Key to Uncle Tom

Key to Uncle Tom   

  We have received this long-looked for implement, which Mrs. Stowe has at length furnished to unlock the mysteries of slaveholding iniquity and to shut the door against the caviling and carping.  As far as we have been able to examine the book, it seems to be done in a candid and truthful spirit, not withholding or modifying testimonies which it is evident were painful for the author to bear.  It is the essence of slavery, presented in a concentrated form, and, as such, we commend it to all who have blamed the Abolitionists for undue severity in their handling of slavery itself, or of its defenders or abettors in Church and State, at the North.  — Q