Warren telegraph. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1857-1861, 1857-02-21

whence ucnT0s Adrertaser, referred to on our
next page. i.s,.t t.'.r-- sa a., ! ~ \
THE PLAGIARISM I'M WARREN AND
THE WARREN TELEGRAPH.
lrtr1Irff i4'r ria -------f .frfr a "a. u f
We find ourselves compelled to advertise era-
tuitously "The Rhode Island Telegraph" pa
per utterly unknown TO the people Of this city !;
q paper of which we have ourselves never sccn
but two copies and the editor of which-a Mr..
A. X Cooke-seems to us to be absolutely lack
ing in common sense. To tell the plain trnth,
We think, after reading his leading article, in the
copy of the paper which he sent us last We'd
nesday, that he is the greatest ass we have ever
yet met with in the shape of an editor ''e
His article is published in reply to the charge
which was made on the first page Of last week 3
General Advertiser, that the tale published in
Warren, as original, under thetitle Of " Country
Visitors" and publicly claimed, by the Tee
graph, as original with young lady of that
place. was plagiarizcd from tale entitled
Country Visitors, or the Fourth Of July Ora
ton" which was written by Agnes Leslie for
Glcason's Pictorial and originally published in
that paper for July 9Th, 1854, and which we
also published on the first and fourth pages Of
our last weeks paper, together with the taio
charged rs having been plagiarized---so that cy-
cry reader might haycan opportunity to com
pare them. The offence, If proved, would Of
course justify its exposure; but it never would
have been exposed by us, Qor the simple reason
that we should never have seen either efsthe
tales had not the brother of the authorcss Of
the original tale called ut our office; complained
of the manner in which the fruits of his sisters
mcntel toll had been purloined; put into our
hands the papers containing each Of the tales,
and asked us If we would do her the justice to
expose the transaction. Now our "gallantry"
is Of an entirely different stamp, VIC are happy
to say, from that of the rather bcnightcd indi-
vidual who conducts Tho Warren Telegraph.
His gallantry'-(thc constituent elements Of
which would seem, from his own confession, to
be indiscretion, obtrusivcness and servility)-
leads him seriously to compromise tho reputa-
ton of "onc Of our Warren young ladies'" and
place her in very unenyiable light before the
public. Our "gallantry," on the contrary,
leads US to fright the wrongs" of fair woman,
so far as may be compatible with "strict attcn-
ton to business" Hence, we saw fit to comply
with the reasonable request Of the fair authorcss
of the original tale of /" Country Visitors"-she
being "one of our Providence young ladies'"
and one, moreover, well known and of high re-
spectability. 1.r.atsfi .rt.s,3.,a.,,. f.,-.
We consequently published the two tales on
the first and four h pages Of our last weeks pa
per, with some preparatory remarks, in which
we charged
First That plagiarism had been committed
Second, That it had been committed in the
Warren paper. ro1 ,,,e-.,....r
Third, That it had been committed by lone
Of our Warren young ladies'"
After the two tales had been published in jux-
opposition, the first charge was fully proved, for
the nature of the resemblance between the two,
was such that no person, even Of tho most ordi-
nary capacity, could entertain doubt about it.
There are tho tales. Let them speak for them
selves. 1 ,.
As the date Of the number of Gleason's Picto-
rial in which one of these tales was for the first
time published, settled the priority Of that tale,
the second charge-that the plagiarism was
committed in Warrcn-was also satisfactorily
established. ff u.'t
The third charge, that it was committed by
one Of "our Warren young ladies" rests, of
course, on the declaration in The Warren Tclc-
graph that the tale there published was from
the pen of one of our Warren young ladies and
does her credit.
Now the editor Of The Telegraph does not
seem to understand very clearly what consti-
tutes plagiarism, or the nature of the evidence
requisite to prove that plagiarism has been
committed, and he not only virtually admits the
truth Of all these charges, but something worse
duccd" young lady in Warren to ''writc out
in her own words without hunting up the orig
inal," the tale of Country Visitors" which he
saws "she had read long before;" he admits
that she sent or allowed her manuscript to be
delivered for publication, in paper called "The
Tea Table" without indicating by any sign CT
words on the manuscript that it was an imita-
ton of tale sue had read, or borrowed from
tale sho had read, or selected from any publica-
ton, or in fact that it was anything moro or less
than what it appeared to be, viz an original
composition; he admits that the printers pub
lishcd it as original they certainly had right
to do and were in truth bound to do in the abb
sencc of any directions to the contrary no ad-
mts that she allowed it to pass rs original after
il was published in " The Tea Table" although
lys saws that she made some confessions to "sev-
cral friends" that it was not her own he ad-
mits that after it had been re-publishcd in The
Telegraph as original @ as " from tho pen of
ono Of our Warren young ladies'" QD and sas
"doing her credit" llD she did not cven then
cause il to be stated, ia Tho Telegraph, that the
talc was an imitation, or borrowed one, or pub
lishcd by mistake as original, or anything Of the
sort but that she continued complaccntly to
wear the laurel wreath with which Tho Tcle-
graph Gnnoccntly enough, We doubt not) had
crowned her !!! .Etsi \
OF the truth of some ststcmcnts made by Tho
Telegraph in attenuation Of the Facts above mar
rated, the public, at large have ofrcosirsc no
means of judging These statements tsomesof
which are quito improbabic) .rost entirely on
tho authority of Tho Telegraph editor, and the
Warren people will of course attach whatever
importance they may see At to them. For our
own part We don't believe word Of them; and
IL they be true, they only go TO show that "onc
Of our Warren young ladies" istoo silly to con-
prehcnd the moral turpitude Of committing a
plsSisrism---for that o plagiarism has been COM
mitted, It is impossible to deny. Whether II 10
to be attributed to tho dishonesty, roguery, ig-