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A Family Stvspaptr, Devoted to Ctneral Intelligence, aiisrellancous Heading, and lnt tights of San.
I Ani an Abolitionist.
Air Auid Lang Syne.
I am an Abolitionist!
I glory in the same;
Though now by Slavery's minions hiss'd
And covered o'er with shame.
It is a spell of light and power.
The watchword of the free;
Who spurns H in the trial-hour,
A craven soul is he!
I am an Abolitionist!
Then urge me not to pause;
For joyfully do I enlist
In Freedom's sacred cause;
A nobler strife tbe world ne'er saw,
TV enslaved to disenthrall;
I am a soldier for the war,
Whatever may befall!
I am an Abolitionist!
Oppression's deadly foe;
In God's great strength will I resist.
And lay the monster low;
In God's great name do I demand.
To all be freedom given.
That peace and joy may fill the land;
And songs go up to Heaven.
I am an Abolitionist.'
No rlireats shsil awe my soul.
No perils cause- me to desist;
No bribes my acts control;
' A freeman will I live and die.
In senshhw and in shade.
And raise my voice for Liberty,
Of nengbt e earth afraid.
From the National Erdc.
Mrs. Stowe, Henry Ward JBtecIjcr.
nnd their Assailants.
A week or tw ago, the JVew York Observer
made a dastardly attack on Mrs. Stowe and her
brother, Hery Ward Beecher, accusing the for
mer of a fibel on Eer. Joel Parker, for which that
Chrisliea minister had brought suit nga'fnst her,
laying the dnwmges at 820,000, nnd charging the
latter witf forgery, ia publishing certain letters
over the signators of Joel Parker, which that gen
tleman never signed or authorized to be published.
The artiele in the Observer was ur.ninnFyy base,
and venoinom, nnd the editor also a Christian min
ister, informed bis readers that he had served it up
for their "entertainment' that is, had psblicly
assailed a woman a wife, a mother, a sisler as
a gross hbeler, ond a brother minister as a forger,
for the specinl "entertainment" of his readers!
Bright exemplar of Christian character! His no
tion of an "entertainment" suggests the idea of
the banquet on human flesh Bnd n$od, so savory
in the nostrils is his New Zeland brethreB.
Such an assault could not be snfFtr-d to pass
unnoticed. A painful transaction thus dragged to
I'ght, nnd horribly distorted by a diabolical ingenu
ity. Mr. Bei cher felt constrained to publish a full
statement of all the facts in the case. It occupies
large space in the column of the Independent,
and has also been published in the JVio York Eve
ning Post. We need not hardly say that, it s all
that bis best fiiends could wish full, clear, well
tempered, and, as a vindication cf himself and his
noble sister, eloquent and triumphant.
We ahull pub'bh the whole history of this trans
action next week, merely calling attention now to
the origin of it tbe allodged libel by Mrs. Stowe.
One year ago, last August, the. following lan
guage was ascribed by Mrs. Slowe, in one of the
chapters of Uncle Tom's Cabin, then appearing in
the co'umns of iho Era, to Dr. Joel Parker:
Slavery has nu evils but euch as are insepara
ble from any other relations in social and domestic
life."
This language had been quoted again and again,
for years ns Ihe language of Dr. Parker. It had
passed the Atlantic, and was made a subject of
comment in English periodicals. It had come
back, and was quoted, as from Dr. Parker, in tbe
Annual Report of the Amerit an and Foreign Anli-
Sluvere Society, a copy of which was sent to that
gentleman. He had never contradicted it no
friend bad ever Contradicted it its authenticity
rested on the same evidence as that of the sayings
attributed to other public characters. Mrs. Stowe,
finding it everywhere qjoted, and verily believing
that he belonged to the pro-slavery school of di
vines, introdoced in her work, not to befume Dr.
Parker, but as conducive to the dramatic e fleet of
a certain part of her story. Still,- no entradietion
appeared ; , eight months after the story was issued
in book form, but not till it began to have world
wide circulation did Dr. Parker deem it neces
sary to1 deny the quotation attributed to him. He
wrote to Sirs. Siowe, in an indignant lone, pro
nounced the quotation a calumny, and demunded
a full and an instant retraction, threatening legal
process should it be refused. Then commences a
correspondence between them, charactet tied by
heat, Labte and arrogance on his pait by finnne s
kindness, and an auxious desire to do justice, ort
her pat t.
