The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-01-20
UNCLE TOMS CABIN.

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| virtues exceed even the licensed painting
If fiction. When divinity, with the fora
Of man assumed all his capacity for sui
fering. he scarcely transcribed in beants
Of character, blamelessness of life aDo
self-devotion the product of Harrie
| Beecher Stoves imagination. Such 3
character is almost beyond conception
aud is filter subject for apoiheosis thai
| for the drama. He carries goodness
| slear down to the bed rock OF absurdity
He has none OF the frailties of the fees
and is so far beyond mankind in attrl-
butes that he is placed outside the pal
f human sympathy. Uncle Tom is 81
elevated character that the tears o.
white robed angels are the only fttinl
expression of sorrow for his suffering.
None but race of demi-gods coulo
bring forward such representative a
Uncle Tom His Standardization on tn
same stage with ''Topsy" seems almos!
as irreverent as the presentation of The
Passion Play. He is SO good, so piou>
that in the language of a high schooi
girl he Is perfectly lovely" He ha~
none of the brutal coarseness, none OF
the lechery, nor the petty, vices of his
fellows. He is not, as is clfaracteristlc
Of his race, pious through limitation.
He never stole chicken; never did any
thing that vas not "truly good" Gooo
people conld
Lay down their life for the swain
That would sing but song i'll his praise
His memory has been embalmed in the
tears of sickly sentiment. The evils OF
slavery, magnified aud imaginative, are
depicted in his life aud the virtues of the
highest type of mankind are incarnated
IN his person. How sad the reflection,
that his virtues died with him, aud thai
no modern niger has taken him as +
model. Poor Uncle Tom! The only
perfect man to be found even in novel
aud to die aud "make no sign" that he
left his secret of being good to some mig
ger to whom we could make pilgrim
age. He is in heaven teaching the an
gels how to be better and his black breth-
rem are still in this vale of tears kicking
up devil of rumpus and beating the
democratic party.
AS there was never anything like Uncle
Tom SO there never was anything like
the crowd that went to see him Tuesday
night at Turner Hall. 1t WAS almost as
bad as the Chicago convention. There
was such rush for the door when open
ed that only those Subject to the draft"
could get in. To borrow another high
school girl expression sit was perfectly
awful" and so was portion of the play.
All the reserved seats were taken. Then
the benches were impressed into the re
serve service; then the standing room
became reserved seats ard the general
admission fellows stood on the street and
craned their necks to get a view of
George Harris running away from the
bloodhounds. The latter tackled a man
in the audience and freed him, leaving
George to skedaddle to that portion of
the United States which is the "only
original" land of the free and the home
OF the brave, which feat he accomplish,
ed as trained elocutiJnists read, "with
force, propriety and ease" Eva was
well represented by q little child OF about
five years of age, acting sin the play
time of the others and doing it but
too well. Uncle Tom appeared in all
the solernnity OF superior sanctity and
produced that acerbity of countenance
which is an outward sign of inward piety.
Gumption Cute is good in light comedy
and serves as a counter-irritant to the ex-
treme goodness Of Tom which Unduly
excites the lachfymal glands of those
whose emotions are near the surface, ana
who believe that Mrs. Stowe did not ex-
coed the probabilities when she invested
her hero with the attributes of saint
The troupe has struck a bonanza and
has turned into q mine of money one
who was mine of piety and transcend
ent goodness, Dissertation almost equal
to the lordly Caesar stopping buug
nole.
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