The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1852-10-06
A New Thing.

"Unele TENS CABIN has been dramatized |
and draws nightly, large houses at the National of
New York. @
The representation is gotten up ''well'' and The
New York Herald declares that it is received
with rounds of applause. NEGRO traders I" it
says "with their long whips, cut and slash their
poor slaves abou: the stage f,r mere pastime, and
gang of poor wretches, handcuffed to a chain
which holds them all in marching order, two by
two, thrashed Ike cattle TO quicken their pace.
Uncle Tom is scourged by the trader, who has
bought him, for whining at his bad luck. A re-
ward is posted up, offering four hundred liars for
the runaway, Edward Wlmot, (who, as we'll as
his wife, is nearly Whitley the reward to be paid
upon his recovery or upon proof that he has been
killed. But Wilmot shoots down his pursuers in
real Christana style, as fast they come, and
after many marvellous escapes, and many fine rant
irg abolition speeches., (generally preceding his
dead shots,) he is liberated as we have described"
And this is received with rounds of applause in
New York nightly. How the play is written we
cannot say; what its mode of action unable
TO determine; but the plot Stowe is follow
ed, EXCEPT that Uncle Tom and Aunt Chole are
set free. The small bills set forth the incde ents
of the play thus:
Shelby's Plantation Negro Celebration Chorus;
" Nigga in de Conield;" Kentucky Breakdowr.
Dance; Innocence Protected; Slave Dealers on
hand; s.Come then to the Feast;' the Mothers
Appeals; Capture of Norma; Interior of Uncle
Toms Cabin Midnight Escape; Tom driven from
his Cabin; Search of the Traders; Miraculous
Escape of Norma and her Child; Offering Prayer
the Negro's Hope; Affecting Tableau.
Act 2-Family Excitement; Dark Threaten
ings: Ohio River Frozen over; Snow Storm:
Flight of Norma and her Child Pursuit of the
Traders; Desperate Resolve and Escape of Norma
on Floating ice; Mountain Torrent and Ravine; :;
Cave of crazy Mag; Chase of Edward; Maniac's
Protection; Desperate Encounter of Edward and
Traders on the Bridge; Fall of Springer down the
Roaring Torrent; Negro Chorus, g We Darkies
Hoe the Corn;" Meeting of Edward and Norma:
Escape over Mountain Rocks.
ACT 3-Roadside Inn; Advertisement Extra
ordinary; the Slave Auctioneer; Recoutre be-
tween Edward and Slave Dealers Interpositon
of Crazy Mag; Arrival frt m the West Indies
Singular Discovery; Mountain Dell; Recognition
of the the Lost Mother; Repentance and Re-
morse; Return OF Tom; The Log Cabin in its
Pride; Freedom of Edward and Norma, &c.
Strange, is it not A few years since and the
crowd at the National would have mobbed an
anti slavery speaker. Now it cheers rounds
of applause we told follow the representation
of the play nightly, and at the most popular thea
tire in New York, play has had such run as
Uncle Tom.
The New York Herald says -
"We would advise all concerned, to drop the
play of Uncle Toms Cabin at once and forever
The thing is in bad taste-s not according to good
faith TO the constitution, consistent with either
of the two Baltimore platforms; and is calculated
) if persisted in, to become frebrand of the mos
dangerous character TO the peace of the whole
country