ABSTRACT
Before touching the Key, however, people have a preliminary remark to introduce, which may seem foreign to their immediate subject, but is most intimately combined with it as explaining and perpetuating the agitation which Mrs. Stowe has been able to excite. On a former occasion we refused to deny or call in question the particular facts which were woven into the texture of Uncle Tom's Cabin; people denied only the truth of the representation produced by the arrangement and colouring of those facts, and the justice of the inferences proposed to be drawn from them. Under these circumstances we might with grace and propriety leave any further notice of Mrs. Stowe and her faggot of delusions to those who have sacrificed the cause of the South, notwithstanding their good intentions, and have afforded to her the prospect of an easy triumph by joining issue with her on the false grounds which her first work very dexterously suggested.