It was not satisfactory to tho minister, who ap
pears to have been trained in the doctrine that im
plicit submission is always the duty of the woman,
and so he sued her, laying the damage at S20,-
OOtt understand! Kg, we suppose, tfcat this would
be about tire amount that Uncle Tsm might yield
her.
To show the immense- injury sustained by this
Christ-like minister ! we place in parallel columns
what Dr. Parker says he di 1 sny, and what
Mis. Sie, on the strength cf geneml testimony,
unitnpeached at that time, quoted in her book, as
spoken by him
Tl' ha I he did say.
ffhnt he mas lettered by
Mrs. iitoiceCohuvesaid.
Slavery hs no evils
but such as are insepara
What then,- me the
evils insepi-mble f i o n
slavery? There is noi
one that is not equally
inseparable from depta
voJ human tniuro ii
other lawful relations.
ble from any other rela
tion in social and domes
tic life.
Such is ihejibel! It is rather hard,, thnt hav
ing contributed but a single sentence to the book
the reverend prosecutor should iow seek to se
cure the whole amount of its profits, aud stub the
raputaliou of its gentle author. We can tell him
that his unmanly conduct in this caso is calculated
to do more injnry to hu order, than all tho good
his preaching lis ever dime it.
BciIy oriieury Ward ileecher
To the 6'tiidurcs of Ihe JVeio'York Observer, vpou
the allusion made in " Vnsle To:n's Cabin " to
the Rev. Joel Parker. .
1. The Matter in Dispute.
Mrs. Stowe, in Ihe first volume of Uncle Tom's
Cnbin, p. 191, attributes to Dr. Purker certain
words and sentiments, which for many years hud
been pub.icly reported, as his.- I put in parallel
columns the language quoted by Mrs. Stowe and
the language really used by Dr." Parker
Uncle Tom'a Cafiin.
Dr. Parker.
Slavery has no evils but
such as are inseparable from
any other relation in social
and domestic life.
What, then, are the evils in
eparable " from Slavery ?
Tlu-re is not one that is not
ennalH insertarahTii from Hn-
pravet numsn nature in otner
lawful relations.
1
RAVENNA WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER
The paragraphs, as they stand, mean substan
tially the same thing. But in the argument which
Dr. Parker was urging, he undertook to show that
slavery per se was not sinfu'; that you could- sepa
rate from it all its various abuses, such as separa
tion of families, ignorance, cruelty, Sec.; thnt these
were but abuses, and no part necessarily of slavery;
and thHt when yoa had separated frora it every
sinful thing sus.eptible of separation, and had got
down to the thing as an abstraction, then, tbe evils
which were no longer separable would be found to
be no worse than such as belong to other lawful
human relations. It is not my business to com
ment upon tbe wisdom of such reasoning, but only
to explain it, that it Bay be seen how the mistake
arose.
2. Dr. Purker and Mrs. Stowe's Correspond
ence. On the 8th of fust May, (1852,) Dr. Parker ad
dressed a teller to Profeesor Stowe, of Brunswick
Maine, and one to Mrs. Slowe, as follows:
Dr. Parker's frJ Idler la Prof. Stowe.
Sew York, May 8, 1852
Dear Sir: It is with extreme regret that I
have yielded to the necessity of addressing to Mrs.
Stowe the communication transmitted under cover
of this note to yourself.
I have long regarded yow as being at least so far
my friend, that you could Dot be suspected of cher
ishing anything like personal hostility to me.
Hence, I was fill-d a'ike wiih sorrow and sur
prise to find ray Chrisii-m character and profession
al reputation assailed set injurious' y from a sou-ce
which your counsels might fairly be supposed to
govern.-
My friends concur with me in the belief, that
a proper self-respect does not allow me to make a
less serious matter of it, or to demand a less repar
ation. I remain faithfully and truly yours.
JoEir Park ee.
