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The Liberator
[Unsigned Reprint]
Boston: 16 December 1853

  CLERICAL INDIGNATION. From the Charleston Whig, edited by the Rev. W. G. Brownlow, we extract this interesting indignation item:

  'Uncle Tom's Cabin.' We are surprised to learn from our exchanges, that this insulting play has been performed at the Charleston theatre, so recently as Monday evening last. The Savannah Journal states that tickets were in such great demand as to have been sold out early in the day.—The Charlestonians did themselves no honor by attending on this occasion. They ought to have given the "players" a coat of tar and feathers, selling their tickets at full price, and applying the proceeds to aid in erecting an African House of Worship. The audacious announcement in Charleston, of such a play, was an insult to the city; and then for the city authorities to have tolerated it, was an outrage upon the South.'

  What makes this indignant outbreak the more ridiculous is, that it refers unwittingly to a broad burlesque of Uncle Tom, as will be seen by the following article from a Savannah paper:—

  'To-night introduced for the first time before a Savannah audience, the comic and caustic Burletta of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." This representation, comprised in two scenes, is intended to illustrate negro "Freedom at the North, and service at the South." Among the personages who figure in the scene, which is laid the other side of Mason and Dixon's line, "Aunt Harriet Beecher Stowe," and her "Mon Frere" in sable sympathy, "Horace Greasy," are most prominent.'