Middletown transcript., 1895-04-13
UNCLE TOM,S CABIN.

A representative of the TRANSCRIPT
called upon Mr.. Griswold of the Uncle
Toms Cabin Company at his car at the de
pot this week where they have been de
tanned because of the complsint of the
railroad company that their car, which
has been all over the United States, is sc
wide as to be dangerous for transportation
They are expecting their summer canva:
outfit and are contentedly awaiting its
coming. They will render Joshua Whit
comb in the Opera House on Monday even.
ing, and those who saw Uncle Toms Ca.
bin know that the company will give an
entertainment worthy the largest patron.
age.
Mr.. Griswold, who is an Ohio man,
talks Interestingly ofhis recent trip through
the South. In many sections, notably in
Texas, an Uncle Toms company had never
been, and many of the people were ignor-
nant of the story and the part it has played
in the history of the country. He allowed
the TRANSCRIPTS representative to examine
his scrap book and it reveals the situation
in the South to-day as nothing short of q
visit to that section could do. In some
parts the New South" has prevailed, and
every man and enterprise and indica-
ton of progress and developement, is made
welcome. In others the war is not yet
over" and the Uncle Toms Cabin Combi.
nation lmet anything but a cordial well
come. In several places their bills were
torn down and. strange as it appears to the
people here, they were not permitted to
play. The following is from The Observer,
of Fayetville, N. c., of Jan. "a, 1895:
"a VILE CRUSADE.
"A theatrical company which has been
playing in some of our neighboring towns
adramitization of Mrs. Stoves vile book,
Uncle Toms Cabin, exhibited their play in
this city on Friday, and Saturday nights
last. 1t would be difficult properly to
characterize the impudence and criminal
folly of introducing such play in the
South. Ifanything, however. could attest
the peaceable and law-abiding character
of our people it is the fact that no interfer
ence, verbal or otherwise, was made with
the programme of these would-be-stirrers-
up ofstrife between the races-who in this
at least, dwell together on
terms of amity. 1t is not for man to ap-
portion the deserts of his fellow beings in
the Hereafter for deeds done in this life.
But, to our mortal vision, no act of man
since Adam fell has entailed greater conse-
quences of woe than the writing and pub
lication of Mrs. Stoves sensational book.
On the other side the Sumter Item, s. C.
says: "Uncle Toms Cabin is to appear on
The stage here tonight and there is a stir
in town in consequence. There ought to
be stir too, for it is seldom that our little
,ity has chance at play that has played
10 great part in the worlds history as
his. 1t has not only immortalized the
name of the author, Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth
Beecher Stowe but has been and is now
potent factor in the great work of extin-
gushing chattel slavery from the face of
he earth. As the South has had its day of
'rror on that subject and that day is dead
t supplies our people with vivid picture
If some historical facts of greatest interest
ind moment. At the time it was first pub
ished there were thousands of pro-slavery
,eople all over these United States. The
'eople of the north, whose minds it was
pecially designed to enlighten were so
'usy making money out of cotton produced
y the slaves at the South that they could
lot receive impressions of the essential
normities of such an institution, until
heir minds We're awakened and hearts
ouched by the picturings of Mrs. Stowe in
his marvelously correct and true account
# society. where slavery existed, presented
n this work Of fiction.
n
As to slavery no Yankee shall ever beat |
IS hating it, for no Yankee ever suffered
he hundredth part of the evils, of the horrid ]
hing that South Carolina has suffered and |
J now suffering and will suffer for genera
ions yet to come"