Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-20
KENTUcKY's CRUSADE AGAINST
The ISLANDER ON The SOUTH

EditoY Atlanta Journal:
I noticed in your excellent journal few
evenings ago a press dispatch from Lex
ingtons KY, announcing the action OF the
Daughters Of the Confederacy in that
city, namely, their petition to the man
ayers OF the opera house at Lexington,
asking that the play Uncle Toms Cab
in never be presented again at the
opera house there. Later a. press dis
patch states that the manager refused
to grant the request.
The fact that this movement on part OF
the ladies of Lexington created, as the
telegram states, "a sensation" and the
Press association gave out the informa-
ton. is sufficient evidence Of the gravity
of the incident.
Perhaps no one person did more to dis
rupt the Union than Mrs. Stowe, the au-
thor of Uncle Toms Cabin" It was
the fuel that politicians and would-be
usurpers had ignited, and so ingenious
and devilish was this travesty upon every
semblance of truth, that its very gro
.tesqueness caught the eager and willing
Pharisee and Publicans of that day.
1t would be difficult to imagine more
truthless, factless, faithless fraud The
very genius of the book is fraught with
madness that seems impossible to ration
al beings. The scenes are cruelty false
the characters preposterously unnatural
and 1nnunlan. NOluluS IOuAu AAAOAC DdcCA9
rnisrepresent, traduce and false-swear the
south and the southern people.
1t was thorn poisoned and tipped with
venom.
So much for the book; and yet, thous-
and denunciatory words could not APP
proach the preface of contempt all fair
minded men and women would write
against so foul plot-"Uncle Toms
Cabin"
In the wild. ignoble and bloodshot on
slought waged against the south in those
days, the dramatization of Uncle Toms
Cabin" was in keeping with the hideous
tenper then rampant But after the des-
perate purposes Of the wretched book"
had been accomplished, and hundreds OF
thousands of Americans had been slain
in battle. or persisted from disease, i'm
prisonment and other ills Of war; a fair
land devastated and laid waste, and
thousands upon thousands Of broken
hearted mothers, wives. sisters and sweet
hearts had added their wall to the horri-
ble wreck this wicked volume, Uncle
Toms Cabin" aided in effecting, it would
seem that the limit Of even barbaric
hatred had been reached, and this gigan-
tic falsehood should be permitted to die
among its worshippers
But the morbid greed for sensational
monstrocity was found to be insatiate, and
theatrical spectators have had the hardi-
hood to perpetuate the crime; and all over
America, and even in foreign lands. this
insult to the southern Inhabitants of the
American continent is unblushingly re-
peated by theatrical performances
The southern people have 1t in their
power to at least protect their children
from witnessing theatrical personation
of Mrs. Stoves outrageous invention,
uncle Toms Cabin" and the press OF
the south have it in their power to give
2 dark house to any players who dare
to come among their people with this base
affront Appeal to the people, not to the
atre owners, and stop the slovenly farce.
All honor to the noble women of Lex
ington, kentucky
WILLIAM c. CHASE.