Show Editor Trlbunft Will you pleaso an swer in Sundays juo the following A holds the opinion thut the violent anti slavery sentiment oC the New Kngland btatcs had its birth partially In Jealousy because tho superior climatic conditions or tho South cnVSO1 1L to flourish there long after It had ceased to bo a paying Institution so far north and second Urn tho book Uncle Toms Cabin vhl0 truo In Individual cases was not a true representative picture of conditions as existIng under tho slavery system Both 15 these propositions are denied by 13 Who COrTtq Vl February 21 I 1SOO There was no Jealousy There was already much opposition to slavery when the Constitution was adopted one of tile last appeals of Benjamin Frank lin was that the work of emancipation should be begun All over the South were slaveholders who gave liberty to their slaves the Christian world was Btlrrlng to do away with the day when men should reckon among theIr ussetg the value oil their slaves The same work Was going on across the sea Eng land In 13I abolished ulavery in her colonies and kept her ships busy In suppressing tile slave trade The fool l ing against slavery Increased every year until a mighty antagonism grew up between tho South and the North and at last the dlvlnH divinity or slavery > was preached in Southern pulpits and proclaimed pro-claimed from Southern rostrums Then the fugitive slave law was passed by Congress and its validity declared by the Supreme court then the Republican Republi-can party sprung JIP with the declaration declara-tion that all new territory until admitted ad-mitted Into the Union must bo free so the passions of both sections were inflamed In-flamed until the war became inevitable As for Uncle Toms Cabin It was not intended to be a true statement of any particular case but was meant to show what might be possible under the laws in the slavery system |