Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-02-07

ne was In No Sense herO-Only "Worth.
less No Count Niger" Kennedy
Was Not the Prosecutor Of the Black Man.
and Little Eva Did Not Die and Go to Hea.
ven. but is Still Living and Grandmother.
Anent the attempt to prohibit the
production of "Uncle Toms Cabin"
in kentucky,a Louisville correspond.
ent strips the romance from the lead
ing character in Mrs. Stoves great
novel by asserting that the prototype
from which she evolved the faithful
but much abused "Uncle Tom" was a
worthless, no count nigger," dis
liked even by his own race.
Now the" nti-Cabinists"-as they
have been termed-number thous-
ands, almost every chapter of the
Daughters in the State has formally
protested against the play, and bill
is about to be introduced in the gene.
raj assembly for the purpose of sup
pressing the drama. In any other
State the coincidence would be called
singular-the coincidence of a State
that furnished the characters and in
cidents for great novel being the
first to take steps toward suppressing
its dramatizatiOn. In Kentucky, how
evor, it is but natural sequence
this attempt to bar by legislative en-
actment the appearance in theaters of
companies that play "Unclc Toms
Cabin" Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves
great slave epic, founded on the fact
and fiction of Kentucky life.
From every section where wives.
daughters and granddaughters of vet.
Grams OF the lost cause have formed
organizations there comes a voice
against the further production OF the
play in Kentucky, and, if any one
doubts that measure to prohibit will
be introduced in the Legislature, let
him watch the dispatches from Frank.
fort after bill days.
1t will be remembered by the mil.
lions who have read "Uncle Toms
Cabin" that Mrs. Stowe opens it with
the expression, In the quiet little
town Of p" This means Paint Lick
a village on the Louisville & Nashville
railroad, in Gsrrard county. Mrs.
Stowe many times confessed that the
groundwork of the plot was laid there,
on the farm and among the negroes
owned by General Thomas Kennedy,
who was Garrard county's first repre-.
sentative in the general assembly of
Kentucky. And this last fact may
play its part in the prospective action
OF the present session of that body.
Many friends Of the Kentucky genera.
tions that have come into prominence
since that Legislature At the close of
the Eighteenth Century feel that Mrs.
Stowe did General Kennedy an injus.
tice in the way she mixed fiction with
fact, coupling his name to each. Gar
rard county's wealthiest citizen and
largest dealer in race horses and
slaves, General Kennedy, was not the
prosecutor of the black man that Mrs.
Stowe has led Thousands to believe.
This is not heresay evidence, az
there still lives at Paint Lick the link
between the fading past and the feet.
ing present. diminutive negro, who
was one of General Kennedy's slaves,
and who remembers him as kind.
hearted man. When the traveller
reaches Paint Lick the FIRST person he
meets 10 this same little creature,
black as the proverbial ace of spades,
3 feet OF stature, and GO pounds of
weight. He always meets all trains at
the village station.
The story Of the trip across the ice,
as told in the novel, is exploded by
this negro. Norman Kennedy Argo,
who says Margie remained in Louis
vile until her husband returned for
her from Ohio, and the two went to
Cincinnati on steamboat. Eliza was
an octoroon. Clark met Mrs. Stowe
in the north and gave her the plot and
characters for her great work.
Uncle Tom Of the story, old Nor
man says, was not a sensitive, perse-
cuted darky, as pictured, but worth
less, lazy, No count Niger" disliked
even by his own race. The Little Eva
Of the story did not die and 60 to
heaven, as indicated, but is still alive