Eev. Calvin E. Stowe, D. D.
New YoaK, May 8, 1 852.
Madam: My attention has been called to an
allusion you was pleased ta make to myself, by
name, in your widely-extended book, entitled
"Uncle Tom's Cabin," &zc.
I am sorry to say that 1 feef myself compelled
to take some notice of what yoa have judged proper
to send forth to the public as my words and my
sentiments regarding tho institution of slavery.
It is to me a matter of profuunJ regret, that be
fore you made (bis assault unon my Christian and
ministerial character, jou hud not conferred with
me, or sought information from some reliable
source, so that I might have been spared an asper
sion so wide spread and so injurious to my profes
sional reputation and usefulness.
Under these circumstances, I feel myself com
pelled to demand a full ai.d public retraction of the
calumny refe ied to. Respectfully, your fiien.i,
Joti Parker. -
Mrs. Harriet Boeeiier Stowe.
Professor Stowe immediately repUed. But Mi s.
Stowe, suffering fiora intense literary application
during the winter, was touching at Boston, Hurt
ford, and New Haven, on her way to Brooklya
New lork, at which pluee she remained during
most of the time covered by this con espoodeuce ;
no.! at this place lr. Parker fetter ronched hor,
to which letter (.is navitfjp been acknowledged
throu&b tier husband) sh prepared to reply, by
making inquiries intn the alleged facts. On the
19th of May, and eleven dnys from the date of his
first; Dr. Farker addressed Mrs. Stowe herself
again :
Dr. Paiker's second letter to Ars. Sloiee.
New Yobk, No. 2 Leroy Place,
May Iff, 1852. J
Madam: On tbe 8th instant I addressed to you
a communication, under cover of a letier to your
husband. In that communication I complained
that you bad made a calumnious assault upon my
Christian and ministerial character, and demanded
a full and public retraction of the calumny referred
to. A letter from your husband has led me to un
derstand that my note to you was received several
days ago.
It is tor me a matter of deep regret that you
seem to persist in the wrong inflicted on me, by
taking no nMrce of my eommanieafions. In your
work catitfed " Uncle Tom's Cabin," Sea. , after
painting a scene of shocking inhumanity, you hold
me np to the public in an odtous light, by repre
senting me as uttering sentiments that seem to
justify or at leapt to palliate the cruellies which
you have described. On pages 190 and 191 of the
first volume of your book, you have published tbe
following paragraph :
" Tom had watched the whole transaction, from
fifet to last, and had a perfect understanding of its
results. To him, it looked like something unutter
ably horrible and cruel, because, poor ignorant
black soul ! he hail not learned to generalize and
to lake enlarged views. If he hfad only been in
structed by certain ministers of CTfiist'fanity, ho
might have thought better cf it, and seen in it an
every Jay incident of a h wfrr! trade n trade which
is the v tal support of an iiibtitution which au Amer
ican Divine tells us lias wo ivils but suck as are
inseparable from any vther relations in soii il and
domestic life. Eat Tom, ns we see, being a poor
ignorant fellow, whose reading had been confined
entirely to the New Testamea', could not comfort
nnd solace himself with views like these. His
very soal bled within hitn for what seemed to him
the wrongs of the poor suffering thing that lay liko
a crushed reed on the boxes."
The American divine referred ta in this para
graph, you inform the public hy a marginal note, is
Dr. Joel Parker, of Philadelphia.' You do not
say that, I am supposed to hold substantially such
sentiments, or that it mny be inferred from some
thing said by mc; that Tom would have been able
to comfort nnd solace himself with views like these,
if he had been less conversant With the New Test
ament, and more familiar with my teachings.
You profess to' give my words.- You inform the
public, gravely nnd circumstantially, that 1 have
said of the institution of slavery, that it has ' no
ecu's but snch as are inseparable from any other
relations in social and domestic life."
Your meaning is clear. You intend to fix on
me tbe stigma of having uttered this language.
You pledgo yeut: veracity that I have employed
these words. You intimate plainly that nn Amer
ican divine, whom yoa carefully designate by my
name, title, and residence, has nscd this form of
speech.- You put it in quotation marks ua mii.e.
