TOPICS OF THE TIME.
The death of Mrs Harriet Beeeher Stowe, announced in to-day's cable messages, should serve to remind us all of the power that may be wielded by one individual having a great cause from which to derive inspiration. It is in " Uncle Tom's' Cabin " where get not only all the genius of her whose victories were greater than any general, or king, or leader of men, but where we get the mainspring, as it were, of her resolution. She had there put into the mouth of George Shelby the vow she herself so well kept. "From this time forth I will do all that one man can to sweep away the curse of slavery." Those words—we quote from memory—were supposed to have been spoken over the dead body of "Uncle Tom," and they embody all Harriet Beeeher Stowe's resolve to remove the blot from her country, aye from the world, of the cursed traffic in human flesh and blood. Harriet Beeeher Stowe, that is, her body, is dead ; but she herself, her spirit, her work, will live for ever; and while the language is spoken, the book which immortalised her and blessed an enslaved race will be a book of books to the old and the young, to all who love sweet liberty for its own precious sake.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 58, 3 July 1896, Page 2
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