The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-04-19
MRS. HARRIET ELIZABETH
BEECHER-STOWE
BY MISS ANNA r. DUNLAP.

READ DeIOre the CHRISTIAN EnQeaV- |
or Society of st. Paul A. M. z. Church, |
when in the course of human
events it becomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bands |
which have connected them with an
other and to assume the separate and
equal station to which the laws of ma
ture and Natures God entitle them,
they should be permitted to separate,
so long as the separation does not in
fringe upon the happiness of others.
eve believe all men to be created
equal that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable
rights: among these are life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness; and
when for any cause whatsoever a man
or race of people is denied these privi-
leges, then that one has just cause for
equity and redress.
Russia with all her Imperialism has
allowed the people a Constitution and
right of self-government to limit
ed extent, but the United States that
can fight the battle of the oppressed
so far from home and pour out the
blood of thousands of her own noble
sons for a strangers cause, failed to
hear the cries of six millions of slaves
who were held in a cruel bondage by
the whites Of this fair Southland. We
possessed no rights which they felt
bound to respect Toiling. praying and
trusting in a God Of destiny for $50
years, these brethren in black made
of the same blood redeemed by the
same Savior served the white Chris
tians in "land of the free and home
of the brave"
China. with her Pagan religion and
nhuman atrocities against the Chris
tians of the Nineteenth Century, was
never so diabolical as were the slave
holders in their treatment of the Ne
gro. But we are told in the Book of
books that, Gle temDers the wind to
the shorn lamb" and, indeed can we
of all people rejoice in this quotation
and the truth of it as manifested to us
through the influence of the writings
of one of the nohlest and truest
friends that any race can boast, in
the person of Mrs Harriet Elizabeth
Beecher-Stowe.
If we are permitted to draw upon
our imaginations we can see shining
ahove the home of the Rev. Lyman
Beecher, on June IA. 1911, the bright
est star that has ever shown in the
: armament since those snarkled out that
led the wise men of the East to the
humble manger in Bethlehem at the
birth of the Christ child; for when
the iovous announcement of the birth
If a dear daughter was made in the
Beecher home, little did that good man
> think that she would be the Moses who
would, without sword or gun of her
own, lead from bondage the humble
slaves of America. Born as millions
IF other good women, she was very
carly given a Christian and literary
training. Her father being a Congre
qational preacher, she had been taught
that greatest of commands, Love thy
ncightor as myself" and Whatever
We would that men should do to you
do We even so to them"
: Harriet Elizabeth Beecher-Stowf
was educated at Litchfield Academy
qnd at the school of her sister Gather
2 inc in Hartford, Conn. At the age OF
"a she began teaching.
She felt so keenly the brutal inlus
tice which was being done the Negroes
in the South, until she urged her faith
} or to preach against it; afterwards she
persuaded her brother, the noted DR.
, Henry Ward Beecher, to do the same
She used every instrument at her com
) mand to arouse a sympathy stronS
! enough to break down slavery FOR
ever On hended knees she sent up
netition to our God to stir men to ac
ion; but not until she had heard o.
the life of Josiah Henson did the hap
ny thought of writing Uncle Toms
:, Cabin" come to her | believe it was
an inspiration from Daniels God, wht
walked with the Hebrew children II
the fiery furnace, and even more th'
Negroes God, who heard their cries
from the canebreaks of LoniSl9na
through the swampS of Nississinpi anC
Arkansas on and still on to tn'
''Nason.Dixon Lire" and sYmnathiz
ers for the cause Of the Negro arose.
>. No other book of Action has beer
+ so popular with the people as her "Un
, Gle Toms Cabin" 1t wss reed by thu
' reople of this country and England
! discussed by friends and foe, until th'
' blood of our fri1nds reached a Whit
I heat and the ultimate result was tn
I great Civil War, which eliminated il
2 the emanciDation Of six millions o