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Smooth Things.
" And they said, ' Speak unto us smooth things' "
A people, long restlessly sitting . ....
- - "i ' With consciences under a chain;
Grown weary, at last; of submitting.
Once vowed to be freemen again,
But now they have grounded their weapons,
While each to his manacle clings:
Do you marvel my friends, how it happens?
Their rulers have told them -' smooth things!
A Church, in her just indignation!
Rose up, at a blasphemous Law;
And resolved, from unholy relation
With the compact of sin. to withdraw.
' But now, with hands folded in meekness,
"Peace, peace," is the song that she sings;
Why endeth her real thus in weakness ?
Her preachers have spoken "smooth things!"
Not thus the disciples of Jesus
May bow when the wrong doer nods;
" Give to Cs3sar fee things which are Caesar's,"
But give not rAe send, which is God's!
Never duty with conscience can vary.
Nor Peace over Wrong fold her wings; -Be
wary, oh brothers, be wary,
" Lest ye barter God's truth for " smooth tldngs."
Edinburgh, Nov. 1852. -
Ecncvoleuce and Gratitude.
. . . A TRUE STORY
It was a raw bleak night; the rain was falling
fast, while the wind blew in violent gusts. A
Portsmouth night-conch Btopped at the pricipal
inn of the town to change horses. The cold and
wearied travellers alighted for a few minutes to en
joy the comfort of a blazing fire, as well aa to take
refreshments.
"Will you give a poor fellow a night's shelter in
yaur hay-loft?" asked a weather beaten sailor, ad
dressing one of the ostlers who was fastening the
harness. - ' . '
- 'No, not to such as you," answered the man;
yon hud beter make the bett of yonr way off, or
you'll get ' more than you look for," if yon prowl
about here any longer. '
Perhaps, young man', replied the tar, 'yon may
one day be sent adrift upon the world, without a
penny to keep 'your head above water; and as to
honesty I know better than to take what is not my
own if I had not a shoe to my fuot.' ' - - -
I wouldn't trust yon farther than I could ?ee you,'
s?iid the ostler, 'and if you don't be off, I'll make
you.' ' ' ' ' " '
- Poor Jack was turning away, hungry snd footsore
when he was tapped on the shoulder by a lad who
acted as stable boy. 'If you were to go down the
the road to the first little shop you .come to,' he
said, 'Widow Smith would, I dare say, let you
sleep in her wood house; she is a good old creature,
and is'nlwnys ready to help any one in distress.'
'Thnnk you, thank you,' said the sailor.
These few words caused a revulsion of feeling
in the breasts of the foi lorn "stranger; they told
him tl'Bt there still were hearts in which kindness
flowed. ' ' ' ' - - '
John p Willis, on coming ashore, had been robbed
of his little all, a thing of no uncommon occurrence,
anfl he was now compelled to beg his way to Lon
don. HeS deeply felt the rebuffs ho frequently
mi;t with. The prevalence of imposition fr equent
ly Tenders it hard for those who are realy in need
to getholp, for their truthfulness is ofien questioned
"Jack followed the directions given him, but he
found the shop, closed, He felt that it was an
unseasonable hour; still the favorable account that
he had recicved of its owner, encouraged him to
ap at the door. His summons was answered by the
oithy dame- who, having listened compassionately
o his tail of sufuiings, bade him enter and share
her frugal ineaU
. '. .... . ...
1 tie tar entertainea nia benevolent nostess wun a
recital of theishiiiwrecks he had witnessed, and the
narrow escapes he had himself bad And she
piously diroc'ieJsJJjis mind to the good Providence
which had predeiwed him to the present hour, and
ie Saivior who hail died to redeem him. The
repast ovi-r, the widow placed some cleau dry tt aw
in one corner of a shed attached to her dwelling,
and with a . thankful heart the wearied traveler
; retched hiroself upon it, aod slept as soundly as
if on a bed of down.
