“PROF.  ALLEN IS MARRIED”

“MARRIED.—­In New York city, March 30th, by Rev. Thomas Henson, Professor WILLIAM G. ALLEN, of Mc.  Grawville, N. Y., and Miss MARY E. KING, of Fulton, N. Y., daughter of Rev. Lyndon King, of Fulton.

“We expected as much.  We were liberally abused for our discountenance of this marriage, and charged with wilfully falsifying facts, because we insisted that this affair was in contemplation, and would yet go off. Prof. Allen denied it, and others thought that they had the most positive assurance from his statements that the amalgamation wedding was a fiction.  But now, after he and his white brethren have liberally impugned our motives, charged falsehood upon us, and made solemn asseverations designed to make the public believe that no such thing was in contemplation, in two brief months, the thing is consummated, with all the formality of a religious observance, and this unholy amalgamation is perpetrated before high Heaven and asserted among men.

“Prof. ALLEN and his fair bride are now in Europe.  It is well they should emigrate, to show admiring foreigners the beauties of American abolitionism.  Let them attend the receptions of the Duchess of Sutherland, the soirees of English agitators, and the orgies of Exeter Hall.  Let GEO. THOMPSON introduce them as the first fruits of his philanthropic labors in America.  Let them travel among the starveling English operatives, who would gladly accept slavery if assured of a peck of corn each week; let them wander among European serfs, whose life, labor, and virtue are the sport of despots, compared to whom the crudest slave driver is an angel—­and there proclaim their ‘holy alliance.’  If the victims of English and Continental tyranny do not turn their backs, disgusted with the foul connection, their degradation must be infinitely greater than we had supposed.”

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But to return to the story:  Soon after the “interview” between Miss King and myself, I received the following note from Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe—­the renowned Authoress of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”  A “divine-hearted woman,” this, as Horace Mann hath rightly called her, and more precious than rubies to me is her kind and Christian epistle:—­

Andover, Massachusetts, February 21st, 1853.

  “Professor Allen,—­
     “Dear Sir:—­

“I have just read with indignation and sorrow your letter in the Liberator (copied from the Syracuse Standard).  I had hoped that the day for such outrages had gone by.  I trust that you will be enabled to preserve a patient and forgiving spirit under this exhibition of vulgar and unchristian prejudice. Its day is short.

“Please accept the accompanying volume as a mark of friendly remembrance from,—­

“H.  B. STOWE.”

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Just before Miss K. left Fulton for Pennsylvania, she received the following letter from the Rev. Timothy Stowe—­the gentleman to whom reference has already been made.  He is not related to Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, but is nevertheless of royal race:—­