- were
bought, sold. tortured and, it is alleged, some
times murdered. Professor Stowe and all Of
bis wifes family were ardent Aboitionlsts. Mrs
Stowe educated her own children. and finding
there was no school for colored children she ad-
mitted 40 many OF them to her own home az she
could care for
Here, too, during her life ir Cincinnati. there
began series Of aRitations on the slavery oues-
ton which kept 1t seething In her mind. Hefa
Theodore Weld lectured and pray ed and great
proportion of the Lane Seminary students be-
came ardent Abolitionists; MODS ragged and ravsd
about the city. and the fanatics were threat
ened with their lives the very excitement and
fury that the vexed subject caused showed how
deep the volcano which so famed and
roared DR.. Bailey, ''awise, temperate and just
man, model of courtesy in speech and writing
who proposed to discuss slavery openly and fair
ly, was driven from the city bY mob OF Ken
lucky shareholders and went to Washington.
where afterward he printed Mrs. Stoves great
est work in his paper. the National Era
or course Mrs. Stowe WILL leave an imperish-
able name for her wonderful story OF "Uncls
Toms CABIN" The facts upon which the great
novel is based were obtained by Mrs. stowe
while a resident of this city. The incidents con
neeted with the flight OF the slaves from Ken
tucky and thsir crossing the Ohio river on the
ice were realities and upon these and kindred
facts the mastery narrative Of "Uncle Toms
Cabin was written. The eminent authoress
wrote her first production while living on
Walnut Hills. 1t was called New England
Story In competition for a prize OF $50.
which she gained. uncle Toms Cabin
published March 20, 1852. Ten Thousand copies
were sold in few days, and over three hundred
Thousand the first year. No book published in
the English language has had a wider sale, aud
every child in the land is familiar with the prin
cipai characters in the work. Very few of the
citizens OF Cincinnati at the present day knew
Mrs. Stowe. she having left here IN the forties.
Her only intrinsic friend. who still lives. is DR..
Monfors. the venerable Presbyterian divine and
editor of the Herald and Presbyter. The Doc
tor was also intimate friend Of her father,
Rev. Lyman Beecher. who was one of the great
est Of ths early pulpit orators of the West.
During her residence here, and, in fact through
out her whole life. Mrs. Stowe was . deeply re-
ligious woman, and she was constantly per-
forming acts of charity. especially among the
Door and. at tha time, oppressed colored race.
1t is known that Mrs. Stowe always mad q warm
place for Cincinnati FOR il here that she
drew the inspiration for the grand works which
have made Der one Of the greatest women 10
American history.