The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-03

+, UNCLE ToMs CABIN AT THE NATIONAL THEA
TIRE Mrs. Harriet Beechsr Stoves novel Of sUncld
Toms CABIN has been drsmat,zed ut the Nation.
al Theatre, and being something of novelty,
it draws crowded houses nightly
| The Practice Of dramatizpg a popular novel. as
soon as it takes run, has become very com
mon. In many instances and particularly with
regard to the highly dramaic AID graphic novels Of
Dickens, these plays have been very successful
| giving pleasure and satisfaction to the public and
putting money into the pockets Of the ehucklinp
manager. But in the presentation Of Uncle Toms
Cabin upon the boards Of popular theatre, we ap-
| prehend the manager has COMMITTED q serious and
mschievous blunder. the tendencies Of which he did
| not compreh,nd, or did bot TO consider but in
relation to which we have word or two of friendly
coun 81 to submit.
| The novel of . Uncle Toms Cabin " is at present
our nine days literary wonder 1t has sold by thou
sands and tens and huudreGs OF thousands-not how.
ever on account ofany surpassrg wonderful ltera-
| ry merits which II may b. supposed TO possess, but
because Of the w0ely extended sympathy, in all tho
NORTH with the perDe'ous abolition sympattes and
higher law moral of this Ingenious and c1nning-
ly devised abolition oble The turore which it has
| thus created, has brought oas quite number of
catchpenny imitators pso AID can, DESTROYS of ILL
| ing their sails while yet the breeze is blowing,
though it does sppeac 10 TO be the meanest kind
of stealing Of lady's thonder. This is, indeed, o
| new epoch and a Geld of abolition authorship
a new field of fiction hnuoue aud deception, for u
more extended agitation Of the slavery question
than any that has heretofore imperilod the peace
and safety of the Union.
The success of "Uncle Toms Cabin as novel,
has naturally suggested It's soccess upon the sage;
but The fact las been over looked, that ANY such
| representation must be insult 30 the South--an
exaggerated morkery Of SoaFhro institu5ons-and
calculated, THAI any other expedient of sgita-
ton, to poison the minds of youth With the pes
tilent principles OF aooltiouisn The pay: AZ per-
formed at the National is a crude ard aggravated
affair." following the general plot Of the story, except
in the closing scene, where, instead of allowing Tom
TO die under The cruel treatment of his new master
il Louisiana he is brought back to reunion with
Wilmot and his wife turned runaways-all OF
whom, with Uncle Tom and Aunt Chloe, set free,
with the privilege OF remaiuiug upon the oil plaza
tation The incidents Of the piece thus set forth
in he "snall biil'' =
PROGRAMME
kcl 1-Exteiior ~ Jucl- Tom Cabin Shelby
Plantations; gro Celebrations Chorus, Nigga in Is
CcrpGeldn KENTUCKY 9roabdrvu Dance; Innocence Pro-
tcteo: Slave prplers "a hann Cbora, Come then 10
the FEAST the Aottc'e Appeal capture Of Mona In
| terror 81 Uncle lCn Datum: Midnight Escape; Tom
driven from his Cahr s'sfeo = lie tradrrs; Miracu
Hcape of Murna AND her Child, Offering Prayer the
| Neglo's HOPE; huectirg rahleau
AcT = Fauily Lxci .cmeyl; hak threatenings: Ohio
River Frozen snow storUi; iiieht of Norma and
her Child Punut OF H. fls1er'' De perate Resolve
and Escape d Norma On Eorirg tee Mountain Torrent
and RaNine; Cayeof Crazy f'A-; chase OF Edward Ma
MACS Protection; ne.w1ate Fnconn'er Of Edward and
Traders on the Bridge ia ~ springer down the Roar
ing ToIreDt Negro Chores - uarkies Hoe the Corn;'
Meeting Of 70 and Mona. Escape over Mountain
| Rocks.
Acr s--Roadsde IN; Advertisement Extraordinary;
the Slave Aucioneer, drncanuo between Edward aut
Slave Dealers lntfrpoSian Crazy Mag; Arrival from
the West Indies. Singular Discovry. Mountain Deli;
Recognition q HE Lo. eother Repentance and Re-
morse; Return II Tom, he Log Cabin ia it's Prde; Free
dom Ct Edward and Morra So.
10 the progress Of thee varied scenes we have tn,
most extravaeant exhibitions Of the imaginary
horrors of Southern slavery The negro traders,
with their long whips cut aud slash their poor
slaves about the stagefor mere pastime and gang
ofpoor wretches, handcuiled a chain which holds
them all in marching order, two bywo, thrashei
like cattle to quicken their pace Uncle Tom is
scourged by the trader, v 40 has bought him, for
s'whining" at his bad lack. reward is posted up,
offering four hundred dollars for the runaway, Ed
ward Wilmot, (who az well as his wife, is neatly
white,) the reward to be paid upon Ibis recovery,
upon proof that he has been allied " But Wilmot
shoots down his puisuers in real Christina style,
as fast as they come and after many marvellous es-
capes, ard mary fine rantipg abolition speeches,
Generally preceding bis det shots he is liberated
as we have described
This play, and these scenes, are nightly received
at one OF our most popular theatres with repeated
rounds of applause. True, the audience appears to
be pleased with the novelty, without being troubled
about the moral of the story, which is mische YOU
in the extreme.
The institution Of Southern slavery is recognized
and protected by the federal constitutions upon
which this Union was established, and viii ,h
holds 1t together. But Tor the compromises on tho
slavery question, We should have constitution aud
no union-and would, perhaps, have been at THE
day, In the condition OF the South American repub-
lies, divided into several military despotisms con-
stan'ly warning with each other. and each within
itself. The Fugitive Slave law only carries out ono
OF the plain provisions of the constitution When
southern slave escapes 10 us in honor bound
10 return him to his master Aud yet, here in this
city-Which owes Its wealth, population power, and
prosperity, to the Union ard the constitution. and
TINS same institution OF slavery, TO greater degree
than any other city III the Unon here We have night
~ represented, at a popular theatre the most exag-
gerated enormities Of Southern slavery, playing
directly into the hands of tue abotionists and
abolition kidnappers Of slaves, and doing their
work for them. What will our Southern friends
thihk OF all our professions of respect for taer
delicate social institution Of slavery, when thew
ind that even our anus ments are oyerJrawp
caricatures exhibiting our hatred against it ant,
against them Is this consistent with good faith.
or honor, or the every day obligations of bospi-
tally NO. IL is not. IT, is sad blundsr far
when our stage shall become the deliberate agent in
the cause OF abotioDism, with the sanction of tho
luolic, ana Their appreciation, the peace and bar
| mony OF this Union viii soon be ended
We MOuld. FINN 81 hoe u