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Show 150 NOTI::S ON substituted for wine, in the Lord's Supper, molasse8~and' lVflter; and recently, in the rnitarian Church in Bedford, (the place of my nativity,) reversing the mira.clc of our Lord it has changed wine into wdcr! :Mrs. Stowe may not be ready yet to go to such a. lcng~h, but ~or tcnU~J~cics arc in that Jircction: the spirit of her work IS the sp1nt of the several "movements;" her sympathies arc not with Christ, nnd with St. raul, nnu St. l'ctcr, anu St. Jude, but with Theodore Parker and IIorncc :Mann. Like them, she is "presumptuous,"'' self-willed,'' "not afraid to spcn.k evil of dignities." It is painful to 1Ht.\'C to speak thus of a woman, but she has left me no alternative. ' Yho would have supposed that a woman cottld dclibera.tcly pen so shockingly inevercnt a sentence as that at the end of the first pnragr3ph on pngc fifteenth of volume second? And what could we expect from such an one but that she should be found, as she nctuaHy is found, arraying herself in open hostility to the laws of her country, nnd not lliCrcly encouraging passive non·obcd icncc for conscience sake-that we might r espect, 11owcvcr much we thought the conscience misguitlcd-but actually inciting to active resistance to the execution of those laws, even to the extent, if need be, of taking human lifo? Alas for my country, when such a work, from such a source, is read by such multitudes-thousands upon thot:.· sands,-1 had almost said, millions upon millions! I so_l· ero nly believe that it has done more, considering its immense circulation to debauch public sentiment and sap the foundations of' social order, ancl lead men to infidelity and open atheism, than n.ny other publication, with the sin~lc c~ccption of the New York Tribune. 'rho Independent, JUdgm~fro~n the little I have seen of it, is as bad, but its circulatwn IS compnraiivoly limited. As to the Ueralu, even in its worst UNCLg 1'0.M's CADIN. 157 days, it wns a gooll Christian, side by side with tho Tribune a_n~ now it is an angel of light in the comparison. By i t~ ndJCulc of "Philosopher Greely" it has .furni~Shed the young men of Now York, :md of the country, with an anti · dote to tlw ~1\ibunc's bane, and I should look upon its discontinua~ ce,-th~ Tribune still continuing to be issued,as a pubhe cabm1ty. NoTE 1D.-KEY To UNCLJ.: 'l'o"'s CAnm. 'Tl~is the author evidently considers a. '~settler," and it is cert:unly pon(hrous cnouglt to settle almost anytltinfl'. Uncle 1,om's Cabin is probably the first one of its kind ;hat ever lmd a key, and therefore it seems to ha,vc been thou,-,!Jt fitting that it s~ou.~d fc.'lvc a lnrgc onc,-largcr, l:itrange0to s1y, than the Cabm Itself. It is evidently a permutation and combination key; it cal'l"ies on the f<1cc of it the marks of more than one-person having been engaged in the manuf:teturc of i~, and of t~tere having been a shifting (not siftin:z) of matcr1als from t1~e to time. ':J1J,c HUtftOJ·, having made a handsome speculatiOn on the Cabin, ltas invested a part of the pr_occeds in a new venture, and a paying one, too, for there zs no end to human gullibility: "Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being: cheated as to cheat," if not a little greater; and th is innocent pleasure ~frs. s.towe has very bcn~rolently ministered to, and on a mag· nlficent scale. llavmg abundant resources at her command she has spread a drag. net from the Ilia Grande to Cape Sable' " which, when it was full," with much ado and great flouri:,l: ?f trumpets, she has succeeded in "drawing to land;" Lut matcad of "gathering the gooU into vessels and castino- tho bad. away," she bus pretty nearly rcyerscd the pr:Ccss, havmg s.ved only enough of the good to keep up a show of 0 |