The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1866-03-24

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sons why W. should never again
permit \ u enter Huulhefn circles.
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ihe blun, blundering demagoaism oi
The New Yofh TriIm,, md ofher
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tain poison If Northern literature f.
who h lhe south possesses the mad.
stone 10 cStfaet ils Jh, when once Il
has taken hold9 Northern literature
has done more 10 overthrow our In.
hliuiions aud mbjugaic the SOUTH
than all The armies the Yankees have
yet put Into the field ! hoped that
At least one good result Of The war
was 30 bury Northern literature so
deep that Il could never be rcsur.
rccicd In the South hence, my sur.
prise to read the SrAR's favorable
notice Of the Journal. | may here.
after devote chapter TO the subject
Of Northern literature. For this
time, Il Is sufficient TO say that, MS the
Homo journal dabblcd In muddy
politics during and even since the
war, We are unwilling to receive Il as
"purcly literary paper" And, II
Il were altogether literary, | think |
could more freely tolerate the politi-
cal sentiments il has gone out of its
literary way to advocate, than il.
snivelling, "down East" prizc-the-
sun-up sort OF literature, with the
apish coxcomb N. p. Willis as auc-
tionecr of its literary trumpery. In
his prospectus of the "high-toned
and brilliant literary and artistic
JOURNAL" he says: ave take this op-
portunity of thanking our many
Southern subscribers for a return Of
their patronage" 1t will require
better evidence than / can find in his
prospectus to convince me that this
statement is not a libel on the good
sense and proper spirit of the re-
ported many Southern subscribers p
| take the statement as n Yankee
trick" Of electioneering-whichp plain
ly shows the character of the Yankee
man. | am ignorant Of the fact, Il
the Home Journal was ever rery pop
ular in the South-there were other
Northern periodicals, the Me,c York
Ledger and others, which certainly
enjoyed a larger circulation here; |
am not ashamed Of the bad taste, or
the want Of literary and artistic taste
that may be involved in the confes-
sion that | have never been one Of
It's patrons; and if it has now many
patrons in the South, / confess my
utter ignorance Of the fact, as | dc
not know Of one instance Of O
return Of ! Southern patronage ia
the Home Journal. N. p. Will.
cvinces a persistency characteristic
and worthy of his Yankee nature in
his efforts to engineer his journal
into the Southern purse, but ! think
he should be truthful. ] don't know
either, that literary pickpocke'
should be held more amenable to th,
law Of veracity than his less learned
prototypes are expected to be.
RuTu REBEL.