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Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 21: closing scenes, 1870-1889. (search)
war. The industry of the man in writing is wonderful. Every day's doings in the house are faithfully daguerreotyped,--all the mean tricks, contrivances of the slave-power, and the pusillanimity of the Northern members from day to day recorded. Calhoun was then secretary of state. Under his connivance even the United States census was falsified, to prove that freedom was bad for negroes. Records of deaf, dumb, and blind, and insane colored people were distributed in Northern States, and in places where John Q. Adams had means of proving there were no negroes. When he found that these falsified figures had been used with the English embassador as reasons for admitting Texas as a slave State, the old man called on Calhoun, and showed him the industriously collected proofs of the falsity of this census. He says: He writhed like a trodden rattlesnake, but said the census was full of mistakes; but one part balanced another,--it was not worth while to correct them. His whole life wa
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Index. (search)
., 453; letters to H. B. S. from, 274, 282; on The minister's Wooing, 343; farewell to, 313, 339; her confidences, 440; Mrs. Stowe's counsels to, 451. Byron, Lord, Mrs. Stowe on, 339; she suspects his insanity, 450; cheap edition of his works proposed, 453; Recollections of, by Countess Guiccioli, 446; his position as viewed by Dr. Holmes, 457; evidence of his poems for and against him, 457. C. Cabin, the, literary centre, 185. Cairnes, Prof., on the Fugitive slave Law, 146. Calhoun falsifies census, 509. Calvinism, J. R. Lowell's sympathy with, 335. Cambridgeport, H. B. S. reads in, 491. Carlisle, Lord, praises Uncle Tom's Cabin, 164; Mrs. Stowe's reply, 164; writes introduction to Uncle Tom, 192; H. B. S. dines with, 228; farewell to, 248; letter from H. B. S. to on moral effect of slavery, 164; letter to H. B. S. from, 218. Cary, Alice and Phosbe, 157. Casaubon and Dorothea, criticism by H. B. S. on, 471. Catechisms, Church and Assembly, H. B. S.'s