Befote continuing hij journey in the morning,
Jack looked in to thank the good woman for the
shelter the had given him; he found, however, a
warm meal awaiting him. Having partaken of it,
ccepted a few cents to help him on his way, ha
eparted with a hearty benediction from his hos
tess.:-
Ten years, and the little incident here recorded
had long escaped the memory of all save one.ofthe
parties concerned. Ten years had wrofight may
changes in the town and most of the inhhbitarjts
utthey had glided gectly;over the head ol Widow;
Smith. The only alteration perceptible in ner
was that her hair had become more sdvery, and
her form was now slightly bent. She still. contin
ued her labors of love; and though her means were
very limited, she was looked upon as the friend
and neighbor of all who were sick, or in want.-
One morning a large official looking let'er
was put into Mrs. Smith's hand by the postman.
Its purpott was to beg her attendance ia London
on the following day, when the writer said she
would receive gratifying intelligence'Which it
was wished tocommuiibate to herself personally.
Much consulting and gossiping"ehsued. One of
her neigbhors thought ii'o hoax, ti p'ay the old
lady, a trick, anothe Er.id it would be 1 ighly
imprudent for a womiwnHDf her years to take
such a journey, especially to trusl herself alone
in such a wicked place as London: while o third
was quite sure that the wri'er had some evil
design. It did appear a formidable undertaking
to one who had never ftrnyed ten miles from her
native place. The widow's credulity had often
been imposed upon, yet she would believe any
thing but that any , one would intentionally
deceive or wrong her, , She had great con
fidence, too, in the protecting providence of
God, whom she served in humble dependence on
His grace in Christ, and therefore felt no fear
in complying with the . request in the letter.
Wherefore, notwithstanding the ridicule of
some, and the remonstrance of others Ihe good
damesiarted by the first coach which pnssed
through'on the morrow, and reached London in
lime to meet the appointment.
The address given her was at an inn, nnd on
arriving there she was immediately ushered
into a private apartment, where two respectable
looking men were waiting to receive her. The
widow's surprise waa increased when one of
them accoBted her with the familiar phrase,
If
a
RxlVENNA, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 24,
How do you d mother? Don't you remember
me, my worthy!' added "hey in answer lo her
half frightened, inquiring glance. '1 am Jack
Willis, ihe sailor you housed and fed ten years
ago, when -he had neither money nor friends, I
am now cut ttin of a merchantman; and this
gettleman,' miring to his companion, 'wil', in
my njme, do the needful .o set'le an annuhy of
fi'ty dollars npon you as proof vf my grai udo
for your kindness, and especially for your good
advice, which 1 hope, by God's mercy, led me
to think of Christ, and trust ia bim for su!-
vauHi-' f
The widow, unable to give) utterance to the
emotion of her swelling heart, burst into tears.
Widow Smith returned to her cottage home,
thankful lo God lor his blessing on her humble
efforts to ben fit a fellow creut ire in body and
soul and for his bountiful care for her,nnd deligh
ed that shi had now incresed means of useful
ness; and never after did site li-ten to n tale of
B'ifFdring without thinking of poor Jack Willi-.
London Tract Magazine. . .
Reply of Henry Ward Becclior
To he Ulrietures of the .Veto York Observer, upon
the allusion made in " Uncle Tom's Cabin " to
the Rev. Joel Pa: her.
Concluded.
I enclosed the correspondence to Mrs. Stowe,
and wrote the following note to accompany it,
which note is certainly not reverent as it should be,
but it shows the honorable intentions I entertained
towards Dr. Parker
After criticising her card, 1st as attempting to
do too many thing ; 2.1, as on that account failing
to produce the impression which ehe desired, 1
proceeded to say
3. When any apology is made before the pub
lic, it ought to be so explicit as at once to gain, for
the maker the eredit of honesty, frankness, and
honor; nnd then, if afterwards you have aught to
say, it will be kindly taken.
Nevertheless, I took it to Joel. He made wry
faces. Wa tinkered a little, as vou will see. and
in this shape he agreed to let it go. But I felt
bad about it. I said to him, " Mr. Parker, I don't
like the whole thing. If you will give me pen and
ink, and leave me alone, I will write one to my
mind." So I wrote the enclosed, i. e. two letters
as from bim, and one as from y-u. . I am satisfied
that these will make a good impression.
