Letters of Lydia Maria Child, with a biographical introduction by John G. Whittier and an appendix by Wendell Phillips.

LETTERS. 69
chip off large bits of marble; but she did not venture
to have him go within several inches of the surface
she intended to work. Miss Hosmer is going to
Rome in October, accompanied by her father, a plain,
sensible man, of competent property. She expects
to remain in Italy three years, with the view of becoming a sculptor by profession.
Mrs. Stowe's truly great work, "Uncle Tom's
Cabin," has also done much to command respect for
the faculties of woman. Whittier has poured forth
verses upon it; Horace Mann has eulogized it in
Congress; Lord Morpeth is carried away with it; the
music stores are full of pieces of music suggested by
its different scenes; somebody is going to dramatize
it; and 100,000 copies sold in little more than six
months! Never did any American work have such
success! The passage of the Fugitive Slave Law
roused her up to write it. Behold how'" God makes
the wrath of man to praise Him! " Charles Sumner
has made a magnificent speech in Congress against
the Fugitive Slave Law. How thankful I was for it!
God bless him! The Republican party don't know
how to appreciate his honesty and moral courage.
They think he makes a mistake in speaking the
truth, and does it because he don't know any better.
They do not perceive how immeasurably superior his
straightforwardness is to their crookedness. History
will do him justice.
It is really droll to see in what different states of
mind people read " Uncle Tom." Mr. Pierce, Senator
from Maryland, read it lately, and when he came to
the sale of "Uncle Tom," he exclaimed with great
emotion, " Here's a writer that knows how to sympathize with the South! I could fall down at the feet