North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1865-08-09
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A LETTER.
To THE EDITOR OF THE WYOMING REpUB-

To THE EDITOR OF THE WYOMING REpUB-
LICAE.
Although we are suspicious of the Lena
Lindon mentioned in your paper of Aug 81,
being but mere myth Of your rage, crafty,
editorial brain, the criticism upon her con-
trIbutions has evoked wish to enter, even
unb'dden, and ut imminent peril, into your
sdncfun1 True there are recorded many in
stances of authors being annihilated BY the
frown of offended editors; but we are fear
less, apd care but littls for the anger of one
editor. Your criticisms upon Lena's poem,
does not prove you to be of that class Of ed
itors whom Fanny Fern justly styles, "Bill-
ions wretches, who abuse you because you
can write better than they )" but it does
prove you to have little of the gentlsmanly
spirit that refrains from wourding a young
writer's heart, needlessly and further, that
you might study an English Grammar ad-
vantag usly hefore again praticng the part
of modern Longinus, as your grammatical
construction differs ss entirely from our
standard critics. as "Lena's orthography diff
fers radically ,oith Webster's." Other con-
tributors, who have sent you articles not of
original spelling. but new in other respects,
have seen their productions appear, revised
with q word or two, to render il ludicrous,
and the spelling so novel as to cause them to
mentally question whether you had new
dictionary Of so recent date that only ed
TORS possessed O copy, and their "spelling"
was conformed to it, or you had no proof
reading done in your Office, in order to save
printing materials. This exonerates you
from the first supposition; and we will take
it upon ourselves to clear you from the
charge ofaccepting anything new, that has
not been proved to be good and orthodox, by
having met universal appreciation in it's
rounds in various exchanges and so cd
and venerable it will be certain of respect and
credence. Yet, perhaps few contributed
poems and novelettes, original but in or
biography, might take surprisingly with the
wonder loving public Of this age, and double
the circulation Of your paper: uerbum sopi-
ent,.
We do, certainly censnre Lena for thrust.
ing unworthy rhy mes. and uncouth spelling
upon your notice, when we take in to consid-
eratiou your mighty lsbors for the good of
the community, that consume so much of
your valuable time and besides we have
heal it hinted that you are of that genus
who would rather have manuscripts sent
that were rejec;able from your columns, for
their authors having employed word or
phraz" some precedent English writer had
brought in use, and salatle for those of some
distent jnu rnals.
We agree with yno that no young writer
should be encouraged hv' seeing her produc-
ductiors in the Republican, for two reasons,
first, il might hazard the editcr's hard earned
reputation of possessing an unusual amount
Of literary tastes and editorial ability, dis
PLAYED bv the increasing worthlessness of
the paper secondly, no authors should ven.
iure to offer their articles, until they are
well known in the literary world, unless they
are very rich in money lin which case it will
be policv to print their productions, most
editors think. Hoping you may soon find
time TO prepare n series o. articles for the
benefit of young writers, we will subscribe
our sentiment-''Suun. cuique"
LEAH HALE.