We are trying to secure a
universal arousing of the pulpit.
Dr. Bacon's letter is noble. You must think so. It has been sent to
every member of Congress. Dr. Kirk's sermon is an advance, and his
congregation warmly seconded it. Now, my good friend, be willing to
see that the church is better than you have thought it. Be not
unwilling to see some good symptoms, and hope that even those who see
not at all at first will gain as they go on. I am acting on the
conviction that you love the cause better than self. If anything can
be done now advantageously by the aid of money, let me know. God has
given me some power in this way, though I am too feeble to do much
otherwise.
Yours for the cause,
H. B. STOWE.
Although the demand was very great upon Mrs. Stowe for magazine and
newspaper articles, many of which she managed to write in 1854-55, she
had in her mind at this time a new book which should be in many
respects the complement of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." In preparing her Key
to the latter work, she had collected much new material. In 1855,
therefore, and during the spring of 1856, she found time to weave
these hitherto unused facts into the story of "Dred." In her preface
to the English edition of this book she writes:--
"The author's object in this book is to show the general effect of
slavery on society; the various social disadvantages which it brings,
even to its most favored advocates; the shiftlessness and misery and
backward tendency of all the economical arrangements of slave States;
the retrograding of good families into poverty; the deterioration of
land; the worse demoralization of all classes, from the aristocratic,
tyrannical planter to the oppressed and poor white, which is the
result of the introduction of slave labor.
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