New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-26

xl,eh M oy ca Inc ne spsper attacks upon Coope
II he had never medc led with questions OF govern
.srt ON either ,cs Of tue Atlshtc, and never sa,r
nee the newspaper press, have little doubt thai ne
would have been spared these afacks cannot,
ho~sver, ascrloe them all, or even me sresi pa,'
OF hem TO personal Daisbny. One journal foI-
loved the example Of another With little reflection,
,hrk IN NEST cases, I'll 10 pecane sort OF fashion
rot mercy to decry mis- works, but 10 arrhgn MS
II ia related that, in 1884, While he at Paris
article vas show u hIm IN an American newspaper,
purporipg to be ciiucum on ore OF ms wsiss, ou'
70 fse,inR with much asIerty on his personal char-
acters q. nothng, he Is reported to have SAID,
for the critlcsD but am Dot inc ferent 10 the slA-
GER il these attacks on my character shonid De
tbsl II sort 10 the New-YoIk Courts for protection
He gave the newspaper press OF TINS S'a'e the iuiI
reucd OF which he had liked, euf md
ing that foibtsrance seemed TO encourage assault,
he sought IecIets in the courts OF Ia
WHEN here ll,isatons were fret begun, recol
leet il seemed to ne that Cooper had taken step
which would give him great oeal OF trouble, and
Alas LeviaIhan isrot 90 tamsdP
Al he proct ecs O. saw that he had under
stood The matter better than L. He put hook into
TIE ncse OF this huge monster, waiio wing IN BIS nKy
pool and bespaittr Ig the patseB BY ne dragged
him 10 the lar AID made hun tractaole One SUI
followed another one editer sued, think half
a.oo7en times some OF the n found themselves I'M
Ger secord Indictment before the nrst was uied
In yincicsiiIg himself to his readers, against the
charge Of publishing one libel the angry Journalist
often foul cered into another. The OCCASIONS OF
there prost cutlons seem 10 have been always care
fully considered, fol- Cooper was uniformly SUGGEST
in February le43, about five years, think from Inc
commencement OF the first prosecutions, he says:
81 have beaten every man nave tusu, VINO mas NOS
retIacted his htes."
In OF of these suits commenced against the late
William Stone, Of The Commercial Advertiser, and
Iswytis he sIsued himself the question Of the au-
thencity OF his account Of the Battle OF Lake Erie
| which was the matter in dispute. ! listened to nus
oil fll md
his closing argument was said to be splendldiy eo-
quent II have heard nothing like IT," said q bar
| fister 10 ne, " since the days OF Emmett"
Cooper behaved literally toward his antagonists,
so far as ptcunaTy damages were concerned, though
some Of them wholly escaped their payment oy
bankruptcy. Alter, believe, about SIX years OF i!i
CATION, the newspaper press gradually subsidized into
pacific disposition toward It's adversary, and the
contest closed with the account Of pecuniary profit
and loss so far as he was concerned, nearly bal
| sIced The occasion OF these suits was lar from
| honorable to those who provoked them, but the
suit had almost said credtable to all parties
TO him. as the courageous prosecutor, 10 the admin
isIatCn OF justice In this country, and to the doci
ly OF the newspaper pre- IS, which he had disciplined
into coed manners.
twas while he was in the midst OF these litisa-
! tons that he published in 1910, the "PathhAder"
People had begun TO think of him controversial
let. acute, keen ard persevering, occupied with his
personal wrongs and schemes Of attack and defense.
They startled from this estimate OF his charac-
ter by the MOI al beauty Of that glorious ~ofkl must
call it by the vivloness and force Of is denea
items BY the unspoiled love OF nature, apparent In
| every page, and by the fresh and warm emotions
which even where save life 20 the narrative aud the
dialogue. Cooper wasIow IN his fifty first year out
LethlIg which be had produced In the earlier part
OF bis literary life was written with SO much of what
might the generous fervor of youth, or showed
the faculty OF invention In higher vigor. Tecoect
that near he time of its appearance was Informed
OF an observation made upon 1t by one highly dstia.
euished in the liter ature OF our country aad of the
| see, between whom and the author unhappy
GOODNESS had for some years existed. As he finished
tkn . paf GfAx Nlo Cd .
may say what they will OF Cooper the man who
wrote this book is not only great man, but good
| man"
The readers of the Pathfinder were quickly recon
ciled to the fourth appearance Of Lestherstockng,
when they saw him made 10 act different part from
any which the author bad hitherto assigned him
when they saw him shown as lover, and placed IN
The midst of ASSOCIATIONS which invested his chaYac-
ter with higher and more affecting heroism. IA
This work are two female characters, portrayed in
mastery manner, the corporals daughter, Mabel
| Durham, generous, resolute, ye. womany, and the
young Trojan woman, called BY her tribe the Dew of
JuIe, personi6cation OF female tiutb affection and
sympathy, with strong aboriginal cast, yet product
OF nature as bright and pure as that from which she
lsnsMed
Mrc.des of CASTLE published near the close OF tho
same year, has CT the stronger characteristics
OF CoopeIs eenlus but In the Ueersiayer, which ap
pearea in ls4l another of bis Leaherstocking tales,
| he gave us a work rlvalipg the Pathfinder. Lea
ss is brought before Us in his early youth
blended so tremendously with simple and In gen.
| uGus goodness. The tHO daughters OF the retired
| freebooter dwelling on the Otsfgo lake. inspire
scarcely less interest than the principal personaee
Judnh Ia the pride of her beauty and Intellect her
| coed impulses conendipg with n fatal love Of AL
NH at,cn holding us fascinated with n constant in
| terest in her fate which, with consummate skin.
we permitted rather to conjecture than to know
and Hetiy, scarcely less beautiful in person. weak.
minced but wise IN the midst of that weakness be-
You'd the wisdom OF the leest int through the
power OF conscience and religion The Character
Of Hetty would have been hazardous experiment
IN fetber hands, but In his 1t was admirably sue.
cessiul
The 7To AdmiraIs and Wing. and Wing were given
to the public IN le42 both OF them taking high rank
imorg Coopers seatales The hrst OF these is sort