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Show 54 TilE LIDERTY nELL. with Drs. Spring, Taylor, Dewey, Rogers of lloston, Bishop llopkins, aml Professor Stuart, he showed no sensibility, thinking, ns ho said, that tho statement which associated him with such names could produce 00 unfavorable impression upon tho public mind. But when, in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," he was individually quoted as giving his influence to the support of Slavery, tho imputation became too heavy for him to bear; he said ~~ it was a very different thing when he alone was singled out," and, though unable to disprove his occupancy of a Pro-Slavery position, he availed himself of some inaccuracy in tho quotation in Uncle Tom's Cabin, to bring n suit against ita author for libel, laying the damages at twenty thousand dollars ; according to that passage of Scripture which saith- "If thy brother offend thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone; and if he shall hear thee, thou bast gained thy point; but if he will not hear thee, send to him one or two lawyers ; and if he I'EUSONALITY. 55 will not hear them, ten it to tho court and the jury." Now if this case should Lo pushed to trial, it is very possible that a vigorous '' putting to the question " of those drawn as jurymen might exclude all Abolitionists from their number, and that a jury might thus be collected of so Pro-Slavery a character as (keeping in mind tho distinction between law and equity) to give, on the technical point of inaccuracy of quotation, a verdict of more than six and a quarter cents damages. In that case, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin would suffer a pecuniary penalty for her blunder (a preposterous one indeed, in a civilized country,) of trusting in equity rather than law. This, though a present misfortune, would teach the useful lesson of verbal accuracy in the quotations in her next book, (may it speedily appear.) But meantime, . one main purpose of the quotation is accomplished as perfectly as if it had been literally correct. A leader in tho Pro-Slavery ho~t has been reaclled1 |