Some of our contemporaries have been much exercised in mind, and greatly troubled in spirit, lest in accepting the money of the British people, Mrs. Stowe should compromise her dignity as an American authoress. The following, from the pen of Rev. H. WARD BEECHER, who may be supposed to be fully informed on the subject, will, we think, greatly relieve our delicately sensitive neighbors on this point. What is here stated by Mr. Beecher, we know to be true long before Mrs. Stowe left the United States for England.

  "A word upon the pecuniary offerings to Mrs. Stowe, in England. It is well known by many that Mrs. Stowe has from the first desired to turn whatever influence this work might give her, to the elevation of the African race. The plan which has been most in her thoughts has been a seminary in which persons of African descent may be thoroughly educated, not merely in literary and scientific courses, but in practical arts, by which they might secure and maintain a proper place in society. To the founding of such an institution she had determined to contribute much of her income; and the hope of securing greater interest for it, was one among the chief reasons for her tour. The generous contributions in money, made to her in Great Britain, are not understood by either party, but certainly not by Mrs. Stowe, to be for her own private and personal use, but to be employed for the education and elevation of the free colored people of the North.

  "The difficulties in the way of such an enterprise are exceedingly great. A public sentiment among many Christians—whose only conception of duty is to vomit the colored man out of America as an indigestible mass—will not afford much of that sympathetic aid without which our own academies and colleges find it almost impossible to live.—Education for the free colored man is the thing most needed. He can do nothing without it. Nothing can prevent his rising, in due time, with it.

  "We speak of northern prejudice against the blacks. It is not mere prejudice. Neither in the north nor in the south is there any prejudice against the blacks as menials. We love to be served by them. Neither odor nor color repel them from our toilet. Dr. Pennington is not allowed, in his pastoral visits among the poor and sick of his flock, scattered all over New York, to ride in an omnibus by the side of white folks; but if Dr. Pennington was a servant and a coachman, he might sit on the same seat with ladies and gentlemen, and ride unrebuked thro' Broadway."