You will see that you do not commit yourself
as to whether he ever paid, in any oilier contro
versy, this thing. . You express a judgment made
up upon documents presented, uesides, 1 am
quite satisfied that he has been misrepresented in
that regard. That being the case, I desire much
an unequivocal statement on that poiot. Then,
the statement of the way in which you got hold of
the thing will have force, both to exculpate you,
and to show that he brought the infliction on his
own bead. .
f If you approve this, send a copy in your hand
writing to Wm. Harned,' A. S. Rooms, 43 Beck-
ninn street, New York, and he -will gee to its in
serttoo in Tribune, Er,, Itidapen Jont.
Truly yotrrsy - - H. W. B.
I leave for Indiana Monduy.
This letter is decisive of my feelings and inten
tions towards Dr. Parker, and my only hesitation
about publishing it is, lest it should seem that I
was too severe with Mrs. Stowe. But our disa
greement was never for a moment as to the fact of
public reparation, nor as to tohat should be that re
paration ; but simply as to how' much or how little
collateral explanation had better be given. Mrs
Stowe was never inclined, aa Dr. Parker says.
"to insist upoa adding to the concessions other
matter relating to what she considered my position
in respect to the subject of blavery." All that
Mrs. Stowe wished on this point was to show ex
actly what Dr. Parker's position and argument
bud been on the subject of slavery,. in the original
controversy,' Tioru which the language quoted in
her book w a supposed to be derived ; and where
the drift of his argument gave a very different con
struction to his words fiom what they would have,
etanding alone. Mrs. Stowe had no wish to define
his general belief, or his personal relutious to slu-
very. And her difficulty-was, that Dr. Parker
thought she ought, while she thought she ousdit not
to take 6aie to hercelf.iu any card to be published.
A third ern'mrrussnifitnd the only other, was
Aotr, frankly,to retract in" regard to the language
U3ed in the controversy, loitlwut positively declar
ing, what she would not declare, that Dr. Parker
had never used such language aa that attributed to
him. Her letter is explicit on that subject.
Here my agency in this transaction is closed ;
I left for the West. On my way borne, finding
the correspondence in a copy of the Tribune, in
Cincinnati, I then firat learned Mrs Stowe's decis
ion and action in this mutter. On reaching Brook
lyn, i cannot tell whether amazement or indigna
tion was the strongest, on reading tho following
letter from Dr. Parker to Pruf. Stowe, which had
boen sent to me by Mrs. Stowe.
A Dr. Parker to Prof. Stowe.
New York, June 30, 1852.
Mr Deab Sir : Are you aware of the fact that
the letters published in the Tribune and Indepen
dent as purporting to have boen written by myself,
were not written, nor signed, nor sanctioned by me?
They were drawn up by the Rev. H. W,
Beecher, and when read by me I expressed the
idea that they might, wilh some vindication, lead
to Ihe settlement of the difficulty. I proposed that
Mr. Beecher should show them to my counsel,
Mr. Butler, and that thoy should be made the sub
ject of a future consider.ttion. .
This was the underslaouing wnen we separated
I mean Mr. Beecher and myself. I have heard
nothing from Mr. Beecher or Mrs. Stowe since,
till, to my astonishment, I learned that these let
ters had been published without modification, with
out my knowledge or consent.
I am not aware whetner mr. ceecner saw my
counsel or not. I have maao repeated enorts to
see Mr. Butler aince my return, for I have been
absent. But he has been out of town, and I have
as yet learned nothing from him. 7
It has appeared to me unwise to come out and
deny publicly the authorship of the letters ascrib
ed to me. They may have got to the press by
some mistake of a third person to whom they may
have been intrusted, for I cannot yet believe Unit
either Mr. Beecher or Mrs. Stowe would inten
tionally authorize their publication, and I prefer
that Mrs. Stowe should have the privilege of ex
plaining the mistake, rather than she should appear
to have done a thing so extraordinary as to publish
letters over my name without either my signature
or consenb
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It has seemed to me, all along, that it would I
have been well fur you to have come and seen me
about this business. I cannot consent to stand be- 1
lore the public as one soliciting it as a favor from
Mrs. Stowe to set me right before the public. I
wish her to set herself right in respect to what she
has done in relation to me. I am -not impatient.