Your statement has been spread through the coun
try with all Ihe influence which your name as w
writer and the popularity of your book can give it.
You have made this assault upon a minister of
the Gospel, upon one whose professional reputa
tion, like-the reputation of your sex fur ohasiity, is
blasted by mere suspicion; You have done this,
Dr. Joel Parker, of Philadelphia.
ia, mi.
too, without the least provocation, pub icor private.
Up to the time of the publication of your book, I
had been ther warm friend cf yeur fattier and bis
family, of your husband and of yourself. I bad
often commended you to others, as my friends will
bear witness. No dispnraging word had ever es
caped my lips in respect to you as a lady, as a
gifted writer, as a Christian. I hae given no pub
lic provocation for such an assault. I hae never
used such words. I have never maintained such
views.
Why I am singled out and held up to such scorn,
I do- not understand. What your motives mny be,
I will not attempt to say. But I do ray, with in
dignnnt remoustranee agRioet the injustice of this
libel, that yotrr language is untrue and slanderous,
and 1 again demand a full and pul.fo rett action.
If such retraction is not made ia a piomptand sat
isfactory manner, I sluill feel obliged to take the
best means that I can to throw off from myself the
odium which you have sought t heap upon trie.
With due respect, Joei, Parker.
Mrs. Harriet B. Stowe.
With these letters before her, "Mrs. Stowe on
the 22J of May, two days from the receipt of Dr.
P.'s second, and about ten dnys from the receipt of
his first, addressed to Dr. Parker ihe following
letter. Besides tbe reasons for delay which she
gives', there was anether, viz : from something said
in her husband's letter to-her, she expected a visit
from Dr. Purker. and was for several days mo
mently hoping to see him j
.Mrs. Stoice's first letter to Dr Parker.
Dear Sir : Your letter, via- Biunswick, reach
ed me in this city about a week since, and only
feeble health, and the multiplied engagements of
anniversary week, have delayed my reply to this
ne.
Give me leave to assure you that yon have en
tirely misapprehended the purpose and spirit with
which I quoted the remark attributed to you with
your name. It had nothing to do with parsonal
teeliag, one way or the other. I simpV quoted
you as a well-known leading man, whom I sup
posed to be an acknowledged supporter of the pro
slavery side of the question ; and I quoted you in
preference to any of the other clergymen on that
side of the question, simply because the remark at
tributed to you was more neatly nnd pointedly ex
pressed, nnd more summarily included the who'e
subject, than any remarks of others l& the same
gnnetal purport.
In the chapter m which your remark occurs. I
considered myself as the advocate of the po r and
uneducated against the educated and the powerful.
I have ever considered the American Internal
Slave Trade as the vitui support of the system
that without which it would immediately be worth-
loss in a pecuniary point of view, and of course
cease to exist; and, therefore, 1 confronted the
sentiment with the diaiuat e reality cf the s-luve)
trade.
My reason for considering you on the pro-slavery
si le of the question, will be better appreciated by
y u, by showiug the manner in which I was fed to
that opinion. '
It is considerably more than a yenr ago that I
saw the sentence in question quoted in one of the
leading papers of the day with your name., I said
immediately thnt I did not believe you had said it.
and that I knew you would contmaiet i. I search
ed the papers week after week, with the' eye tf a
friend, for that denial. 1 only found the thing re
affirmed in paper after paper, both religious aud
secular. It was embraced in a schedule of the
sayings and sentiments of American mini.ters in
regard to slaveiy, which was rend at a public meet
ing in the World's Fair, and which formed a basis
of some considerable discussion and action on the
propriety of admitting American preachers, with
out, examination, into English pulpits.
These paperp, in which all this- was recorded.
were the leading religious prints pi ints which I
could not suppose you were not familiar wiih; and
I could not suppose that you would allow any sen
timent t go-the rounds of them, printed in capitals.
with your name in full, unless it were a statement
to which you were fully committed, and whieh
you were determined to abide by and sustuin. 1
therefore, wilh great regret, set you down in my
mind as a leader en that side of the question,, aud
quoted you as such and I think- that I bad reason
o do so.
