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Show 302 APllENDIX TO NOTES . From tlte Bf).<rfon Oommonu:caltl1, of 1lfay 7. Extmct ft·om n. speech of Professor Stowe; where Uclivcrcd, the Commonwealth docs uut tmy :- . •· b it true that all tbi:i af!Cctionatc intf'rcst is mcr1tcd? . [Great nppl:wsc.J I cannot help ft·cling in rf'gard. to that l~·w~, '1 don't iJ)ccke anybody C\'Cr u~adc tha~ Loi; k, ·' ~HJitJ~ks 1t growcll. [Lnu~htcr.J udcr the ]H'c.~suru ol :\ hurnd l>ugtltVC ~lnvc law, tho book sprung out of the l:ioil r01tdy m1u.lc. * * * . -, . . . '' L Uclic\'c that. the p:-tssu,!:\'O of tho Eu~lti\'C Slnvc T,1tw 1s the lnst desperate effOrt, and ttl(~ dying slruh;;le of the fl)'8tPm. [Cheer!!.! llut there 1uc re:LI difficul ties cotmccted with the slave question in thol:iC :States in wlticll 81avcry cxi~Stlol. All the social hft.b its of tire people arc currrrcl!tetl with the system, noJ they Uon't know what to do witlwut sian.•.:; where they :u·e so numerous, n.nJ. where tbcy have :tlw:t.ys been acc~~torucJ_ to tbeur._ There is another ; rcat dilliculty connected \\"ith lhrs CJucstwu-tlrat rs, tlrat tlw slnxclrul;Jrng States arc, as political bodies, intenrally indQptmJcnt. 'J'hc Ml:Lwholdcr·s JIOSS•)SS r~ll political power·, anJ 110 movement can be maJe for the runclioratiuu of the slrt\"C except in~ by tire slaveholdnrs tlremsch•cs. Jt is rwt tire :same as in tlris couutry, whcr·c your l';rrliament cnuld hnld a rod over the ~:~lave-owners. There it i~:~ the t:da,·clroldcrs thenrscl\'cs wlw lwld tho rod, aud they arc accu,tomcd to usc it. '!'here arc only two ways, thcrc i(H'c, in which :1. change can be looked for. Either the slavcholdtJr h imself must be pc1·suaJed to :Ldopt rL ilystcm for the abo- 1itiuu of the C\'il, or the evil will be Lrougbt. to ;Ln cud by n. bloody r evolution. "The slnseholde rs h~we conflcicnccs, nncl these will be nwa.kcnrd in time by tl·uth and Clrr·istian ion:~. ln corning a long here from Li\"er~ pool, I huvo observed your wealth and comfort, and your abounding: resources; but I have also ob:)crved that a great deal or it results from the products of slave labor. In th is country is H1c great lnfl.rkct for Am err can cotton, and it is cotton which sustnins American slarcry. I do not say you can do without it. It is cotton which mnkes the system pr otita.Ulc, and cotton make!:! the price or n man £300 in the markets of the United States. lt is my conviction tlmt nine-tenths of the people of~ the United States lCel. in their hearts, on the sul~ject of !:!lavery, just as you do. [Ciwcrs.] llut ther·e is such a trcmcn- ~~~~~}o~~t~l\bl: :~~3u~!i!J,t0to b1i~:o :rN:li~~t ~~;~~~ f~~~~~~~:ll'1:~v~~ots~o ':·~~dd~~ with the subject a t all. * * * "Hofcning to the .Fugitive Shwo Law, be sl:l.tcd tlrnt it had been nnd would be :1ltogether inopcmtivc; fo 1· out of tire thousands of fu r•itivc ala res in the St:Ltcs, not twenty~fiv~of them had been carried ba~k under the influence of that law. '1'he Hev. Doctor concluded amid enthusiastic applause by stating that there was soundness in tho American mind, which in due course would be unmistakably dcvolopcd. 11 Prorn tfte Ke1o Jin·J.; 'J'imes, of -~fny 28. "l\[ns. H. Jl. STOll'£ AT Sv.n·ono HousE. 