I allow time. . But it is not a matter for comprom
ise, as it there, were wrong on both sides. 1 do
not wish to afflict Mrs. Stowe, and would not
knowingly consent to her doing anything, on my
account, that would not be, under the circumstan
ces, the very best thing for her character and her
reputation as a Christian woman. Had you not
better come on aod see me I I have, had my full
share of trouble about the business, aod in my
earnestness to settle the matter amicably, I have
borne much more than my friende thiuk I ought to
have done. I have no doubt that you and 1 could
settle the whole affair, by a conference of an bour
or two, and I quite agree with you that it would be
a great shame that we should have any sort of pub
lic conflict in relation to it. With- great respect,
youis, truly,'. ":- - --. - - Joel Parker..
Rev. C. E. Stowe, D. D. .
About this time Dr. Parker had given his ver
sion of this mutter to Mr. Converse, editor of the
Christian Observer, Phdadelphia, and in the lost
number oi that paper, Oct. 2J, 1852, the following
editoriul account is given :
Mrs. Stove and Dr. Parker.
Some months since, our attention was called to
a misrepresentation of Dr. Parker's language and
sentiments in one of the foot notes of " Uncle
Tom's Cabin." At the same time we were toJ
that Dr. P. had written to Mrs. S., requesting her
to retract the mis-statement. We were also ad
vised that Mrs. S. was not disposed to make the
correction required nnd that Dr. P. put the nut
ter into the hands of an able counsel for adjust
ment. About the last of June, a correspondence
appeared in some of our exchange papers purport
ing to be copies of letters between Dr. P. and Mrs.
S., amicably settling the difficulty.' We read the
letters with amazement! We were surprised
that Dr. P. should permit Mrs. S. or any one ' to
set" him " right before the public" in the style of
Mrs. S.'s letters, or that he should ever ask to be
"allowtd" to publish such a letter! ' Meeting with
Dr. P. shortly after, he assured us, in answer to
some inquiry, that these letters were forger-
ies ! that he neither wrote them, nor signed them,
nor consented to their publication; and that Mr.
Beecher had caused them to be published without
his consent !
" Why, then, do you not expose the forgery ?
we asked. Dr. P. replied, in substance, that the
exposure would be discreditable or scandalous to
the ministry and that he wished to avoid any
thing that might be the occasion of reproach to the
ministry or religion. It was then our intention to
publish nothing about the matter; but as it is now
spread abroad, we think it due to those concerned
to state the facts contained in this article. ,
The italics and capitalization are the Christian
Observer's. "
On the same day that Dr. Parker wrote to Pro
fessor S;ove, as above, he wrote. to my venerable
father, Dr. Lymaa Beecher, of Boston : and the
cool leci'al to a father of his son's agency in
transaction which he pronounces a forgeet, must
forever stand as a model.
Dr. Parker to Dr. Lyman Beecher.
New York, June 30, 1352.
Rev. asd Dear Sib : Your very kind letter
came duly to hand, I delayed responding to it,
because I hoped in a short time to be able to con.
gratulate you and myself, and all concerned, by
saying that the whole difficulty was settled. But I
am afraid now it is further off than ever. - .
The publication of these letters was very ex
traordinary. Still, I hope it can be explained. I
have written Dr. Stowe fully to day. You will
probably see the letter. '
I have no doubt, if I could see him or yourself
one hour, the whole affair could be adjusted.
