Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-10-20

OLD Play
The hills of glory very steep and very high
and few there be, who go up to the summit there
Of Even gigantic talent must toll year after yea
to get high enough on those hills for small
prospect of prosperity. Only genius takes wings
and flies to the top at a single effort Genius, III
deed, sometimes attains to such height that the
worlds applause does not reach him till consider
able time after death. Such may be the fate o
the now sapient editor of the "Latourche Union :
but whatever he may suffer- however neglected he
may die, and however Indifferent he may be te
whatever fortune, we do assure him that his article
headed, "7ze Picture and the Epigraph at Me
Head Of the Exponent" has made his name I'M
mortal and that, in generations to come, it will
"madly .ostle" the names Of Johnson, Goldsmith
Newton, and Locke from their spheres.
This single production, though he may never
write another will place his name beside those
write more, eve see it in his eye with fine frenzy
rolling" and we're doubly insured of it, by the
wildness of his manner, as he strides through the
dingy rooms of his sanctum, invoking the Gods
for swords of power" to fire his brain "incrust-
ed Nth mud." But kind reader we will detain YOU
no longer from the desert Read it. Mark its
power its felicity of imagery, its aptness of phra-
seology, its versatility of stve its Sampsonic burst
ing off of poetical shackles, and discarda of pro-
sodical mechanism so Indicative of original genius
and above all, its "God and our Native Land"
being taken from "Lord Byron's poem called
Marco Bozzaris" Don't it laugh your dignity
into shoe-strngs9
But let the Union speak for itself:
THE PICTURE AND THE EPTGRAPH THE HEAD OF THE Ex-
PoNENTDear, logical courteous Exponent how do ad-
mire its good TASTE to be especially in designs, aego
res and illusions Now here is sample of its good taste
at the head of its columns the heart stirring motto
"God and our native land %
in thepurest Ehai being taken from Lord yrons poem
called Marco Bozzaris all this to prove the Exponens
deadly hatredto all that foreign Lower down. we see
picture of twolegged ANIMAL intended doubt to
represent North American Savage holding tomahawk
in his right hand and pointing with his left the Byronic
motto above him. Underneath the words said have
been by Father of his Country during the Reyo
lutionary War: Put but Americans guard to-
night.'
Now, all this is highly suggestive and appropriate no
doubt but would like to know how the North American
savage aforesaid ever acquired knowledge of Byron's
Poems and, moreover, why he did translate the British
Poets in his native languaget would much more
Aericdn in Choctaw Cherokee than in plain E11ish
We should also like to know whether the Aneerican
Savage above mentioned constitutes true specimen of the
americans whom alone General Washington would have
put guard.
Come, Mr.. Exponent, eTpound that.
Cucultus non tacit monachum-and we might
add-nor the goose-qui that makes the editor
The ignorant stupidity of attributing to Lord
Byron the authorship of Marco Bozzaris," written
BY F1rz GREEN HALLEcK, the sweetest and most
truthful of Native American poets, only finds a
parallel in the maudled brain of the Hnglishman
who published the fact that maine is flourish
ng city at the mouth of the Pennsylvania, where
empties into Cape Cod and the iron works of
Lowell lie in happy juxtaposition to the extensive
cotton swamps of Pittsburg and the grain-pro-
lucng uplands of Florida"
How disgusting the ignorance of the aspiring
genius. We vote to have him cribbed in iron
'ars, Or hanged as Cyclops, rebelling against the
,eace and honor of our literature. As we now
lave some good English schools in our city, we
hink it would be well for this "Mad Genius" to
cave off breaking Johnsonian sentences to pieces
md there learn few "smples indebted" of our
language and literature. If he cannot do this,
We hope he will secure the services of some school
Joy to correct his proofsheets
MoRAL-Chdren that are not accustomed to,
md will still persist in handling edged tools, never
all to cut their fingers.