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Show 1M NO'rE.S ON on 'em clothes and blankets, and what not, tr~·in' to ~ccp 'em all sort o' decent and comfoda.blc. Law, t w.as n t no sorb-o' usc; I lost money on 'em, and 'twas bcaps_ 0 trouble. Now, you sec, I just put 'em straight througl_l , stck .or well. When one ni"'fl'er's dca.U, 1 buy another; and I find 1t comes cheaper an/~asier, every way."' (p. 173.) Now I chal] cn(J'c l\lrs. Stowe to bring forward any au.thonty, or shadow of ~'ln authority, for such a representatiOn. S~1~ cannot find a single instance of the kind since the abohtwn of the jo1·eign slave· trade: before that tlmc, there may lmvc bc('n instances, for tlten it really was cheaper to "usc up niggers," but now it is dearer, "every wa.y ;" and :Mrs. Stowe herself admits that it is dearer, for she makes Cassy say to Legree, "I've s~wcd you some thousands of dollars, at different times, by taking care of yow· Hands;" so hard it is to be consistent in fiction that professes to be founded on fact, and whose whole aim a.nd end is, to put the worst fa~c pos-sible upon things. . . . .. But enough of the inconsistenCies and ImprobabJlJtJcs of the story: to expose the whole of. them would require a volume. Let these serve for a speCimen. NOTE 1 8 .- IRilEI.IGIOUS TENDENCY OF THE 'VOHK. At tl}C "breakfast" given to ~Irs. Stowe, '~lC ~orning a.fter her arrival in Liverpool, 1-.rofessor Stowc,rm Ius oftr:r· breakfast speech, is thus reported:-" Spea.ki~~ of tl.Jc sue· cess of his gifted lady's book, he said-:-Incred1ble as 1t m•y seem to those who are wiLhout preJudiCe, 1t IS ne~'erthcl.e~s n. fact, that this book was condemned by the .l ea~m~ rcltgt· ous newspaper in the United States a~ antiC~lnStJ~n, and its author associated with infidels and dJsorganJzers. I hove not seen the article referred to, but I find the following extract from it in "'rbc Planter: or, 'l'hirtcen Years - ·- U :-.; C I. 1.': T 0 -'1 'S C A JJ IN. 1&5 in tl1e Soutl1 :"-" "'c have read the book, a nd. regard it as antichristian. '\re lw\'e marked numerous passages in which religion is spoken of in terms of contempt, and in no case is rel igion represented as making a master more humane; while ~Irs. Stowe is careful to represent the indulgent and a1niaLlc masters as without religion. This taint pervades the work, just as it does the writings of all the modern school of philanthropy. It is certainly a. non-religious, if not anti-evangelical school. .l\lrs. Stowe labors through all her book to rcuder ministers odious and contemptible, by attributing to them scutirncn ts unworthy of men or Christians." (p. ~4.) 1\row all this I fully concur with: I h:~vc myself "marked numerous pa.ssagcs," an(l I presume they arc the same with t!Jose marked Ly the Editor of the Obscrrcr. 1'hey may be fotwd on p<~ges 58, 130, 181, l!Jl, 202, 2G..J., 265, antl 2GG, oi' volume first, and on pages 10 and 127, of volume second. In each of these pnssages there is an open or covert sneer at the Church or the Clergy. As " set-oft" to all these, there is but one red eeming passage in the book: it is to be found on page 137 of volume second. How l\lrs. Stowe could reconcile it with the passages abo\'C referred to, or, indeed, wit!J Ll1e whole spirit of l10r Work, is past my comprehension. I say, with the "hole spi1· it of her work; fol' unless tlw CLu1·ch of Cltrist l1as, frum t11c beginning, utterly rnisapprcl! cndcd the cl~aractcr of Ulnistianity, that spirit is an anti~ christian spirit; it i.:; the spirit of the so-called nw1·al 'reforms of tile present day; the ntlwi5tic spirit of the old B'ronch Hc\'Olution : its sympathies arc not with Christ, but with "the fabe prophet." E\'cn the temperance mO\'Ctnent,the most plausible of them all ,-i:; a )lalwmmedan,.antl not a Christian JTIO\'ement: yc:us ago, in one of the Conrrrcrrational Churches in Lowell, Mass., (the t.hird, I bclic~c,l' ic |