Growing Opposition to Emancipation
A few days ago a prominent writer denounced the book, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” as the most “vicious book that ever appeared,” “an appalling, an awful, and criminal mistake.” As that book was one of the mighty elements that worked to the abolition of slavery, it follows that the abolition of slavery was of the same sort as that book is thus said to be. Of course this man was apologizing for slavery. And that is just the point: as steadily as the days go by, there is growing in the United States a sentiment which can easily crystallize into a purpose, to undo all that was done in the emancipation of the slaves. It is announced from Washington that “Russia’s action in Manchuria will not be tolerated by the United States.”