I appreciate all you say of my rights and charac
ter being dear to you.' I Irust you most confident
ly, and do not wish to occasion you a single sen
sation of discomfort, 1 suppose you have seen the
letters the correspondence published in- The
Tribune and The Independent. You could not,
of course, have known before hand, that they were
drawn up by your son, H. AV. Beecher, and that
they were without my signature, as a mere form
of negotiation, to be revised.
I never could have consented to their publica
tion, till they were modified. How they came to
be published, I do not know. I hope and trust
that it was not intentional; that it resulted from
some mistake of a third party, to whom they may
have been intrusted for conference with me, and
such modifications as Mrs. Stowe nnd myself
might mutually consent to. If so, Mrs. Stowe
ought to know immediately that no such person
ever came to me.
I have no-doubt that a full conference either
with yourself or Professor Stowe would set every
thing right. Yours, affectionately,
Joel Parker.
In this congeries of letters, was one one other
of July 31, to the New York Observer, and which
was published in that paper Sept. 30, 1852.
Dr. Parker toJVeu York Observer.
New York, Jtjf 31, 1852
Mr Dear Sir : On returning frtyji he country
tins atternoon, l louna your note oi tue o.n nisi.
on my table. The correspondence to which you
refer, purporting to be a correspondence between
myself and Mrs. H. B. Stowe, was drawn op by
Rev. H. W. Beecher, as a proposed basis of set
Iliac the difficulties between myself and Mrs,
Stowe. That is to say, Mr. Beecher proposed
that we should, both Mrs. Stowe and myself, adopt
theso letters as ours. I agreed o have it under
advisement, and encouraged the expectation that
wifft some modification, we might settle the whole
matter by $ome such method. Mr. Beecher took
the paper wliich Mrsi Stowe had not aeenj and to
which neither of us had affixed our signatures, and
I heard nothing further of .the matter till, to my
utter amazement, the letters, were published, with
the names ofthe parties affixed. -.Whether they
were the same or not, I do not 'know J I had no
copy. ' 1 presume they were nearly, the same, it
not in every word. But those ascribed 'to me
were never adopted by mei and I never could have
been induced to sign them as. they were, norto
aooept of Mrs. Stowe's as saiiafabtory.
Mrs. Stowe refused evenloanswer my letters
till I had written her the third time. Then 1 ernf
ployed my counsel, and resolved to commence a
suit for libel. Before she knew my purpose, she
wrote a note in a defiaut tone, and affirmed that
her conviction, derived from fasts and documents,
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and the testimony of living witnesses, was that
such an issue would prove fur more unfortunate
for me than for hurKpIF.
After she had learned that I had emnloved Mr.
Benjamin F. Butler as my counsel, she addressed
a note to me in a milder tone, ond this leu to an
interview, in which she admitted that she had im
puted to me words and sentiments which 1 had
not put forth. She never has shown herself wilt
ing to make a simple reparation of the wrong as it
is, and justifies herself by saying the language was
imputed to me in American journals," and not
denied by me, when she knows that they were
abolition newspapers, which I did not suppose were
believed in this country, where their chaimcter
was known. Yours, trulv. J. Parker.
In reply to Dr. Parker's letter to Professor
Stowe, Mrs. Stowe wrote this, the last of her let
ters iu this most painful and extraordinary histoty.
Jlfra. Stowe's closing letter to DrS Parker:
Brunswick, July 2, 1852.
' Dear Sir : As your lelter addressed to my bus-
band is one that I can answer better than he. I
shall now reply to i"by stating fo you, briefly, ah I
know ot the matter under consideration.
The card which I sent to my brother contained
what 1 then supposed and do still suppose to be a
fuirand justexposition of the whole state of the case.
