Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1852-04-10
A LETTER FROM LOLA MoNrEz.
fremont HOUSE. March %. 1876

With your edition OF Saturday you saw III
10 take exception TO visit paid by me to
several OF your public schools, in comrany
with two OF your respectable fellow-citizens.
This exception was based on reports spread
TO my detriment by my Jesuitc enemies,
and as TO the truth or falsehuod of which
you assert that you know nothing. Now
harm, in visit by stranger 10 the most
wonderful and interesting of all your insti- !
tulions, or in the base, FALSE dishonest, un-
gentlemanly, unchariable construction YOU |
have put upon it Do you think, sir, that
one of those children would have had an
impure or improper thought connected with |
my visit if it had not been put into their
heads by yourself? Believe me, sir there is
often more impur,y in the mind of the c,itic
than in the object Of his criticism. 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 lth,
who would object 10 the painting of the
Last Judgment, and throw bronze drapery
over the statue of Prudence, and like Mi
chae Angelo 10 the Pope, might reply 10
you, sir, "Reform the porld, and these aspcr-
sionS tcil reform Themselves"
You think it improper, sir, for a "danse-
nse" 10 visit one of your public institutions !
Did your fellow citizens think it improper TO
accept the cap stone of the Bunker Hill
Monument from Fanny Elssler Do you
think ii improper for your public institutions
daily to receive willing contributions from
The hard earned salary of artists If you
do, you might make it the subject Of your
next poem, fer am informed that you are
or have been poet, though never should
have suspected it from so illiberaI, ungente
manly, and immoral constructions. If you
do not, pray do not open your mouth again
on the subject of the visi, of an artist 10
public institution.
With regard 10 my talent, it would be I'M
becoming in me to speak-or quoe-but TO
say that have ever posed myself in this
country in any other quality than that of an
artiSie, is false in the throat OF whoever may
say it.
| had the offer made 10 me when in Eu-
rope, Of entering America triumphanily.-
Triumphant arches were offered to be erect
ed for me on the pier, garIands 10 be hung
across my way, flowers spread over my
track, and my carriage drawn 10 my hotel
by human hands, amidst showers of boquels
and vivas. All this declined. If there is
any thing that thoroughly delest, ii is hum
bug. | even declined, on arriving, the free
use of the telegraph, which was coureously
rendered me by the gentlenanly proprieors
and in no case have made interest 10 buy
the good opinion Of the journals.
1t had cost me 10 return to the stage scald
ing tears but was determined if succeed
ed at all, it should be legitimcteiu in the pur
suit OF my profession as an drtisie, though
was as well satisfied as the man who mad,
me the offer, that in refusing il was sacri
ficing great many dollars TO my principle
had too much amour prop'e, sir, TO b,
shown up like a woolly horse or white
negro, bnt it is satisfaction to know tha' i
it is | who have suffered by it, it is the pub
lie which has gained, and that instead o
paying SO up 10 fabulous price for tickets
of seeing me for a much smallar sum.
was counselled by several of my friend
in New York 10 purchase the esteem of thos
whose mind had been influenced by the Je
snitical stories in circulation with regard Il
me, by giving the receipts of my first nigh
TO public? charities. The idea was repug
nant to me, and refused doing so till tn,
eve OF the close of my engagements, whet
| have invariably given them benefit
when could obtain the permission Of tn,
directors of the theatre.
speak of Jes,uticaI lies mentioned t
few friends in Paris my intention of com
ing 10 America on an artistic tour. Imme
diately all the journals from Canada 10 Mex
leo are loaded with communications heap
lag npon me all the ephels in The vocabu
iary backyard, 1t was also said that
tanned wild horses horse-w hipped gendQrme
Knocked flies with pistol ball off The bali
heads of aldermen, fought duels, threw peo
pie overheard for the sake of saving then
itom drowning, and a multitude of olhe
similar ieals. Now, sir, do You see the 81,
JesuIlcaI, infamous design of all this
was simply to unsex me. To deprive me G
that high, noble, chivalrous protection
which is so universally accorded to wome
in this country b. generous men.
Very well, sir, did they succeed? hav
been now four months in this country an
my success, instead Of diminishing, has il
creased from the first moment up 10 the prt
sent time. Americans are no fools, sir, an
believe me, though they may be impose
upon at first, they soon come again 10 the
senses.
finally arrived here in your tri-mounta
city, pleasantly associated by me with n
own adopted name, and which had mo
curiosity TO see than ever had had Cor II
far famed city of the seuen. The latter vi
the heaihen mystic number, but the form
~as that Of the Christian Trinity, and W
connected in my mind with those aObl
seif-saerifcina, devnted men, who were ey