Mrs. Stowe will probably learn when it is too late, that she cannot work out the salvation of the slave population by misrepresenting slaveholders,—­by exciting sympathy in the North, and by arousing feelings of wrath and defiance in the South.  “The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.”  She may inculcate disobedience and open resistance to the laws of her country; but so did not Jesus Christ; so did not St. Paul.  Go, woman, to your Bible and learn your duty to your Creator and your fellow creatures, before you write another book.  They, (Jesus Christ and St. Paul,) enforced obedience to the ruling authorities, “Render unto Caesar, the things that are Caesars; and let every soul be subject to the higher powers;” is the language of Divine Inspiration.  Mrs. Stowe belongs to that faction in the North, long known as the abolition party, and would not scruple to bring about the emancipation of the slaves by any means, regardless of consequences.  She would not, I suppose, hesitate to force emancipation on the South, at the point of the bayonet, regardless of the murders, rapines, rapes—­the indiscriminate butchery of unoffending women and children—­the overthrow of the Union, and the introduction of lasting hates and civil wars, and the ultimate massacre and extinction of the entire African race!!  Great God, what atrocious crimes have been perpetrated in the name of liberty!!!  She does not, however, openly advocate these extreme measures in her book, but there is, nevertheless, a squinting in that direction in several places.  In inculcating resistance to the laws of her country, she is virtually advocating a dissolution of the Union, with all its attendant consequences, results and horrors.  For whenever we cease to observe the solemn compact that binds us together, then the Union must necessarily be dissolved, and civil wars, with all its calamities, must follow!!  Mrs. Stowe will pardon me if I should perchance, inferentialy saddle on her some things, that will make the vital fluid curdle in her veins; unless she is dead to all those emotions of soul which characterize her sex.  As I find her in bad company, I am forced in the absence of better testimony, to judge her from the company in which I find her.  The old Spanish proverb is as true as Holy Writ, viz., “Show me the company you keep, and I will tell you who you are.”  If she chooses to write novels, and bring grave charges against others by insinuation and innuendo, in order to evade the responsibility of defining her position clearly and openly, she will not, I hope, take offense if I define it for her.

Mrs. Stowe asserts that there are no laws in slave States to protect slaves, and to punish the cruel and brutal outrages of masters.  That masters can cruelly beat their slaves, and also murder them with impunity!  This is untrue—­nothing could be more false.  In the eye of the law, there is no difference between the man that murders his slave, and the man that murders his neighbor; and the