Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-11-27
For the IntellIgeneer.
Uncle Tom md ihe Arsus. 81.
ale who the sword Of heaven would bear,
Should be as holy as severe,
Pattern In himself know, + Eszaa
Grace to stand, virtue 10 go /;
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fhaD by seif-olences weighing"

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Pattern in himself to know,
Grace to stand, virtue o %
ThaD by svlf-oaences weighing"
Ne are forcibly reminded of the lines above
quoted, by the uncallcd for structures of the
Wheeling Argus upon the drama of Uncle
Toms Cabin, now performing at the Atheneum
And moro forcibly. too, from the fact that this
would-bc expounder of our public sentiment
was fully represented at the play, two of its cd
itors aiding and abctting in that, which in their
Inost sapient discrimination. and with ali utter
disregard of truth and fairness, they have pro-
nounced unit for presentation, "a libel upon
Southern institutions, and StdtsdcI upon our
citiseas
That the character of Iegree is revolving and
greatly exaggerated, no candid mind can deny
butwc are not to forget that, which the Argus,
with its whole hundred eyes, failed to discover,
or had not the candor to admit viz that the
authoress found it necessary to go to New Eng
land for his birth place,-tllat it was necessary
TO surround his youth with all the vices, crimes
necessary to locate him in region almost be-
You'd the pale orciyiization and the reach oflaw,
ccould be fitted to fill the station he is made
TO occupy both in the drama and the book. And
yet this is what the Argus styles libel upon
Southern planters and on Southern institutions.
Had the editor applied his remarks to the peo-
pie of Boston. they might have been disposed to
thank him for his effort, for, in our poor judg.
,nent, they arc the party who have most cause
TO complain. 1t is, however, not our intention
to write criticism on the work, but in sober
earnest to demand of the Argus why it has, in
this ungenerous, and uncalied-for manner.
endeavored to injurs the prospects of an es.
tablishment of which ii has had no cause to
complain. Had its structures been confined to
truth, and the whole truth, we would have been
the last to find ault however severe they might
have been. But when we have assertions with
out foundation in truth, -misrepr presentations
without a shadow of evidence, we belieys it to
be the part of justceto set the play forthin its
true light
The Argus says Iegree is represented as a
type of the southern planter. We think we
have sufficiently shown the talsity of the asSer-
ton The Argus says dc is suffered to per-
petrate his evil deeds with immunity; whilst,
on the contrary, dramatic justice oyertakes him,
and he meets his death in consequences of the
very deed cited by the Argus, as the one from
which heis allowed TO escape
OF the Lady, VIC can only say she is but n
type Of such isolated cases as are to be found in
all Chimes, either North or South, and we deny all
that the hundred eyed Argus may say to the
contrary Notwithstanding. Furthermore, she
Us made to occupy none other than a very sub
ordinate place in the drama, appearing in but
Pee sscass or At the most, two; and they but