Announcing the publication of this book, there are quotes from the author’s preface, expressions of praise, and hope for its effect “to awaken the strongest compassion for the oppressed and the utmost abhorrence of the system which grinds them to the dust.” The article raises questions: “We are curious to know whether Mrs. Stowe is a believer in the duty of non-resistance for the white man, under all possible outrage and peril, as well as for the black man; whether she is for self-defence on her own part, or that of her husband or friends or country, in case of malignant assault, or whether she impartially disarms all mankind in the name of Christ, be the danger or suffering what it may.” … “The work, towards its conclusion, contains some objectionable sentiments respecting African colonization, which we regret to see.”

Under the Refuge of Oppression column, there is an account of the circulation of the book.  Abolitionists everywhere “are exulting in the sale of this pernicious work.”..  “It therefore behooves the friends of the Union, and we class among the friends of the Union all who love our country and its glorious institutions, and hate the despotism of the old world, to be up and doing in making every effort to counteract the evil, and one way to do this we will presently show. …..In order to meet the fallacies of this abolition tale, it would be well if the friends of the Union would array fiction against fiction.  Meet the disunionists with their own chosen weapon, and they are foiled….the people love light attractive reading, and it is in disseminating works of this kind  that the fancy is pleased and the mind influenced.”

From a correspondent of the Lincoln (Maine) Democrat, here are some of the words about the book:  “… It is a mischievous, dangerous work, got up on purpose for evil; that is the inevitable tendency of it.  It is really lamentable that where great evil is being concocted, you will always hear the rattle of petticoats. For her offence the Son of God died! Not content with the agony she created in Heaven, she now seeks to destroy the last hopes of humanity on earth, by this attack upon our glorious Union.”

A large meeting of the Glasgow Emancipation Society has given a testimony of “gratitude and approbation” to Mrs. Stowe.   Notable among the people on the platform was William Wells Brown.