If yon thought the imputation of this sentiment
a "stain on- your character, an injury to your
Christian and ministerial reputation, why have you
never before contradicted it? Why have you al-
'owed it quoted and re-quoted from paper topnper
proclaimed in s public meeting at the World's
FHir, nnd returned h capitals to this country, and
cot come out. with the urostenroest denial of which
you were capable 7
Yet your note was the first thndoie of any rea
son 1 have ever hud for thinking that this opinion
was not yours, and that you were not willing to be
considered on that side of the question.
Undnr this attitouVf you nrust perceive-that it fs
not in my power to set you right before n Christian
pubi c, who probably have formed thoir opinion
from the same sources tiom which I have formed
ine. Tbe quotation of it in the book is otily one
indication of that very general belief which at
tributes to you such- sentiments. And it is to the
Christian public generally, as I appichend, that
your denial of such sentiments und expressions
should be addressed and t9 them you should ex
plain why you have nHowod- j wureelf to- be so
publicly and frequently and notoriously ranged on
that side of the question; and why you have taken
no notice of what you say you consider as a "libel,"
wbeu it has been f very publicly and for sucii a
long timo' proclaimed m the ordinavy channels of
intelligence.
I need not say that a satisfactory explanation of
this metier would give me pleasure. It is no plea
pure to me to have it proved that' any minister of
Ihe Saviour could have said-such a thiug, and I
shall be siDoerrly glad to see you exonerated, be
fore the public, of Rny suoh impu'ntion. When
you shall have satisfactorily explained the subject,
I will Wilh pleasure do anything that may lie in
my power to obviate the niisooneo ptions lht have
arisen fiem your long silence. Truly yours.
H. B. Stowe.
Rev. Joel Parker.
The history of this somewhat famous sentence
is nearly this. In Ihe year 1816, a controversy of
sixteen weeks duration was held in the (Philadel
phia) Christian Observer, between Dr- Parker,
employing: the signature "O". R. Mrti-idionis,"
and Rev. A. . Rood. The sentence which we
hove already extracted oeeurredin that controver
sy.'"; now' (l has Changed into the popular and
current form. I do not know. ' It has- been told to
me thnt it was published at that time In the vari
eus Anti-Slavery Journals. .''...'
6
Wfcole Nnmber
By seme menns it appeared in England. When,
in- w of it and other not greatly dissimilar opin
ions of American, clergymen, the semi annual
Congregational Union ef Gloucestershire nnd BYis
to!, England, April 1851, adopted a resolution that
bore severely upon American clergymen who were
expected in London at the World's Fair and the
May Anniversaries, the wisdom of their action was
questioned, on the ground that no such atrocious
sentiments could be held by American clergymen,
as was si eged.
In reply to Iras', the Bristol Mercury, one of the
oldest and most widely circulated journals in ttie
West of England.published opinions Of Dr. Spring,
Dr. Wood, Bishop Hopkins, Dr. Dewey, Dr
Rogers of Boston, Prof. Stunrt and this sentence
ascribed to Dr. Parker. It has been eni to me
that the same was published in the British Ban
ner and the London Jlnti-Slavery Reporter but I
hnve not been able to verify the fact.
In this form the paragraph came back to Amer
ica in tbe letter of Agricola, the English corres
pondent of The Independent, nnd was published in
connection with the opinions of the afore mention
ed gentlemar., in Tfye Independent for May 15sh,
1852".
It was inserted in the annnual report of the Anti
Siavery Society, which, like ihe repwt of the Col
onization Soeiely, is made up of facts and docu
ments, whieh are supposed to have a permanent
and historical importance. A copy of this report
was sent to Dr. Parker, and he saw the passage,
and gave to me during onr only interview, as re.i.
sons for not noticing it, that he did not think, when
standing in connection with such names, that it
could produce an unfavorable impression on the
public miin but thnt it was very different when
he alone was singled out by Mrs. Stowe.
At this poii.t commences Sirs. Stowe's connec
tion wilh the matter. She inserted the paragraph
in Uncle Tom's Cabin, (which was first isfued in
weekly chapters.) in the National Ere, for AugustJ
28, 1851, wilh Dr. Parker's name in a note, iu alj
respects precisely as it stood afterwards in hor book.
