Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1845-06-23
Ess sss.. MONDAY MORNING., EUNE .e;s, I5.
From The Boston HAS.
THE TWO MONrGOMERiES-JA AND


but have been somewhat SURPRISED la find thai in I'M
country their productions have noi been sufficiently d
tngushrd from each other James often bearing The loo,
oi Roberts dizziness and Robert IN Ian, nuov ,sS anccs
receiving the credit due 10 his namesake TINS shou!,
not be- for the one Is true poet and the other hui, hen
ter than PIE ender 10 thai hl,h and hunorcd drsgua.
ton.
About the year ISIS, was on visit in The city nj
Bath, aud Was there first saw Robert Montgomery
lie was then reporter On one Of the Bath new spapets
and pretty well known too as writer of certain verses
that occasionally made their nnnrarancr In the verk y
journals. lie Was very dmdvi,h in arrcnlanrc. and
rather good hooking but h pssessod AS hrre share of
personal vanity as could well l1l Ia the lot If any one
person. At that iime he had uu prehxed thr syllable
Mont to his uame witch IN r,ally is Gomefy h. Ne.
Ing the II noted ACTOR Of that name wlo Tor many
years performed the pafi Of cluwn IN he boards Of the
Bath and Bristol 'rhcalfes. To wAeh establishments his
maternal relative had the honor Of b.inp vashpryoua
IN nd uary do nratin this tom any feeling Of
dsrtSpec towards these worthy individuals who mn, ht
nave been very reputable in hrir satius lor uuph,
know-nor for the purpose of rideulinp Their snn-hr
however seems was snmewha assumed ~ his orip
Tor as he could manage do So he discarded the
family name. OF SO altered it, thai IL sounded a little
more masnNquent, and looked more imposing on pa
per.
Robert snon left the newspapers and edited prriodi
cal called the Bath Star by which means he prorurcd
sufficient money to enable him To improve his defective
education. He now BEGAN To attract some notice. and as
Bath was then flied with number of pnus elderly In
10 their tastes tried his hand Rpls
poetry Tins led To his writing the "Omnipresence of
the DeIty," and his chance Of name
Now this alteration Of tbi three 81 ahpd perenial an.
pellalon was dcxteruns move in Mr. tiomery,s oan
of literary hie-aud in the opiun Of many urrsons 4
very coniempbln one loo E,r n lipy serss Al ,.,rs
James Montgomery Of Sheffield. the author Of the
s'Word bel ne the Fopd g" and many nlher sacred ma
of high merit had been before he public aud was
universally known by his well earned title of the hs
Ian Poet" ANY new production Of his pen was anN ous
cess SO when the The Omnipresence Of the Deity ~
by Montgomery. was announced. every one believed
that James had produced another III hls sacred poems;
and lhe consequence WAS that Maunder tie pnblisher
had several editions ordered lone before the volume actu
ally made It's appearance No Other Moutoonery ,ban
James was known aud The trek IN il could e eunsid
cred as nothing else-succepded II adulgltmn Edition
after edition ol the sham Muupomeroy production was
rapidly exhausted and When The Christian name Of Rob
ef was at len iii talked abu IT. the yuulr nni's plpunr
Nv evidenced by the great sale Of his huuh was nun,
peled about IN all the old lady coiefes 81 the land on
course great many persons were dsgused hut what of
shat2-A hi had been mad, aud A hile f,rlune tou
polok's Course ot Tine" which was published about
the same period Montgomery 5 "Omnpresence," vas
although really Gne prodnctlon amust lost In he blaze
oi popularity which lighted the rival poem; but W il
sun, IN sashlng crltlqne IN Blackwood's Magazine
stripped the borrowed plumes from the Jackdaw oi lite
raur', and bestowed ON Pollok The nshiiul rewhid o
genius
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As Inc vast asse'holaee sang Logan 5 wynn
"Oh! God oi bethel, by whose hand
Thy children sill are led.
And through this weary pilgrimage
Hast all our alhers led,
Dr. Chalmers ascendeG the pal PIT stairs. could not
well Judge Of his height or flure because If The gov n
which he wore-bui his eouulenahcp was Daauefoypcd
ON my memory, and when saw. month OF two since,
in New Nofk Henry Innan's fine portrait al him, the
man himself seemed as though he had yoyagcd across
the Atlantic and was standing before me-