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Show 'J\. ~ i (\ l 0 g Itt. SCE:s-E.-A Jlla:,\1\:FAST TAOLE. Mm•. G oomL\~, a 'll'idoll'. l ;'J: A=->K Goou).L\:-i, 110' stm, bl1:. F 1aTll ,:-;, (t f::ioulh~rn gentleman, brolltcr to .Jlr3. Ooo(lman. hln. Dl:l')H', (t boarder. ~Ill. FllEE1L\~. (Sipping his cqf!ee and looNn;J over the morning papei·) reads- . "rrhc pcrfornwncc of Uncle rro.m's Ca.Uin nttrncts to the theatre very unusual aml icnce:-:. Tn tltc "gcn· tccl row" last cvcni1lg, we obscn·cd th·-- slrietcst n:ligionists of tl10 day, not excepting puritanic Pres byte· rionB, and the sober disciples of ·wesley oml Fox. FaT oursclvc~, we must candiL~ly confess we have liCYCr witnessed snch a play upon all the emotions of wllich l!Umnnity is Rusccptihlc. nirs. Stowe, llowC\"Cl' unwort11y the name of P:ttriot, is at least cntitlctl to the credit of seizing the great tho.nght of the age, and A DIALOG UE. 211 embodying it in such a form as to make it presentable to every order of mind aml every class of society. She snys, in cfiCct, to Legislators, let me furnish your amusements, and I c:Jxc not wl10 makes your laws." Politicians woul•l do well to look to this--(laying dou.m the paper and speak in;; i1t a. tone of t'mpatiencr:)f'O, so, Fanaticism is Jcn.<ling to its lcgitimntc results. Uncle rrom h1 our pn.rlor:::, Uncle rrom in our pulpits, n1Hl Uncle Tom in our plays. J..!t. Dryman. 'l'ruly "ltc catclh with puulicans on<l sinncr:-:;.n }[,·.F. (.Yot notiring }{r. D.'s nmwL) One would think this hst :-tpproprin.tion of the yauntccl ]Jcro 'rould he sufficic11t to convince the most rat1ical of tliC J.cmorali;~,ing influence or thc:-:c publications. Frank. (.l!oclcstly.) How cli[fercntly people jtul:;c. \\..-hy, b st evening, wl10n I saw crowds of i110 ] 1nrll· cnecl and diosipatccl shedding tears of honest sympa· thy, when Uncle rrom and E,,a sang, "!sec a bnnd of spirits bright, .AnO cou11ucl'iug palms they bcnr"- I fdt that the moral sentiment was asserting its stt· prcmacy even in places of amusement. |