Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-23

It is after this fashion that the younger
Dumas writes Of his grandfather and
father:
Soldier and General Of the Republic
my grandfather could stifie a horse be-
tween his legs, and break helmet with
his teeth, snd be defended al alone
BriXOn bridge sgsinst = vanguard Of
twenty men. Rome would have decreed
him the honors of triumph, and would
have made him Consul. Calmer and
more economical France refused 3 college
education 70 his son, snd this son, reared
in the midst of the woods, sir and sky,
impelled by poverty and his OVID genius,
swOOped one day upon Paris, and en-
tered literature as his father entered the
epemy's ranks - i0stling, destroying,
knocking over everything which did not
make Wsy for him. Then begun the Cy-
clopesn labor which has lasted forty
years. Tragedy, drama, history, novels,
travels, comedies, you have thrown ev-
eIvthing into the world OF fiction with
new creations. You have made news
paper, book and stage burst, too narrow
Tor yOUr immense shoulders. You have
supplied France, Europe, America; YOU
have enriched publishers, transiators,
plagiaTists; you have made printers
breathless, fOuDdered cOpyists, and de-
Voured by need Of production you have
not always sufficiently tested the metal
YOU used, and you took and threw into
the furnace, sometimes at hazard, every
thing which came under your hand
The intelligent fire divided them
That which came from you flowed
away bronze; that which came
from others went away smoke
In this way you have hammered $ great
deal Of bad iron but on the other hand
how many OF them who had remained
oDscure have been lighted and warmed
81 your forge, and il the hour of restitu-
ton be struck, what gain for you, were
YOU merely to take back what you have
given and what has been taken from
you. You have become dumas, ST.
for the respectful; "Old Dumas - for tie
insolent, and amid all sorts Of clamors
YOU may sometimes hear the phrase:
Really, his son hiss more talents than he,
How you must have laughed. No. You
were proud, sou were happy, like any
Insignificant father; you asked nothing
better than to bslieVe il, maybe YOU be-
lieved what they said. Dear, ingenious,
and good, great man! who would have
given me your glory a. you gave me
your money when / was young and lazy, I
Il
funity to bow publicly before you, TO do I
you homage ia the face OF the sun and ]
20 embrace you, as love you, in the face I
Of the future Let Others OF my age and I
my worth declare themselves your equal; I
itis their business and / have no more /
reprozch- than to envy them their suppo- 4
sIEion, for /, by merely being your son /
shall be as well known as thee; but pos
sibly, which, let come what may, viii be /
Obliged 20 reckon with you, when IT 4
reads cur names one under the other /
chronologically in the balance sheet of /
this century, must distinctly understand (
have never looked upon you except as
my father, my friend, my master, what
ever may be said to the contrary; that
thanks TO your neighborhOOd, / have had
the good fortune OF neVsr exsggsratinp
myself and of looking upon myself Is a
baby, because / was always Obliged to
compare myself with my redoubtable
father.