Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-12-30
DICKENS AND HIS CRITICS.

To he editor Of the Free Press
am heartily glad, my dear sir whoever you arc, to learn as
doom Pape that preparing TO die with decon
e This awaya contamination most devouty to DO wish
d anu your you are IN TACT something more
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your columns" Is q" i'om" news nj "hehi iee' peculiarly
feeu Inc grace win "hich you announce IT. and
' anu 'o"posue WIN which you 'maiHe up your 'ace'
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Won ,ote TINT psr,grapb Unless Won used the word, Sin
,ens ou will see the proprey of t once pocing
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M ipsn,ion air of ,oing critically md n, length over
sb oud iolved in bis coesnondenc. Tbe facts of the
ease uro very simple You published letter over the name of
Mr. Dickens months after its first appearance and long while
sor genuneness generally discedted You nccompan-
led it with auson upon it,
but with comments which the liberty think very
pccous shallow. In letter your paper asked, in
effect your readers would receive your
preston the truth of the and if the friends of Mr..
Dickens had good complain of the you
sued thought explanation ofhe mode in which fell into
remarkable for the conductor Of public newspaper
due to both and although you had personally explained
In private could how your readers
of Mr. Dickens, were to be satisfied by that Evidently you
thought SO oO for Immediately made public the
had given me for publishing the ieer-namsy that
ignorant Of its having been suspected This you did Justice
toyouolf" Persons who did not understand such mysteries
might wonder how paper could edit Itself while you were alb
sent and be inclined to suppose that the who continued
columns, with quite as mnch dignity your
se ought to know for tho benefit OF the paper what
ing on IN the world around him. But the reason you gave
was at al events available with others as with meand
accordingly in due form presented it, You thus admit the truth
of the charge aud put in defence but think that us
tine to yOurse demands that should likewise mpeach
motives in MAXIM i-and make mp personal nth
after you have satisfied your readers. You therefore,
private conversation with me- not to aid the explanation at all
upon the personal quarrel on which you as
resolved. Now if see nothing improper in this shall
mot undertake the somewhat formidable task you enghten