New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-11-22
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trhe shades of Grent Men 50
Inevitably rise before the minds eye Of the para
esnfst when be leaves the track Of current topics
and essays to wander Id the walks Of mere literature,
OF to sketch down TIE pictures suggested Of fancy.
II he would discourse 81 literature certain despair
oforignalty viii possess him Is, crowding upon his
recollection come the trte criticisms Of many a3ler
than himself, whose opinions are household words
With the many, and from which he may neg oiner5
save they seek notofiety BY affecting eccentncy IN
stGdiously differing with ac9epted conclusions eol'
ellsons whose justice has commended them e. text
books Of opinion in such particular matters literary
We baliava that men whose taste and Judgment have
bben attesed by their own works, should be allowed
"a dictate opinions for the multitude on mooted and
strastlv obscars literary questions, We believe this
ss ia believe that raachinst is better judge Of ma
ebiperg than another who does not possess his knowl
s8oa an the subject We believe that the srnallfry
EHeyasearwhose envtous impotence thirst for motto
istv induces him to befoul with the slime Of his abuse
eFeat nan's fame, shonld receive the contempt he
deserves Like the snail in the fable, may cover the
statue of the master artist with his enYious dirt
but its real excellence Is not impaired, though it may
some favor in the eyes of the superficial observer
Believing this-holding this opinion sadly mortify.
Ing to what we may boast as independence of
thought and possibly to be esteemed so heretca by
many, we cannot attempt to remark upon the works
Of great authors unless the judgments of great
critics, themselves authors by such writing, rise be-
fore us and warn us Of the dilemma in which we
would place ourseIf, and which is this: That we
must either repeat plagiarze the ideas they have
given u.s. or like the one who Ventured to announce
that Shakespeare was sadly oyerrated," we must
claim attention On the merits Of The absurdtes that
desire to differ with them induces MS to proclaim as
or royal opinion We would not take away the right
of freedom Of thought from any one, but we would
circnmseribe The freedom Of speech through the PEN
BY the samel rules which governs the use Of the
tongue id social intercourse; no tongue has right
to utter things which do injury to another PERSONS
proper sentiments any more than one has right to
do material injury with bis hands. No pen has a
right to violate the gentiIity Of journalism by de-
nouncing that which is generally, and which the
writer's conscience must tell him is justly, accepted
by the body Of the community.
AS to current literature emanating from pens on
whose work the the seal Of approval has not vet been
set by an overwhelming verdict Of popular opinion,
expressed in the endorsement Of men Of competent
inteleot we deny that critic, he who by chance
occupies such position, is dealing justly or consci
entiously when he picks out and studously magnfes
that which is evil utterly dsfegarding the claims Of
the good to like prominent setting forth We deny
that it is the critics province to seek ont evil rather
than good In an authors work, providing there is
good enough to save it from condemnation as q
whole The prediction for this course is atthe root
Of unetenths Of the injustice done contemporary an-
thors and its indulgence should undergo an earnest
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among our mails the lucubrations Of some conceted
noodle or malignant scribbler aimed at mark as far
above him as the pyramids of Cheops are above the
dunghills at their base, and Of course we are natu
rally indignant and break out in new place, as
above.
THE Varieties Theater.
We give below the following rich paragraph clip
ped from a letter addressed New York paper by
Anew Orleans correspondent, one Of those assassns
in the mask and domino disguise Of nom dc plume,
whose cowardy vocation iss to murder facts and re
putaons with stabs of their trenchant pens secure
in their incognito from oil responsibility. Thestate-
ment involves not only mifth.provoking libel upon
the gentlemen who act as Manager Placides endors-
ers but an engs Misrepresentation of the terms and
circumstances under which he has taken the theater.
But to The extract, which we find transferred from
the original paper in which it appeared, to the re.
spectability conferred BY publication in the New
York Sunday Times:
IF Mr.. phOs Placide ID not eminently successful
the coming season, it will be his own fault. He is
paid SALARY, am told, and receives, after certain
sum, fraction Of the receipts or proceeds 81 the
nightly performances The expenses are horne, and
the means Of starting the Varieties provided by up
wards of nihety opuent r0ues aud they are deter
mined to have everything connected with the opera,
drama, and ballet that can be bought and the
a iutiT will ha tyith
out stintH
Edward Everett,
Patriot and orator. by common consent 81 the conn.
try has sold himself to the cause Of puiIsry for the
benefit Of Bonner, Of The New York Ledger, in the
first place. and the Mount Vernon fund in the second
We are sorry that Everett has done this for we do
not like to see sacred cause mixed up with what
partakes so strongly Of eap-trap charlatanisn. he
is to write a series Of articles extending over a
twelvemonth, for the Ledger, as consideration for
which It's proprietor is to pay to the Mount Yer.
non fund the sum Of ten thousand dolars, and
atraightway that enterprisng journalist heralds the
circumstance with all the flourish Of trumpets and
show bills, with which lie would new story by the
aVofte sensationist of his columns Sylvanua Cobb
Cobb z without the corn of intellect which would
render him Of value as writers if he ever possessed
any Of this sort Of he long since sheled ii off al
the rate of about grain into each of the volumn
ous novelties that he has been pouring out at the
rate Of about one week for the last ten years
We are sorry that Mr.. Everett has done this, for
he will the only loser in the matter Of reputation;
tie Mount Vernon Fund will gain ten thousand dol.
lars and Bonner the great Barnum Of literature win
gain one hundred thousand at least in the increased
demand for bis paper. Mr. Everett might have
addedten thousand dollars to the fund in more
reputable way. For instance he might have deigned
to cross Mason and Dxous line with the lecture ana
in the cause which have contributed 50 much to his
fame-wheh have made two.thirds Of his greatness
But IL confuing himself to the Northern States he
showed his wisdom perhaps. He relied on the south
TO give spontaneously to the cause, while the North
received guild pc qno for its beneYolence in the
shape of the lecture, worth the money to each one
who disbnrsed for ticket Of admission.
JoHsroN & TuRRER's HATs-Casscaly beautiful
in shape and style exquisite dnis and altogether eaptiva
ting are he craua coverings which the men Of enterprise
Johnston Turner sell under the Charles Hotel to an III,
hntless badly haed who The hat milking art keen
with the other great Of the age and could any b
teaarreced from the bae,hsaded times Of old TO rejoice
sight Of Johnston Turner's hat handsomely by handsome
worm willingly might They believe new or improve,
of beings pgoped the garden that the hat
heohef addition to the human form divine 10 aden