"STRIKE THE IRON WHILE IT IS HOT"

  AMONGST the means recently adapted to expose the dreadful iniquities of Slavery, none has been more efficacious than the well-known publication, Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Negro Life in the Slave States of America.—The gratitude of the Christian public is especially due to the gifted authoress for that production of her graphic pen. Her name will be chronicled amongst the most [. . .] benefactors of the human race, and recurred to with feelings of the highest imitation and esteem, when the memory of those who have soaked the earth with human gore will be remembered with abhorrence, or consigned to oblivion.

  Mrs. Stowe's Work has come down upon the dark abodes of human bondage like the morning sunlight, unfolding to view the enormities of slavery in a manner which has fastened all over upon them, and awakened sympathy in hearts unused to feel. Day by day, and hour by hour throughout the civilized world, sympathy is diminishing for the oppressor, and increasing for its victims.—Never since the abolition of Colonial Slavery has there existed so deep and powerful an anti-slavery feeling as at the present moment.

  The touching, but too truthful tale of Uncle Tom's Cabin, has rekindled the slumbering embers of anti-slavery zeal into active flame. Its recitals have baptized with holy fire myriads who before cared nothing for the bleeding slave. Where is the heart it has not roused into indignation or melted into tears? It is extremely desirable that this feeling should not be allowed to pass hastily away, without its leading to practical results. The old adage, "Strike the iron while it is hot," seems especially applicable to the present moment. Some immediate means must be adopted to strengthen the impression, and fix it indelibly on the public mind, till slavery be eradicated. Now, it is the press we have to thank as the medium for calling forth much of this feeling, and as the press ever remains to be one of the mightiest instrumentalities that can be employed in the annihilation of systems of cruelty, despotism, it has been resolved to embrace the present favorable opportunity for a general distribution of Anti-Slavery Tracts, and to issue not less 500,000, as it is only by printing largely that they can be done very cheap. Printed in this ratio they can be supplied to the public at a very low cost.