I received a letter in reply, from my brother, in
which he stated that he had shown that card to
you; that you and he had together variously amend
ed and altered it in regard to expression, until you
were brought to some degree of unanimity upon it.
tviy orotlier then went on to say, that he said to
you" Mr. Parker, the wording of this does not
exactly please me, and I think if you will give me
uoeny io araw up a torm, I can produce one that
will give satisfaction to both sides." " Ha went on
to say, that he now sent me this form, which, if I
was willing- to accede to and adopt as my language,
I was to copy with my own handwriting, and send
to the care of Mr. William Harned.who would
see to its insertion in the Era, Tribune, and Inde
pendent. ' ' '
i was oi tne opinion, at the time, that the "card"
which I had sent was a more just and fair expose
of the subject, and I shuuld have much preferred
ita publication. But I thought that if ynu were
willing to consent to this adjustment, I ought to be
willing nlso, and upon consideration I came to the
conclusion that it was Ihe best expression which
could be given.
In it you wore represented as acting with the
courtesy and dignity which becomes a Christian
man of honor, and I expressed what I sincerely
feel a pleasure in repairing any unintentional in
justice which I might have done you.'
Nothing could have been more surprising than
the receipt of yonr letter. ' You will perceive at
once that the case lies between you and my broth
er Henry, who, judging from the tone of his letter
to me, considered himself to be acting with al'
kindness, fairness, and good faith, as. he always
does acC I think he will be equally surprised
with myself to learn that you do not consider your
self to have assented to these letters
My dear sir, there are some few things inJhis
matter, that you kr.-ow .perfectly well, for 1 know
tnat you were satisfied of them at the time we had
our interview. In the first place, that the remark,
as published, was published io no personal unkind
ness whatever; that it was published as a senti
ment to be replied to In it dramatic argument, for
everybody knows that that is the character of the
article. And your name was given, simply as thfl
name ot a leading man who was known to have
puDiicly advanced that sentiment. , I had no possi
ble means of knowing that the sentiment was not
yours, and the very at ranee's) evidence for believ
ing mat it was, since yon tod allowed it in silence
to become a historical document. Y"ou know, and
I know, that you have used lansungn whieh,- when
placed side by side with whet I quoted, is such
that Dot one man in ten can be made to see any
difference. I know this, because I have tried
earnestly and sincerely to explain to sensible men
What you did mean by the language which vou
admit that you used, and it has failed to produce
any impression on them except this that it is a
esmtical construction of language, by which either
of two opposite assertions can be claimed as the
writer's sentiments according to emergencies. :
1 can still publish the facts of the case just as I
wrote them first, whnt you did nof say ; second,
what you did say ; third, the evidence that you
knew the construction which the world waa putting
upon your language, and yet that you did not con
tradict it. But I certainly think that the whole
matter is in a more creditable form to you now,
than if I should 66 so.
I have done what I consider to be perfectly
honorable and fair to remove an imputation for
which you have given too much occasion. ...
You know perfectly well, Mr. Parker, for I told
yon f.nnk'y that I did not consider myself to have
acted wrong in this matter, but simply to have
fallen into a mistake, which your siience rendered
unavoidable, ond I consider myself to have said all
that you can possibly expect from me under the
circumstances. When my brother returns, which
will be soon, you will probably discuss fairly with
him whatever strikes you as objectionable in his
part of the proceeding. Yours, very truly, ,
R9v. Mr. Parker. . H. B. Stowk.
And now it is not to be concealed that Dr. Par
ker and I stand before the public at issue, upon a
question of personal vernciry. And those who do
not fall upon the convenient theory of a mutval
misunderstanding, must determine the issue by the
pei sonnl character of the parties. But so odious
a necessity as this, is somewhat alleviated by some
considerations to which I call attention.
1. When Dr. Parker avers that he agreed to
have the latters "under advisement, and encour
aged the expectation that with some modification,
we might settle tho matter by some such method,"
(see letter of July 31, to New York Observer,) he
has fatally entrapped himself. For I now have it
in my power to show that such statements were
morally impossible.
A train of events, beginning with Dr. Parker s
counsel, and not with us, had led to several private
interviews; had satisfied Mrs. Stowe of her error;
had settled her determination to make a public, re
paration. She and Dr. Parker could not agree as
to the form. She went to New Haven to rest,
and there calmly to review the Whole ground, and
settle with harself what statement she would make.
