Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1846-03-28
From The MaySuilie Eagle.
EUGENE SUE-THE WANDERING
JEW.

JEW
Eugene Sue, as every body knows.
the celebrated author Of the Mysteries z
Paris, the Wandering Jew, and other lIk
productions. As this distinguished ind
ylduai has attained so much celebrity q
late, perhaps it would be interesting 10 GU
readers 10 give some particulars in. rea
ton to the history OF SO remarkable a man
and also briefly 10 notice his most popu
lar and able production, styled The Wan
derIng Jew, especially for the benefit Of
nose who have not had an opportunity o.
disposition 10 peruse the work.
In an able review Of this production
recently published in the Southern Quar-
terIy, We have the following brief histor,
oil the character OF Eugene Sue:-"lt is
well known that Eugene Sue is a worn
out T0"e--a spendlhrlt who squandered
his Patrlmony and ruined himself by his
extravaganza in the fashionable circles
IN Paris, and who is now endeavorng tc
patch up his broken fortunes by retailing
like Rousseau, though under the guise OF
fiction, the results oil his own experience,
and publishing for gain, the chronicle OF
vices which of yore he practced."
Alter tracing out fully The character OF
this work, and giving perhaps the sever
est and most deserving castigation that
any author has received, the reviewer
thus condenses all his arguments in mar
row space at the conclusion Of his article:
-Natchez Courier.
Our censure is nearly ended; we will
bring our article, already too long for our
wishes, though not Tor our purposes, to
speedy close, by summing up briefly our
observations, upon "rhe Wandering lew"
We denounce it to the world as hot bed
OF all impurities--as a legitimate contin.
uatlon OF all that was worst ia the school
of Voltaire and Rousseau-as a systema
tic attack upon all morality and all rell-
glon--as obscene in The highest degree
as calculated, by its tendencies to corrupt
and dlsorganlze any decent society--as
traught with danger to all social order
as tirebrand thrown into our midst to
kIndle ali the vilest passions of human
nature--as an incentive 10 lust, and an
advocate Of its excesses--as not only per-
nlclous but fatal 10 all yirtue--as an insid
Gus scheme TO undermine female chasi- |
ty-as work repete with the grossest
poIlutIon-a on these accounts, we de.
mand its Reproduction by all honest men,
by all who have sufficient decency not to
wish society to be perverted into a style
OF filthy hogs, and pestiIenliuI sink of
rottiness and pollution. We are assured
that those TO whom female purity is
the bright green spot amidst the fraiIties,
errors and crimes Of fallen world, will
lend US their aid in discountenancing
book, which would substitute the morals
OF a brolhel for the chastity Of innocence;
and every father, every husband, every
brother, not los; TO the admiration of vir
tue, will JOIN in lmprecaions OF scorn up.
on the Sue, till long, and loud, and deep
rises the curse of outraged humanity to
10 utter iniamy and detestation
the perfdious assaiIant.
The talents and genius oil Sue, which
we have fully submitted, only entite him
to tenfold indignatian; he has prosecuted
those high gifts to base purposes; and for
this perversion, he should be exied to the
lowest sink of Dante's hell.