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Lands of the Slave and the Free

CHAPTER XI
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As an illustration of the excitement produced, I subjoin an extract from one of their daily papers, under the heading of "Mrs.Stowe in Great Britain:"-- "The principles of free government developed here, and urging our people on with unexampled rapidity in the career of wealth and greatness, have always been subjects of alarm to monarchs and aristocracies--of pleasure and hope to the people.

It has, of course, been the object of the former to blacken us in every conceivable way, and to make us detestable in the eyes of the world.

There has been nothing since the revolution so well calculated to advance this end, as the exhibition which Mrs.Stowe is making in England.
"It is because they have a deep and abiding hostility to this country, and to republicanism in general, that the aristocracy, not only of England, but of all Europe, have seized with so much avidity upon _Uncle Tom_, and have been at so much pains to procure a triumphal march for its author through all the regions she may choose to visit.
They are delighted to see a native of the United States--of that republic which has taught that a people can flourish without an aristocracy or a monarch--of that republic, the example of whose prosperity was gradually undermining thrones and digging a pit for privileged classes--describing her country as the worst, the most abandoned, the most detestable that ever existed.

Royalty draws a long breath, and privilege recovers from its fears.

Among the people of the continent, especially among the Germans, Italians, and Russians, there are thousands who believe that murder is but a pastime here--that the bowie-knife and pistol are used upon any provocation--that, in fact, we are a nation of assassins, without law, without morality, and without religion.


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