The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-01-13
Lola Woutee' Con trOversy-StateniSnt of
L. II. willis.

To TnG CoUSrEss LASpsrELp--
In taking up the HpRAIp Of yesterday surprise
to find myself honored by letter FROM you that must
confess cStoiisi, following as II did the decision
Of mag. nation had not given loU credit for
My remedy Tor this letter ttlee.to!d. / could
you eriminslIy AID ciyiiy-that wouli havs been
your letterb-thet oud have been breach Of CONT
dense; or could collect um If you for my services
that would have been unworthy gentleman
Besides, who heard Of your being banked in any
Of YOU caprees' Did you not bring respectable old
lady OF the Court of Bavaria who had Offended you
mock trial in presence CT the King and his coriers
convict htr-yery much TO her surprse-of having 1es
royed her legtimate ospriEs and actually burn her in
efRy in her presence, Oh no. ctere Cou,tess. to
bauk you would spoil you; and you are too uniqu
specimen not only Of this but Of any century for u
not to make small sacrifice to you te the col
lection.
People may talk much they please Of Cieopatras-
OF Du Barrys-of De fEnclos, and Of Shoresthese
but the first.
Our acquaintance, Countess, commenced in Paris,
nothing, Is We have each Of expressed different
opinion on the subject Suffice it 70 say that found
and your salons nightly filled with til. pls isar e,p
de Paris and with the purest of the cream Of cream of
art Horace Vernet had given your portrait to potterty
vain duplicated you to pose for statue Me.y, Bar
theny and Dumas his all celebrated ecu in odes What
G ssd 5 pp Sa had
crown You bad subsequently fear,sssly entered the
rigid and ley barriers Of Engi,a society-seized
receive you on equal terms. Tired OF your pay:
thing, you had cast it III, and returned to Paris to
cupy the most envable place in the world for
that Of queen Of society the spiritue the mos.
Polished the most elegant that ex lists IN the world
stu you pinned fog new conauests and like Alexander,
cried almost to think you had worlds to
This was about the time Of first quaintsncs anu
was at that time the only American you knew
Your idea Of America ives that OF many cultivated
people have met abroad and made up principally OF
what you had read 10 Coopers novels You flcied too
that the country about New ork filed with exotic
Twill and
vegetation.
As your eyes were little open to what Ame-
RIGA really wac irresistible desire seized upon ysu to
add this too to your corGuest and Ike another parro
Jon medisely ret about the execution your rroec
With your usual direct and straightforward intention,
you Weuld nave made dssh az once the president.
had you not been informed that the President In AIre
rica was but simple citizen snl that the sovereign in
America was Re pgpe How then 10 conquer he pecrle
Your ,ubsequent movements will show.
You took capital ballet master e the Opera Nr
Mobile -Four monhs Of incesssut practice, With two
lessons day, brought yen 70 a perfection VOC could
never have bsheEed yourself t.ia trip 10 The pro.
vince with The rlost overwhelming success convinced
you that rot mistaken In you- estimate Of your
ell. Then ct.1e your rasssge 70 America.
By one Of hcse eStiRordnary that only
hsppon T. perpla Ike yourself or your patssse hal
been taken two months before KossGth was a pissen-
ger on board the came ship Many time as you sat on
deck On the lee side of the smoke pipe bundled up Ia
your tsNp and smoking your cigarette have watched
You taking the measure the mild Mag5ar as he st-ode
up ana down Tie Jeok: But for strange reason
theIe wac 10 sympathy between you lou rcrc 100 nue..
diite
Arrived n New YORK you lived retired aud secluded
sspoahe refusing suncry governors aud other d,ni-
thfsH Tho Wsbtd TO be presented C. you aud this for
Two resson5oue to from The flues OF The vow
age, and the osher to recover ycur practice.
GU made yoIr dbf, notw landing TIE duIness of
the Theatre season, with Distinguished success You
nave danced every night for more than fortnight, to
be'ttr eugagemept than eny artist had at theatre
IN tis country Bat this IL but The dawn OF your TIL
umth As yol proceed TO the gepa, South with tenn
PERI and Compartments oorgeui,t 20 your own YOU
wilfel more fully your power ana with the sympathy
that You viii naturally excite in the warm hearted sons
OF the South, you vi, march .sively from t
umph to triumph till you attain the tcat OF govern
nient itself the apogee " your full success.
you are We'll known not tn be upgcnerous may ask
you then to remember and obtain Tor me commits
sion oI vorsres5 to make your statue be placed on
the summit Of the Capitol would suggest the yo,e ia
yeur Inen.Ac when after having crushed the sc6rpop
you Use suddenly the points OF your tees with rh
triumphant air OF lion his prey to ray with look
once seen never forgotten, Nor, then fhoue done IL
After the United States you have eft to you Havana
anu Mexico, wa'ch are suhjugated 20 you in advance
HAVING then con Quered the world 10th cid and new
what remains TO you The question posed by me to
several Of your distinguished friends in Paris without one
being able to answer 1t is enigma which iuturity
only can reveal ''
In taking leave Of you, publicly as we'll a. privately
forever az you never had aught fro me but nv best
wshes and Efforts for your success have but to rub
scribe myself Your cbcdient servant,
"a II wrryys