The Arkansas banner., 1844-02-27

some of the publishers rendered ba|s, punity, and the apparent sympatb.
 public, had the effrontery to tax w;,I
 tude the indignant authors, whose M Iss
 had appropriated to their own profit ing them with an indifference to fama
 they murmured at robbery; the who can read without a blush. tbo Y
 Carlyle and Sydney Smith, upon th;s
 must entertain very different views ' honesty from ours ]; since the rea,s
 the publishers to them, resemblas
 that used by the sage Augustus To.
 in < Paul Clifford" who comforts ,s' rited traveller, whose pockets he h.. with the assurance, that he has been perform benevolent action in reliss
 wants of the distressed.
 We are aware that these are hard tru,. we believe them to be true, no sensibiEfr
 vent our giving them utterance, and exnrsssI
 things in plain words to the motives of X differ from us, we accord all due credit la. seem to us that no claim of reasoning, bowss. and ingenious, can do away with the fo,s plain statement of facts set forth abovo
 notignorant of the fact, that tmany ingenioa, have been made for the publishers to nslr.' invasion of the rights of authors; some er.s so far as to deny that an author has anv n,' the creations of his own mind, and thst f.VI Ia of publication, he makes them the commos of all mankind, and loses all claim unon A
 stand h the trsi s4 s1 ment's reflection; if admitted, 1t would s1s. root of all intellectual labor, and make ha istence of copyright continued act of inn, inn
 Can 1t be seriously urged that our Rs,.s Tailor, who cater solely to our physical r w,,s be amply remunerated; while he, whose l.s directed towards the cultivation of the msa| portion of our nature, who addressed him,s, immortal mind of man, shall lay his nricslal at our feet, and there, like poor pensions, \ wait for the aims which we may be pleasai7' stow upon him: if such are to be the rew,,a such the position of those, who waste tbe s1 their youth and the yigor of their manhood \ ful and protracted study, " Slaves of the Ia,1 cheered by the sweet smile of woman. orf,] ing plandits of the crowd how mad must ha I would voluntarily incur doom of such paips1 gerry and abject slavery
 The topic is a fruitful one, but we thinI has been said to sustain the positions we M vanced, viz: that the system has crushed stroyed all native authorship, and that f s upon the most glaring wrong and iniustice therefore proceed to substantiate our tbim which is, that the character of the most wis1 culated publications of this class, is such ,1 and corrupt the minds of our youth. 'E.] complained of in the second charge is of 1, not Immediately perceptible to superfciad] the bad effects being Consequential. rather N mediate; but this last evil is of such an a] glaring character as 10 be obvious to the dd] ception, and of itself, sufficient to cast As1 system into disrepute, if fully proven and s]
 The first works with which this rnovem.] menced, as we before observed, were the rn] tions of English Magazines :; then succeed rapid and cheap republications of English the sale of these was so profitable that rtd standard works of fiction followed next. wja sionally, work of grave and solid ehar] give character to the undertaking. 4 \ works of fiction was thus created among tbp public. the demand exceeded the supply. a were compelled to eile out with works of y3 rior merit, and these tended to vitiate still the public taste by the application of stimpIy til solid food was distasteful to them: alha yet, no positive evil has-been done. Butas cedented success of this new movement call ther class into the field; the harpies of Bs came aocking in unbidden to the banquet. filed with their filthy touch the food which he set before the people; the licentious Id Charles Paul de Rock and George Sani Dudevant) and other kindred spirits were ts and published in pamphlet-lorn, thrown ba public just at the lime when it was thirstinz excitement; they spread like wildfire, and ". lowed by others of similar character, untlt. lie sentiment, in the large cities, became soTI that works of gross immortality were opeply in the public streets. Nor did the evil stoph it spread in black and filthy stream over ts and breadth of our land.
 It may be thought that we had exaggenj extent of this evil, but we do not speak full say, but from the evidence of our own senses; ing the last two years, we have visited alnos section of the Union, and the books which view more often than any other, were the p French novels to which we have alluded a the untiring energy of agents, these books laa etrated into the most secluded villages taud public morals and scattering the seeds of vic cast over the land and this is the substtuh .' Cheap Publication'' has given us for ghhl Literature of our own.
 De Rock has been called "The BulwerofFa but the very coupling of their names togeth5 insult to the latter, who, if he has at times from the strict line of propriety, would yet < prostitute his talents to the detail of scenes vice and criminal indulgence, and such see4 the sole aim and end of the French novelist der virtue ridiculous and vice attractive, 4 very talent he displays in the prosecuia| task renders his novels the most dangeroul as the most fascinating to inexperienced yOla) they are every cheap" |" only one shilling therefore, prudent fathers of families musten a system which reduces so much the price dI Sc,
 George Sand (Mdme Dudevant) is, if H worse in her morals, eff the term may be as] the absence of all morality,) than Paul nI but as she is lady, or at least a female \ pass both her and her novels by in expresslTed Is it wonderful then, that the moral tone ofl ! who encourage and foster system based upa| and productive of such fruits, should becoms llcentious in the extreme; and is not this Id already indicated, by the rapid and alarmins of crime, Tn every portion of our country VI dense population affords facilities for its conal
 Is not repudiation both by States and ild1 daily becoming more fashionable? Are nch n of trust becoming matters of every days ocer) Is not the defaulting cashier of bank nowf only as an able financierl and is not the con between man and man each day shaken na| more? Let him who can shut his eyes to Fl with the proofs staring him in the face; w If we would. The great want of this coulH| want of faith; we do not mean religious anl use the term in it's most comprehensive senss fidence in human integrity and honesty, N which, enlarged views and liberal teeiassss exist among people; for the public mind, pI| of some nobler subjects of contemplaton ' absorbed in projects of speculation, and h1] down to mean and selfish views of human and human life.
 The phrase, knowledge of the world, VI construed by a sarcastic wit to mean ga kno'j of all the rascals in it," and this dehnllloa seem with us to have become part of the creed, since one of our most upright anu ! statesmen has been declared '.impractlcahs his open sincerity of character La strong mentary on the state of public feeling coaa
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