303 "'On S:"turday,' ~ays the London 'l'inw.c:, of the Oth inst., • a mnn~ bcr of lad res :~.m1 gentlen_Jell assembled at St:tflbnl House, to weleomo Mrs. 1.1. B. Stowe to !lrrs_ counb:y, n.nd to gi\'C' expre>~sion personal! to,~/~? reapcct,an(.l a~lnrrratrun wlr w_h n.r·? felt fur thnt. lady. y lhc Duke of Hr~tiJerlanJ hav"';; mtr·odueed Mr~:~. Stowe to the nsseml;l_y, the f(_lllo~vrng short address was reu.d n.nd presented to her by tho /·,arl of Sh:dte$lnu·y ·- ·: '1\I.4D,ui :-1 :llll d1:JlUtcd hy the Duchess of Sutherland, and tho Jadu's of the tw~ Oonmrrttccs :Lppoiutrd to conduct • The AdJress f r•om the 'Vor~1en of }.llglnrul to_ the Women of AmCJ·ica, on the su iUect ol" Slavery, to exJ_m::.<;s the, l,ngh g r-atification they feel in your presence nmong them tills day .. _l he atldresf.l,_ which has rcccin~d corrsidcr:l.bly m~ro . than lmlf a mrllron of the IHgnaturcs of tire women of Great ~rrtam and_ lr:clan~l, they hn.\·e already tmnsmittcd to the United Stn.tcs, cons1gnrng 1t to the CaJ·e of those whom you hare nominated ~~ fit and zealo_us p~rsom; to und~rtakc the charge in your ahsenco. 1hc earnest_ desu·o ~~ these ~om nnttecs, and, indeed, we may say of the ~vhole kmgdom, ra to eultrvate _the most friendly and aff1•ctionatc rclatrons bct\:een the t\\-o c~untnc~. ancl we cannot but bclic\'C that we arc fostc!·mg sLJch a fccl rng when we avow our derp admiration of a? Amcnc:m lady who_, blc~Med by the posses~ion of vast gcniua ~od mtellcctua l. p,.ow:r, en,J,Oy!1 the still higher blessing thnt sho de~ ~~tU~oUI~~:l:~~ t;~cr.~~ory of liod, and the temporal and etcmal interests "'Rev. Mr. Beecher (l\frs. Stowe's brother,) after a few prefatory remarks of ack_nowlod~rrrcnt an~ ~hankl!, read the following lelter [rom Hon. Ca~SIUS M. Uh,y, dcscr1brng the IJrogrcss of emancipation m Kentucky, and_ the scrnce Uucle .10m hat rendered the c:H!Se. "After fm~·takm:; of refr·esh rnents, the ladies who wero present congregated Ill one of the s plendid saloons npnrt, and Mrs. Stowe: seated. between tho . Ducl~esscs of Sutherland n.nd Argyll, entered freely mto convcr·sa.tron w1th her numerous \"isitors. "In the course or her ubservnt ions, she stated that the ladies of England _were not at all :_Lw:u·e of the rc.al ~tate or feeling of the !1ulics of AmCl·rca. on the sul~]ect_ of sluvcry; 1t must not Lojudg<'d of by the answer sent to the _nchlre.ss. nor hy tire sta tements in tho Amcrie:m newspapers . . 'l'Jro lad res of En~land seem uot to be at all awnrc of th? deep fcelm$. of sympathy with which Uncle 'J'om's Cabin was received m Amcrrca long bcfOr·e it was known in J1:nrrlaud. Tho press in America h1~d invariably spoken highly of Uncle f'om'8 Cabin. The first word that CI'CI" appeared in print ;wainst Uncle .1'om'a Cubin was the n:ticle in the 1'ime8, which was !~pri nted and rc-cclwcd in tire ~mcr10an papers, :mel widely cil·culatcd in tho forrn of n. tract. 'l'ho b1tterness ~nJ nngcr manifested against the Indies' address showed l10w much 1ts force had enraged the ad\"Ocates of slavery. Ladies in England were happily ignornnt of slavery; yet t hat address had shown sympathy, and sympathy was very sweet. '!'here was no bitter |