The Era had a circulation at this time of about
17,000, and iu eveiy State in the Union.
Thus it stood, wiJhoct a word from Dr. Parker,
for eight months, until the 201ft of March, 1852,
when her ttory was published in book form at
Boston. From the 20ih of March, until the 8tht
of Mny, six weeks, not a word was heard. Bot&
Mrs Stowe and her friends had, hnd scruples as
to whether it was best thus to namo an individual,
as a tr?ter of public expediency, but none as to
the mere correctness cf that paragraph. And
Mrs. Stowe had supposed that sne had given or
ders to i en ove the name of Dr. Purker, when ihe
book was going through Jewctt's press.
The above letter of Mrs. Stowe's was sent by
the hnnd of J. T. Howard, Esq., to ihe Post Of
fice in New York, on Ihe 22d of May. Itappenrs
that Dr. Parker did not receive it until the 29lb.
I have never kcown the cause of the detent o"
Not receiving this lotter. Dr. Pa titer on the 25;h
of May, addressed Mrs. Stowe again.
Dr. Parker's third Utter to Mrs. Floice.
New York, 2' Leroy Px.ace,
May 33 185-3.
Ma D-'.tM i I have addressed1 to' you two com
munications respecting your holding me opto pub
lic odium. In each I have demanded nn open
and full retraction. You have not proposed any
reparation for the wrong, cor even deigned a re
ply. My loiters were under dote of the Eth and
19th inst. Sufficient time has elapsed. The
calumny is still spreading. I am sot bound in
justice to wait longer.
Yet it is my desire to exercise a spirit of Chi i3
tian forbearance. I sincerely derprecnte the neces
sity of placing you in an embarrassing position. I
beg of yeu, do- rot compel me to do so. I have
no resentment to gratify. Ida not wrsh, because
you have injurnd me, to injure you. On the con
trary, it will afford me great pleasure to be spared
the necessity of a pubi c conflict with a lady, a
professed Christian, and the wife of fa clergyman.
Though you can never repair the wrong you
have done, you can make sueh amends as will, if
made now, satisfy me. Should you find yourself
in difficulty hereafter, therefore, be pleased to re
membeT ikat it is not of my seeking. I greally
prefer thnt you should not compel me te appear
before the public in a conflict with you respecting
a matter which you can so easily bring to an am
icable adjustment, and ibst. loo, without doing
anything which one who has inflicted a wrong
ought not to regard as a pleasure to perform
Respectful ty,
Joei, P.rker.
Mrs. H. B. Stowe.
In the mean time, Mrs. StoWe1, Was making
every practicable inquiry to ascertain the origin of
this parngrngn, and ihe correctness or incorrect
ness of Dr. Parker's assertion in respect to it.
She was assured by clergymen personally eogni
znnt of the history of the matter, of tbe highest
respectability, personally nnd by letter, thnt she
had not dene injustice to Dr. Parker. Friends
in Philadelphia were written to;' the copies of tho
Christian Observer containing the origiiiRf articles
of Dr. Parker were solicited. I visited Dr. Hat
field, of New York, myself, who was of impres
sion that Mrs Stowe was correct : nnd as he was
on the eve of leaving for the N. S. Presbyterian
Gonerul Assembly at Wushirgton, I procured his
promise to see 5?r. Converse, editor of the Chtis-
lian Observer, nnd to invesfigate ihe facts
Through a friend, Mrs. Stowe wrote to the gen-
t'oirmn. Who was Dr. Parker's rrsrondent in the
controversy in which the language was said to have
been employed, nnd received from him the fol'ow-
ing brief note, which tie ufterw uids cot firmed by a
more elaborate letlerv
Dear Brother: t received ytfur ro'e, and'
called to see you. If Dr. P. denies ihe statement
made by Mrs, Stowe, it will bo strange. These
nre his exact words, used by him in our controver
sy : What are the evils that are in eparable fh-ivi
slavery ! There ia nt one that is not equally "
separable fiem depraved human nntuie in other
lawful relations." If Mrs Slowe uses ine or..
incidental. His probable lie founds uts Uemai on
thnt error.. I can furnish you with the number or
the Christian Observer, if you desire it.
