Note 6 — UNCLE TOM’S CABIN.
Reading edition
“I mean to ask him to.” This is a form of expression continually occurring in this work. It is also one used by the vulgar in this country; but Mrs Stowe puts it into the mouths alike of educated and uneducated—black and white. We might notice many analogous vulgarisms in at least English eyes, but the critic is disposed heartily to act on the principle—
“Verum ubi plura nitent ... non ego paucis Offendar maculis.”