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Show 188 NOTES 0~~ "After John Garret's trial was over, and this heavy judgment had bccn"given against him, he calmly arose in the court-room, and requested leave to address a few words to the court and audience. * * * "After showing conclusi\'Cly that ho had no reason to suppose the family to be slaves, and that they hn~ all been discharged by the judge, be nobly adds thcfollowmg words : 'Had I believed every one of them to be slaves, I should ltave done tlte same tlting !' '' "Thus calmly and simply," snys ~irs. Stowe, "did this Quaker confess Ghrist before men."(!) And, spcakin? of the result of the trial : "Our European fnends wtll mfcr from this that it costs something to obey Christ(!) in America as well as in Europe." Now for another ·instance of "obeying Christ," -that of Richard Dillingham : ' " Some unfortunate families among the colored people had dear friends who were slaves in Nashville, Tennessee. n.ichard was so interested in their story, that when be went into Tennessee ho was actually taken up and caught in the very :wt of helping certain poor people to escape to their friends." ''For this," says ?tfrs. Stowe, "he was seized and thrown into prison. In the langua~~. of this world (!) he was imprisoned as a. 'negro-stealer. One more instance, in another part of the book, (p. 219,) not of a Quaker: "Torrey, meekly patient, died in a prison, saying, 'If I am a guilty man, I am a very guilty one, for I have helped four hundred slaves to freedom, who but for me would have died slaves;'" and, four lines below, Mr>. Stowe's comment upon this: "Jesus Christ has not wholly deserted us yet." . . Now, in answer to all this, I have only to say, (and It IS UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. 189 all that need be said,) Picture to yourself, reader, if you can picture such a thing, St. Paul running off four hundred sl.aves, and at the same time preaching, "Servants, be obedwnt to them that are your masters according to the flesh!" (Eph. vi. 5.) "Leta~ many servants as are under tlteyoke count their own masters worthy of a1l honour, that tho name of God and Hrs DOCTitlNE be not blasphemed," (1. Tim. vi.l,) a~d then say, where is his character as an Apostle? Gone irret~ ICvably, e~en abolitionists themse!vcs being judges. GarI" ISon and 'Iheodore Parker would hove no patience with such shullling ; they Abhor the doctrine now; they would ~hen abhor the man; for whatever their faults, hypocrisy JS not one of them. 'l'be fourteenth chapter is entitled, "The Spirit of St. Clare," and contains several "testimonials from Southern men" in favour of UncJe ~rom 's Cabin, in the shape of letters, some anonymous, and some authentic: the former of course, require no notice, as, for aught we know, the; may be, every one of them, from Northern abolitionists _ "ancient maidens" or "collecting clerks;" of the latter,' all but one are from the class of "Southern Emancipators" ~~ec _Not?. 14.) in the border States, and that one, though haJ.lmg from Cha~lcston at the time of writing, bas since pubh~hcd a book entitled, "Uncle Tom at Home," (designed to prop up the Cabi n,) on the title page of which he descnb: s lHmsclf as "late of Charleston," at which I am not surpnsed, for I should suppose, after he had thus fouled his ~~wn nest, ~c wo~ld want to be out of it as soon as possib le. lhc book IS a htcmry curiosity, and I had marked some Blxty-seven "elegant extracts," wherewith to enliven my own pages, as specimens of the author's noble indcpendenc of the King's English, and to show how much reliance wa: to be placed on the testimony of such a muddle-ltead. Bu, I find I cannot afford the space for them; so I have con- |