Truly yours, A. Rood.
Such being the slnte of facts; upon the arrival of
Dr. Paraers third tetter, -urs otowe- regaraea it
as an affront an attempt at intimidating her, not
with a threntof pecuniary damages, but the pub
licity of a lawsuit, whieh might he supposed to oe
oae ot the thinga which a sensitive woman would
moat dread. Tbe very threat was rewon for
firmness, and .Mrs. Stow addressed Dr. Paikar
a second letter oa the iam day that Vhj..wa received-
' '. " '.;. "''". ' "'.
' , Mrs. Stowe's second letter to Dr- Parker;
' May 25.
Dear Sir : I mailed a repfy to your note ont
Saturday. If it has not reached you, it probably
is owing to my having mailed it for New York
simply, and will be found by a more particular in-
quiry at the post office.
Iu case you receive that you wiH be apprized of
my views; and in Case you do not, by addressing
a rote to my brother, Henry Ward Beeoher, a
duplicate of it can be forwarded to you. I an
sorry fir the delay.
In regnrd to the threats implied in your lette;
give me leave to say, that though, for many reas
ons, I thould regret a public encounter on this sub
ject, yet my conviction, derived from faete, docu
ments, and the testimony of living witnesses, is.that
such nn issue would be, fur more unfortunate for
you than for me. "With the knowledge that I have
note, it w entirely out ef witpower, conscientiously,
to say thnt I believe you have not uttered the sen
timents in question. I cannot help my convictions
in view of evidence; and I could not for ray own
brother make any public statement contrary to
those convictions. No personal feeling influences
mo. It is a matter of regret that I am obliged lo
think as I do. I would be very glad- to' think my
self mi3ta1ien!.
I repeat what I said in my letter, that the point
lies not between you and me, but you and the pub
lic y. u nnd men who bold in their hands the doc
uments in which this sentiment is Unequivocally as
serted. "When yeu can prove to the public and tor .
me, that these Sentiments are alt mistaken, and ac
count for your so long suffering this allegation te
lie npon you tinnetieed, I will wi,h the greatest
pleasure do anything yes shall request, to set yoa
right before ihe public. m
I leave towo on Thursday, and any future com
munications must be addressed to my brother, H.
W. Beecher, w&o is in full possession of the sub
ject. Yours, truly, H. B. Stow.
Rev. Joel Parker.-
This letter seems to have brought on the crisis
Dr.- Purker on that same evening solicited Benjiav
min F. Butler, Esq., to act as counsel in bringing
a suit for damages. Had Mr. Butler's most Chris
tian intentions towarch both parties prevailed, how
much pain and public reproach- would have been
spared! I am both glad and sorry to think that
the wish for peace was with the lawyer, and the;
wish f r a suit with the clergyman? ,
Mr. Butler, from an examination of lha facts,
wus satisfied that a private arrangement could ber
made. He solicited H. Barney, Esq., (his former
pa'tner, and a personal friend of miae.) to act as .
medii t ir. Mr. Barney, on the 26th of May, visit
ed M-. B. i rtr's house, and heard his and Dr. Par
ker's statements, and saw the documents. Her
beeime satisfied that Dr. Parker's complaint waa
well founded', nnd that Mrs. Stowe labored, under
a misappiehension. Oh the evening of the same
day he v'l ited me, nnd his oWn lelter, below, is the ,
best his ory of ti e interview. .
On that day I had received frora- PbiteduJpbia
copies of Dr. Purker's original artrcle; but bad not :
yet examined it. Mr. i-arney's statements had;
sueh effect upon my mind, that I immediately in
vestigated ihe documents; and on the pextday,6y
Mr. Butler's request, I visited him at his office.and
heard bis exposition, which only served to confirm
what the reading of Dr. Ptrker'e article had sat
isfied me was the fact, thnt he had been misunder
stood, nnd so misrepresented. ; , -
The same causes produced the same effect upon
Mrs. Stowe's m n I, and without a moment's delay
she addressed to Dr. Parker the following letter.
whieh ti e Observer represents as extorted from
her through the fear of pecuniary damages;
Mrs . Sioicc's third letter to Dr Parker.
