Will nobody stop these Beechers? Here is Mrs. Stowe getting
into trouble again. The "Christian Watchman " has his eye on her.
Jesus of Nazareth was a dangerous innovator in his day, but what is he to Mrs.
Stowe? He only sat at meat with publicans and sinners, but she is actually
announced to write a novel in the same “Atlantic Monthly” which [endorses] . . .
a man who says, "If we do our duty manfully in this world, we need give
ourselves no great anxiety about our fate in the next one!”
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* “Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in book form on
March 20, 1852.
SOURCE: Mary Potter Thacher Higginson, Editor, Letters
and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1846-1906, p. 54
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