The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-05-19

attack on his own paper, and his sis
ter found him one day making bull
lets In the kitchen. She asked whai
he was making them for.
To Kill men WITH" he answered
grimly. and Mrs. Stowe. telling her
son about II years later, said. 81
never saw Henry look SO terrible.
did not like II. for feared he was
growing bloodthirsty."
Professor Stowe helped at times the
underground railroad. He 1t was who
took the original of Eliza and Little
Harry" to the house Of the old Quaker
when the master was pursuing the
fugitives. It was not long after this
that she wrote she felt keenly the
need OF an intermediate party which
would oppose slavery without the VIC
lence of abolitionists. But, she said,
II no such party was formed many
people would be forced to join the
abolitionists in spite OF their ex-
cesses.'
In 1850 the Stoves left Cincinnati
for Brunswick. Me. II was there that
her great resolve was taken that she
would use her pen to fight slavery.
Already she was successful author
and deeply interested In the cause of
the slave. Her brother wrote and put
the proposition to her squarely: why
did she not write about the subject
nearest her heart and make people
understand? II was In the little parlor
OF her Brunswick home. She read
the letter aloud. AS she finished the
appeal she rose from her chair, crush,
ing the letter In her hand and said:
God helping me. l will write"
The material for Uncle Toms
Cabin" came from various sources,
but she verified them all. The Ken.
lucky plantation she already knew.
The slaves whom she had known in
Cincinnati had talked freely, giving
the light as well as the tragedy of
their lot.
Uncle Tom seems to have been
drawn from Joshua Hoosen, a black
man of great sweetness and piety, who
told her appalling stories of life as
he had seen II.
The book, then. was published. with
many misgivings, but none among
them was that the south would fail
to understand the friendliness of her
spirit. Then she found herself the
most famous and the most abused
woman in the world
Mrs. Stowe had that exaltation of
character which lifts a soul above
praise or blame. In the midst of the
tumult she wrote poetry and planned
4 trip to England In the interest of
the cause. 1t is typical Of her In.
that she was much sur.
prised to find herself welcomed and
feted on the other side of the ocean.
Where she had expected to rest and
see nobody. she discovered she was
he talk of the country.
When the war broke out Mrs
Stoves son was among the first to go
She wrote afterward: 1t was the viii
,f God that the slave mothers
whose tears nobody regarded should
have with them a great company of
xeepers. north and south-Rachels
weeping for their children and refus
ng to be comforted."
After the war Mrs. Stowe went
south and lived for a time In Florida
rhe scheme was to raise cotton with
rec labor. but 1t failed disastrously
n other ways the stay In the south |
vas a success. a1o everywhere Mrs
Stowe appears to have been treated /
With consideration The era Of abuse
vas over.
After cotton they tried to raise
oranges. but frost spoiled that plan
Mrs. Stowe ioet $4,000 in this way,
md then she founded the Christian
Union with her brother. Eel.y Ward
and lest most OF thu rest Of
Ter money. She keTs writing, mt be
.ause ner fame tempted her, bet be
azure the monsy Va. needed. "Unc,s
rom's Cabin" which mIle o many
nevs Yielded h.r more thai
few aundIeS dollars