Dear Sir: I take pleasure irr saying that a rew
view of your argument in the Christian Observer
has enabfed uie to see that your language, in the
case under consideration, is susceptible of a differ
ent and indeed entirely apposite construction from'
that which would strike the mind viewing k ia n
disconnected form. I think that I am tew futlv-
possessed of your real sentiments, nBderstand and
could explain them.
I am now disposed to ir.qu're what I can do to
place your position in its true light before the World;
and it appears to me exceedingly desirable that, in
decidiug that, we ttco shook! meet as Christians, in
accordance with onr Saviour's direction: "If thy
o.oiuer trespass against thee, go and tell him hi
fault between thee aud him alone.
I would like to see wrttrout lawyers or wit
nesses, and Ithinkyou will find that whatever my
sense of duly mny have led me to sny, my ft clings
have always been kiod, and that I am fully dispos
ed to do all I can in consistence with truth and sin
cerity. Truly, yours, - H. B. Stowe.
Our number is 12 Columbia street. Will yoti
be kind enough to say where and what time joa
can tr-eet me? 1 am disengaged any time between
now and ten o'clock on Monday morning.
Rev. Joel Parkef, -- - . .
Had Mrs. Slow known, when writing fhis fet
ter, that all tbe influences tending to a christian
settlement of this difficulty had emanated from
laicyers, instead of asking their exclusioohe might
have begced their presence.
Of this letter Dr. Farker says, in his letter dated
July 31, (Observer, Sept. 30,) "afier she (Ma.
Stowe) had learned that I had employed Mr. B.,
F. Butler as my counsel, she addressed a note to
me in- a milder tone, and this ted to an interview'
This is alt tlte rtatement which Dr. Parker gives
to the pubiic! Now, let this be campared with
another statement of Dr. Parker's, m a letter to
Professor towe.Sdated Jone 5th, written within a
few days cf the transactions now under considera
tion n letfer whioh the reader will find entire'
further on.-
'.'My counsel in tho mean time investigated the
whole case, rnd expressed a decided opinion that
the paragraph referred to in Mrs. Stowe's book,
was clearly libellous; but, id the hope that the
matter might yet be amicably adjusted without the
necessity tf a Icgil issue, he, at bis own nstanee,
though with my consent, solicited a conference
with his fi'rend Mr. Barney, not as a lawyer, but
ns a Christian nnd a friend of himself, end also of
Rev. H. W. Beeoher. '
" Mr. Barney's kind offices were secured. In.
ronsrqncnce. as 1 suppose,- of kis in exposition. Mr.
II. if. Beecher i-illed on my counsel, ond soon aflc'
Mrtf fStvtce addressed to me a communication of a
d:ff.rcnl and more koprful tone a letter containing
concessions, carefully gunrded indeed, but Bt ill con
cessions, wnh a request iu.c a wutuu can and see
her." The italics are ours.
Dr. Purker has still further perm'ttttd'.tH 06-
server (Sept 23) to say of this result, speaking ef
ilio employment of counsel s Th'ra was a UeW sr-
mmienl, which the author of Uncle Tom's Cbin'
had not expected. She addressed a note in gentle
terms," Sao. Now the reader will see, by glancing
at the second letfer of Dr. Parker, that Mrs. Stowe
had been expecting just such an issue since the..
19lh of May, for the close of that letter contains,
the threat of a suit or a public controversy, jut aa -plainly
ts the letter of the 23th. ,
But to all this representation we append the
following letter from Mr. Bareey, who cerraitdy
must be regarded aa witness oopape'ent to- teelify .
to the influences which he noiployed in bis en aud.
frora Dr. Parker to usi - - -'-
Afr, Wron Barney's Letier U H. tT, Blacker.
- . . BaooKtvris Sept- 30, 5852. ?
Dsar Sir: I cheerfully star the sultncev
of my interview with yoa on the 86th.o.Way last;,'
.i.:'.' "w.... - -' ' -r'"1"