She sent that statement; declared it to be an ulti
matum; gave me liberty to "change the phraseolo
gy, but not the spirit of the thing; and declares: "I
am well pleased with it it is all! will do if he
won't have this, I will publish it and he may do
what he likoa." Now, let it be considered wheth
er this is the language (or the letter which I wrote
afterward) of persona who feared a suit, who were
"
negotiating to avoid one, or whether negocialion of,
any Sort Was my errand to Dr. Parker.
, 1 was sent to read him a card that was to bet '
published whether he liked it or not, and whleb
was to be changed only as to phraseology. 1 wesr-
not sent to ask him whether her would take socb
and such an apology, in lieu of $20,000 damages;
Instead; I was to say, "This is to be substantially"
published,- at any rate; but we wish to place yon a
far as we Can, without compromising our ownf
sense of what hi right for us to do; - At my sag
gestion and his urgent, request, a substitute was
written" in Epistolary form. Now Dr. Parker does?
not Say that he asked time to consider which of the
two papers ho bad rather have published (nay he
has withheld in any letter lhat there was a card at
all, and he has never once' mentioned, in either of
the four letters, that the letters were written itf -his
own study, doling a friendly conference be
tween us,) but he Bays that he promised to take)
these letters under adoisement. This statement;
stamps his story with inveracity. For I -did not
come to ask for a settlement. I came to make a
card which was , to be published at any.ratej aa
agreeable to him as could be, consistently, with itst
substantial atermdnts. "Had. he therefore' mads
the remark whioh he says, or any remark of th
same krad, my - answer must have been r Dr'j
Parker,-1 did not ask you whether you would Con
sent to have these published, but simply whether
you had rethet I should ptsbUsh Mrs. Stowe's apol- -
Ofrv. in thft nhnntf r,r tf.la ,n .Via ctinnA nf
this corresji n len e? : ..'-. -
" 2. Aside from the intrinsic evidence, there bap-
pens to be an extrinsic circumstance bearing upon
it. I was on the eve of a visit to Indiana. To me'
had been committed by Mrs. Stowe the final dis
position of this affair.- - Whatever I did, must bei
done at once. Is it to be supposed that I should
have beer nut off to an uonpoiritl and indefinite
settlement, xhl n' t notice the fact; or reply to Dr;
Parker that such a thing was impossible, that I had
no time for further tonference 1 ' , : i
The public Will require a word of explanation as
to my reason for gcing thence to Mr. Butler.
When Mr.- Bat 16 r was applied to to take tins case,
and had seen the documentary evidence, such, was
his confidence in Mrs. Stnwe's integrity and Chris
tian honor', snM such was his conviction that there)
was evidence that she had misrepresented Dr. F.
tbat he Was" confident that a private settlement
might be had, if Mrs. Stowe could be Snt rightly'
approached?. ' 1 htfd understood,' at toy ictervieWf
with Mr. Barney, that! when Dr. Parker applied
for counsel1, Mr. Butler made it the condition of hi
undertaking the case, that Paiker should take no
steps ia this matter without first consulting him.i--.v '
I may Have beefi' slightly inaccurate as to the1
point; but, whether 1 was or not, that too my un
dorstanding.- When Dr. Parker said that he was
satisfied with the correspondence provided hist
counsel assented, I saw the reason, and 1 instant!
said, then I will go immediately to Mr. Butler.
It was not to obtain any authority from him for
nnblishing- the letters, nor to obtain1 his Agreement
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lllali 111 WUUIU UUb U!lHg DUIl, UU, IU UUbt Jt . . W.
kei's approval of the le:tars effectual, by obtaining
his counsel's consent for him to act in this, in the
settlernent of the matter, if he wished." .-, :v
3; But there is another suggestion which wilf
satisfy a business man that Dr. Purker's story is!
