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THE
CABIN AND PARLOR.
Price, Fifty Cents in paper; or One Dollar in Cloth Gilt.
From the Norfolk (Va.) Daily News, of Oct. 15th, 1852.
The Cabin and Parlor.—“This is the title of a work lately issued by
T. B. Peterson of Philadelphia, and is designed as a corrective of the mischievous
errors and misrepresentations circulated by Harriet Beecher Stowe
in her late libel on the South. After a careful perusal, undertaken from a
sense of duty and continued with delight, we do not hesitate to pronounce
The Cabin and Parlor to be eminently deserving of an extensive circulation.
It is decidedly superior to the late publications on the subject of which
it treats, and apart from the correctness of its views and just delineation of
slavery, it is one of the most readable books, both as regards the interest of
the narrative and beauty of style, that has ever fallen under our notice.
No one possessing a mind sensitive to tender impressions and simplicity of
description can read such passages as the death of Horace and the trials of
Isabel without emotion.
“As the false views and evil tendencies of `Uncle Tom's Cabin' can only
be counteracted by works, which from their popular style and pleasing narrative
will be read, we think that the author and publisher of the book before
us deserve the gratitude and support of every true lover of his country. This
can be best evinced by purchase and recommendation of the work. Fifty
cents, or One Dollar, according to choice of binding, remitted to the publisher,
will insure a copy by return of mail, free of postage.”
From the Baltimore Daily Argus, of Oct. 16th, 1852.
Just from the Press.—The Cabin and Parlor; or, Slaves and Masters.
—“We announced some time since, that this volume was in the press, and
would soon be before the public. We are glad to find it so soon ready for
circulation. The false views so widely propagated by the circulation of
`Uncle Tom's Cabin,' can only be met fairly by a work in equally popular
style, which shall follow it to the fireside of our countrymen, and expel the
errors which have been lodged in the mind by Mrs. Stowe's fiction.
“We earnestly recommend the Cabin and Parlor to the perusal of our
countrymen, believing that it is well calculated to dissipate the prejudices
and animosities which have unfortunately existed in some sections of our
country, and to beget in all minds a deeper feeling of respect for the wisdom
which framed our admirable institutions, and a fuller determination to respect
the rights and privileges of all, and thus perpetuate the blessings of our
glorious Union undimmed to coming ages.”
From the Baltimore Daily Sun, of October 14th, 1852.
“We have received a copy of The Cabin and Parlor; or, Slaves and
Masters, by J. Thornton Randolph. The work is published by T. B. Peterson.
Philadelphia, and is freely embellished. It is a transcript of real life in
the free and in the slave States, with a view to the illustration of the social
condition of the colored race, slave and free. The story is well written, the
plot elaborated with much ingenuity, and the characteristics of the colored
race sustained by a skilful hand. It seems to have been the object of the
writer to avoid extremes, and to convey to the unprejudiced mind a just and
adequate realization of slavery, as it exists in its general and ordinary phases
throughout the South. In this it will no doubt be conceded, by all whose experience
enables them to judge of the fact, that he has been quite successful.”
Published and for Sale by T. B. PETERSON,
No. 102 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
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