New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-10-05
MIR, Publisher Putnam.

| We referred, some weeks since, to an article
in Putnam's Monthly Magazine, reproba-
ting in the EXTREMIST manner tine institution
| of slavery, and advocating the EXTREMIST meas
ures for its Limitation and suppression The
Magazine profcssed, at the outset, to be devoted
to literature, and solicited subscriptions and
contributions from all sections of the country.
The South--always q generous patron Of North
ern enterprise accepted the assurances and took
large numbers Of the Magazine. The first Of
fence committed was the insertion Of an unne-
cessary article of a political nature entitled
g Our New President 1t alienated many
friends and lost many supporters Very shortly
afterwards appeared the article to which we
allude-unjust, uncalled for, and untrue It
excited general indignation throughout the
Southern States, and probably led to greater
.diminution in Mr.. Publisher Putnams subscrip-
tion list than he had expected
The number Of &c Putnam" for the present
month, has a picture of Parke Goodwin, as
author of 4 Our New President" and conse-
quently Of the anti slavery essay 1t is pro-
mitigation Of authorship, and names to US one
Of Mr. Pntnams pet authors. Fortunately for
the early relief Of. the public mind, Mr. Goodwin
has just enough notoriety to let it be known
who he is. He is not an Englishman nor an Es-
quimaux-a politician nor poet He is not
an accepted philosopher nor an acknowledged
sage. He is simply a New York writer Of lin
tied reputation. very limited ability and unlim-
tied vanity man who has published great
deal that has died, and printed great deal that
was never read; scribbler of bad poetry and
a poor critic Of the fine arts Juvenal and
Junius are his models, and satire the branch in
which he strives to shine---or has hitherto
striven. His models, however, remain in ad-
vaneeof him, and his satire can only be desig-
mated as educated blackguardism poet of
like ability severely dashed by Macaulay--a
o certain Thompson, remarked in one of his YER
siGed outpourings, that
S Streams meander level with their founts
Without taking up the truth of the state
ment, but assuming it to mean only that water
seeks its level, we are confident that there will
be less Indignation here when it is known that
Parke Goodwin does the abolition articles for
Putnam's Magazine He is licensed charac-
ter, like the Angel Gabriel, and what he says
will trouble no one, when it is known that he
says it. Hereafter let the authors be known
and the true character Of the work proclaimed,
and no one will complain at its advocating ANAL
gamation. socialism, Or underground railroads.
Only have the right colors used.
Shortly after the publication of the abolition
essay to which we allude, the failure of an
g eminent New York publishing house . was an
nouneed then, that the house was that of G.
P. Putnam s. Co., and for the sum of $3.50, 600,
and finally that an extension had been prayed
for and granted. This sequence cannot we think
fail as lesson to some other Northern publish
ers who are wont to draw profit from the South.
The North itself acknowledges the folly of Put
nam's course, and the Albany Express, speaking
of the Magazine and the failure, says g The
infusion Of the political element into its other
wise unsullied columns has already left the
tracks of its corrupting mildew Its circula-
ton must have decreased, especially at the
South, with as much preeiF itancy as the mer-
curry in a thermometer tumbles down during a
sudden change in the weather