From the A. S. Standard.

  This is the language employed by the New York Observer in speaking of the National Theatre, where the drama of Uncle Tom's Cabin is being played. The particular circumstance which excited the Observer's wrath was the announcement that little Cordelia Howard, who plays the character of Eva so beautifully as to win universal applause, had induced her father to set apart one dollar a night, the fruit of her earnings, for Mr. Pease's mission at the Five Points. The Observer says:

  "There is not a greater rendezvous for prostitution and iniquity of every sort than this same National Theatre. Undoubtedly, the moral character of the play which has for the last few months been nightly exhibited on its stage, and with so much success, has been the means of inticing hundreds of innocent souls within its halls and on the road to ruin. But Satan has indeed put on the double garb of an angel of light when, as a means of alluring a still larger number of them into his snares, he clothes himself, through the columns of that same N. Y. Tribune, with the eminently righteous work of devoting a dollar a night for the support of a charity to which the National Theatre, with the above zealous aid, is nightly adding to its victims."

  It must be admitted that the National Theatre, as formerly conducted, was obnoxious, to some extent, to the charge which the Observer brings against it; but in putting the drama of Uncle Tom upon his stage, the manager has produced a complete revolution. The place is now frequented by persons of the highest respectability, by religious people, not excepting clergymen. The harlotry so conspicuous formerly has been completely exorcised by the spirt of Anti-Slavery—that spirit which the Observer hates with all the malignity of its festering hypocritical heart. The editor of the Sunday Atlas, having visited the theatre recently, was struck by this fact. He says:

  "There was not, in the whole establishment, unless she was under sanctified hypocritical protection, which we do not believe was the case, one of those frail sisters of the town and pave, who nightly seek a market-place in the corridors of other theatres; and when we said to a somewhat ultra republican friend, 'it seems to us, from the aspect of things, that there are no wantons in this theatre,' he replied, 'No-sir-ee! them's the women and gals that don't come here. No-sir-ee! These ere gals and women go where trade is kept up; this ere theatre is one that goes in for religion, virtue, morality—and liberty.' Although the words somewhat faltered on the lips of our republican friend, we understood them without the aid of an interpreter, and learned a lesson which older men might learn and cherish, to their credit and advantage."

  Thus it will be seen that the harlots, like the Observer, are not much attracted by Anti-Slavery. They agree, in fact, in repudiating it. Jesus, however, said of that class in his day, that they would go into the kingdom before the Scribes and Pharisees, and we have no doubt that the harlots of New York have more of genuine humanity in their hearts than the Editors of the Observer, and others who, like them, go for slave-catching in the name of Christ.

  The Observer, in supporting Slavery, supports a system of licentiousness and prostitution a great deal worse than that of which ordinary Theatres are too often the nucleus. Slavery forces its victims to become prostitutes, while the licentiousness of our Northern cities has at least this advantage in the comparison, viz., that its victims are not compelled by law to sacrifice their virtue. The drama of Uncle Tom reveals this feature of the slave system in a very impressive manner, and is in itself a lesson of moral purity. The Observer, in supporting the Fugitive Slave Law, goes for seizing the woman who seeks to preserve her chastity by flight, and forcing her, by the whole power of the U. S. Government, to submit to the lecherous embraces of her master. The paper which advocates villainy like this has the cool effrontery to pretend to be shocked by the licentiousness of the Theatre!