If only he could engage Mrs.Stowe.

I had not heard of her, and he explained that she was a daughter of Lyman Beecher.

I was surprised and exclaimed: "A daughter of Lyman Beecher write abolition stories! Saul among the prophets!" I reminded the Doctor that President Beecher and Prof.Stowe had broken up the theological department of Lane Seminary by suppressing the anti-slavery agitation raised by Theodore Weld, a Kentucky student, and threw their influence against disturbing the Congregational churches with the new fanaticism; that Edward Beecher invented the "organic sin," devil, behind which churches and individuals took refuge when called upon to "come up to the help of the Lord against the mighty." But Dr.
Bailey said he knew them personally, and that despite their public record, they were at heart anti-slavery, and that prudence alone dictated their course.

Mrs.Stowe was a graphic story-teller, had been in Kentucky, taken in the situation and could describe the peculiar institution as no one else could.

If he could only enlist her, the whole family would most likely follow into the abolition ranks; but the bounty money, alas, where could he raise it?
Where there is the will there is a way, and it was but a few months after that conversation when Dr.Bailey forwarded one hundred dollars to Mrs.Stowe as a retaining fee for her services in the cause of the slave, and lo! the result, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." As it progressed he sent her another, and then another hundred dollars.