The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-04-03
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6t 10 take exception 10 a visit paid by me to
several of your public schools, ~ company
with two OF your respectable fellow citzehs.
This exception was based on reports spread
10 my deifiment by my Jesntiic enemiss, and
AZ 10 the truth or iasehood of which you as
sert. YOU know nothing Now, permit me TO
ask YOU where is the most harm, in visit by
a stranger TO the most wonderful aud interest
ing of all your institutions, in the base, false
dishonest, ungcnilenanly, uncharitable con
siruction you have put upon i'll Do you
think, sir, that one of those children would
nave had an impure or improper thought con-
nected with my visit If il had not been put into
their heads by yourselfl Believe me, sir,
there is often more impurity in the mind OF
the critic than in the object of his eriticism.-
There are men who would stand before the
Venus of Medici and the Apollo of Belvidere,
and see nothing in them but their nudity
There are men living like Paul the fourth,
who would object TO the painting OF the Last
Judgment, and throw bronze drapery over
the statue of Prudence, and like Michael An
gelo to the Pope, might reply TO you, sir,
reform the world, and these aspersIons Will
| reform themselves"
You think improper, sir, for danseuse 10
| visit one of your public institutions! Did
! your fellow citizens think it improper to ac-
cept The cap-s,one of the Bunker Hill Monu-
ment from Fanny Elserl Do you think il
! improper for your public institutions daily 10
| receive willing contributions from the hard
earned salary Of artists If you do. you
might make il the subject Of your next poem,
| for | am informed that you are, or have been
| a poet, though | never should have suspected
| it from so illiberal, ungentlemanly, and inmo-
| raj constructions. If you do not, pray do not
| open your mouth again on the subject CT the
| visit of al artist, TO a public institution.
With regard to my talent, it would be I'M
| becoming in me TO speaker quote-but TO
say that have ever posed myself in this
country in any other quality than that of an
| artistic, is false, in the throat of whoever may
say it.
1 had the offer made to me when in Europe,
| of entering America iriumphantlv. Trum-
plant arches were offered to be erected for me
on the pier, garlands to be hung across my
way, flowers spread over my track, and my
carriage drawn to my hotel by human hands,
amidst showers Of bouquets and vivas. All
this | declined. If there is anything that |
thoroughly detest, it is humbug. | even de-
clined, on arriving, the free use of the tele-
g.aph, which was courteously rendered me by
the gentlemanly proprietors; and in no cuse
have made interest to buy the good opinions
of journals.
1t had cost me TO return TO the stage scald-
ing tears, but was determined if succeed
ed at all, ii should be legitimately in the pur-
SUIT OF my profession as an artistic, though |
was as well satisfied as the man who made
Inc the offer, that in refusing it was sacrfc-
ing great many dollars to my principles.
mad too much amour pr0Ore, sir, to be shown
up Ike woolly horse Or white negro; but it
is satisfaction to know that if il is | who
have suffered by it, it is the public which
has gained, and that instead of paying from
So up 10 a fabulous price for tickets all who
desired il have had the satisfaction of seeing
me tor much smaller sum. | was coun-
selled by several OF my friends in New York
10 purchase the esteem of those whose minds
had been Influenced by the Jesuitical stories
IN circulation with regard to me, by giving
the receipt OF my first night to public char
ries. The idea was repugnant to me, and
refused doing SO Till the eve of the close of nv
engagements, when | have invariably given
them benefit, when | could obtain the per-
mission THE directors of the theatre.
speak OF JesuitIcul lies. | mentioned to
few friends, in Paris, my intention of coming
to America on an artistic tour. Immediately
all the journals, from Canada TO Mexico, were
flooded with communications heaping upon
me all the epithets in the vocabulary black
guard. 1t was said, also, that | tanned wild
horses. horsewhpped gendarmes, knocked
flies with pistol ball off the bald heads OF
aldermen, Tough; dueIs, threw people over.
board for the sake of saving them from drown
ing, and multitude of other similar feuts-
NOW, sir. do you see the sly, Jesuitical ,infa-
nous design of all this? 1t was simply TO un.
sex me-to deprive me of that high, noble.
chlvalrous protection, which is so universally
accorded to woman in this country by gene.
rOus men.
Very well sir; did they succeeJ2 I have
been now tour months in this country, and nv |
success, instead OF diminishing, has increased. |
from the first moment up to the present time
Americans are no fools, Sir; and, believe me
though they may be imposed upon at 6rst'
they soon come again to their senses.
hnaily arrived here in your tri-mountaiu
CITY: pleasantly associated by me with nv own
adopted name, and which had more curiosity
to see than ever had had for the far famed
city of the seven. The latter was the heath
en- mystic number. but the former was that of
the Christian trinity, and was connected in nv
nina with those noble, self sacrificing, devoted
men, VINO were ever The objects OF my admira-
ton, had twice been placed under the nro-
tection oil It's ciizens-once by my parents in
India, on voyage TO England, and once an
my pilgrimage to this country, end in neither
case had l cause to.regret the choice thar had
been made for me. '''
say my pilgrimage to America, for it was
indeed pilgrimage. Not such as WAS mode
y ,hose gallant, noble men who steered their
park to plymouth rock-but more like tha, n
over would make TO the mistress of his hear,
!, disciple OF Mahomet to his long dreamed Of
Mecca, a Catholic derot to the adored and
vorshipped shrine of his saint. And as lover
Il The feet OF his adored mistress, a M ahomme.
Ian before the self-suspended coffin of the
'rophet-a travel worn peitegrino PROSTATE
'efore the baldacehino of ST. Peter at Rome.
% have bowed, silent content and happy be-
ore the only successful realization of a prp.
iple to which have devoted my life. And y
low when |, as stranger, wish to paw visit
o these nurseries of your noble s,atesmen-
our Wehsters, your Calhouns, your Claws
you cry out against me as an intruder F;a
N you, sir For an i'll bred, snarIing eur. IN.
worthy 10 stand at the portal of public on;n.
On opih-
. !, \ had oeen told that you were good little
ellew and published a good l;t,ia 80"
hough you did fail play writer. Sick pI ~
'oar new trade, sir, and praise your Vespueci L
ma other favorites as much as You please hnt 9