s, gentleness
and patience, as Christian graces of the first importance; and
resignation to the will of God, and obedience and submission to civil
authorities, as the duty of all good citizens. And to the ladies I
would say, return home ladies, and love your husbands, nurse your
babies, attend to your household affairs; and recollect, that nothing
adorns your sex so much, as the ornament of a meek, a quiet spirit. I
would also advise you to read your Bibles and other good books, and
never again to read or write another novel. And, dear ladies, if you
have hitherto worn either bloomers or breeches, lay them aside. I must
return from this digression to the subject under discussion.

SECTION III.

It was said a few years ago, that one of the nobility of England
openly declared, that the sovereigns of Europe had determined upon the
destruction of the government of the United States; and that they
expected to accomplish their infamous designs by involving us in
"discord, disunion, anarchy and civil war." He is reported moreover to
have said, that they expected to accomplish this, by flooding our
country with their vicious refuse pauper population, and by agitating
the subject of slavery among us. Unfortunately for us, England in her
nefarious designs upon our country, has always found too many allies,
aiders and abettors, in our midst. I will not say, that Mrs. Stowe had
designs upon the liberties of her country, when she wrote Uncle Tom's
Cabin; but this I will say, that in writing that book, she performed
an acceptable service for the enemies of her country, for which it
seems, from recent demonstrations, they are profoundly thankful. Be it
as it may, she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin; the work was republished in
England, and we are credibly informed, that it has almost supplanted
the Bible in that country. Travelers tell us, that nothing else is
talked about throughout the British dominions. They received it, I
suppose, as a revelation from heaven--revelation of higher authority
than the Bible, for the reason, that it is of more recent origin.
Well, she is invited to England by the nation _en masse_; and if the
Saviour of the world should perchance make his advent into the British
Isles, on the day that she lands in that country, I think it highly
probable, that he would be forced a second time to _take lodgings in a
manger_. He might wander through the country unnoticed and unknown,
while the whole nation were draggling af