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A DRAMATIC CRITIC
and heard Adelaide Phillipps, a young girl
and a novice, but wonderfully easy and
melodious in the garnish of the boy hero,
Cherry ; and in The Forty Thieves I had
my first view of William Warren, who
impersonated Mustapha, the cheerful cob-
bler, whose delicate professional job it was
to sew together the severed sections of a
human trunk.
Only a little later Uncle Tom's Cabin
was dramatized, and took possession of
the stage in the Northern States. The
theatre, which never recognizes or sees
any public movement that is not on the
surface of the life of the community, had
not dreamed of the great anti-slavery sen-
timent which had been growing *like the
substance of an avalanche for twenty years.
The only slaves known to the stage had
been the sprightly young darky, nimble in
jig and breakdown, and the ragged, obese
old grayhead, exuberant of and as to ham
and 'possum fat ; and both these colored
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