intrinsically absurd.' r
His statement is, that he had obtained counsel
to b I ig suit for $20,000 damages; that I roROEn"
letters as a settlement of that Suit, and published
them in the' daily papers without his knowledge or
consent! And al this was done also without ob-
taining a written relinquishment of clain foe dam
ages, should he yet choose to bring su'iu Didmor
tal man ever before dream of a published forgery
as a pacification of an angry li.igat'oc; or of a Cr
ger publ'-shing his act, so that the- aggrieved party,
would infallibly find it- out. the next morning; and
doing it in a way that U!tho door opes to the -very
suit which he is snppotjrto have dreaded; and not
only left it open to him, but heaped by such preTO
cation, fresh fuel upon his zeal 89 a prosecutor
Had I done such a crazy deed, I engbt not tdhave)
been blamed, but sent to a lunatic atyVnro. And '
anv norsnn that will believe thai a minister of ths
Gospel, in circumstances the most prosperous, -would
imperil his reputation and every interes-irj
life, upon such a bore-fated folly as that, ought tC
doubt his own sanity. But I am ashamed to rea
son on such a matter.' . . ,
The N. Y. Observer has chosen Hamao for its'
model, and built a gallows to hang me upon. : The
Lord has been pleased to deal with me as he dial
with Mofdecfiij and 1 am pained to see the Obser
ver swing in the" gibbet reserved for me;- " ' ''
A. Btit I have 'not yet done; There is now an
account which the .public have to settle with the'
guilty parties Who' have dragged from honorable'
privacy tl hi affair, at n brought a shame and. re-'
proach to Christianity by publishing ik I wash my
han-l? tff blame'. ' . .'
What was the state of things when Dr. Parkiir
brought this matter to the publio ear? Was he)
suffering in ruputntion? His name had been eras-
i r . a. , , f . . .
ea irom ine noos; lurs. otavye uaa conterreu ami
cably with him as to rt publio reparation-, all the
grievances of which the Observer makes so much,
v'174. Mrs. Stowe's obstinate silence, had been ex
plained and .dropped; an apology had appeared id
the publio prints, which had struck the public mind
as most christian and satisfactory; and by his own!
showing, there was but thi3T5bjection thst ha had
not sig ed the letters of prefix or suffix, which were
at any rate but the machinery of introducing the
main thing, Mrs. Stowe's retracli n. . Dr. Parker
knew too, that in so far as Mrs. .Stowe was con
cerned, she had acted most innocently and in good
faith, and that if any one was to blame, I was the
man; and that she had acted honorably, not only,
but bad yielded her judgment, and consented for
whnt she supposed was his wish, and taken these)
letters instead of her own card. Now, admitting
the gross construction put npon- my conduct, did
that justify Dr. Parker, as a man of honor, in rip
ping up and publishing to the world on ex parte
statement of all the grievances ha had had- with
Mrs. Stowe, and which, in so far as it lay in her
power, she had settled! N Dr. Parker in thia thing
stands before the public as a man-who negociates
rrrivalclu with Mrs. Stowe, until he had obtained
from her a publio concession of his injuries.
and then, availing himself of an informality,
turns about and exposes her to obloquy and re
proach, by publishing a garbled statement of, alt
these grievances which her publio retrnctioa was .
procured to heal ! - . ' -
5. Conclusion. -
When the New i ork Observe represents Dr.
Parker as offering evidence to Mrs. Stowe, in the
first instance, to satisfy her that she was In error.
it is shown that it stated an Untruth; when it de
clares that Mrs. S. "took no aotioe of his letter,
it is proved to have stated an untruth, when it says
that she deigned no reply to his second letter, , it
'states an nntrutht when it deolares that Mrs, S.
was induced only by fear of a libel suit to coma to
terms, it states an untruth; when. Dr. Parker, io
his lelter to the Observerintimates the same thing,
he brings himself into conflict with his own state
raent respecting the-same thing, given lit his letter
to Prof. Stowe. When Joel Parker and,, the N.
Y. Observer state that the published letters were
not written by Dr. Parker, nor signed by XT. t s
ker.lhey do at length state a truth; but when they"
state they were not approved by him with tbe un
demanding that they were to be published, they
state aa tofatruth. When they both neglect to ey
a word of Mrs. Stowe's card; of the orisih of the-