Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-11-13

T1ON."
fheoAore Tl1ton - N Advocate
Ter s'An8le.Amsrfcaa with A.
glosAfflcoa Dlool''-mls OD10e
len of "Whas Answer"
Frsm the Revelation.
I'VE take the liberty Of printing In the
Revelation the following private letter 70
one Of itsysditers j
Nsw YoaE, Nov. !, l66e.-My DsAn
Mas. SrAHros IL have just been reading
Ia the Revolution your nesics Of Anna
Dickinssn's book. By way Of Amiabls pro-
test, let me cay (theugh net for publisss'sn)
that yeu Dc her % slender . justice - TO
amount 70 positive wrong.
A great moral refeso slicits many books
and speeches. tho best Of which are ssi.
dem fsulslses 70 artistic structure Or literary
aaish. "Unsls Tsa's Csbis," judged - .
mere work Of ast eseoe - much cut Of
shape % stuffed Ohristoas stocking il
chimney mock psvssthslss', among I'll the
ncsioss that have helped the wesld, that I'm.
prsmsditated and sxts0psranssus book
stands second emily - The ''Pilgsim's Prov
grsss." Wendell Phillips Political speech.
81, judged - mere literary essays. abound
ia almest % much bed grammar % bic 3D.
issrisls; nevertheless. a0sng oil the states
men Of his couatry aud time, be 10 The con.
spisusus ehisf,-ths leader eflsadsss, the
bright, particular star Of American psli.
ties.
There are many precious public ut,erancss
on which enc never thinks Of rendering Q
- rdimA ~ 1tA~e~o.
bsdy ever stop 70 esk whether or not the
Deslaratien 81 Independence 10 10 good EGG
lishf Does any bsly mssrn ever the Mag
No Charta because il 10 In bad Latin Whss
the Atlantic cable reports - the Tribune
what Jshn Bright has been saying, does 10
take that trouble merely because be says
il we'll Did not our whole natieu rseog-
nizs that Abrahao Lincole's heosspus
words at 0sttysbufg we're greater thas Ed.
ward Everetts gildsd esasiea. Ones whom
Father Taylsr. in preaching 10 bic aud;sacs
Of ssamsn. found himself estangled sudden
y IN th,skst Of sseumulassd clauses, be
extrisated himself By sxoiaiming: II have
lost track Of the neminativs 70 ny verb,
but, ~ brethren. rae think knew-I IN
bound fer the kingdom Of hsavsni" That
was erators superior y Thetorici Il wss
getting The vine Of slsquenes By crushing
The grapes II style.
New. when speech, o. sermon, o. book
happens TO b % gssd that one cares moth.
ING fse the style IN which it 10 expressed.
the substance 10 thereby proven 10 b Of Pc
culiar and extraordinary merit.
This 10 just ny feeling absut Miss Dick.
inssn's stery. On taking up the volume.
and before knowing o. suspsctisg IT. drift. l
rsbslled against the opening chapters be-
cause thought them swkward-as. Indeed,
they are. But - soon a. discovered The
suthsr's object il writine,-an object -
kQnsx pscted, and % much nebiss tran any
IRE literary effect, Immediately qusnch-
IN disposition 70 criticize. Her heroic
|mpt to join the Anglo>Saxsn and TIE
African blood in . true and lawful
iags, and 70 make fashionable society
BY - . censsntipg and applauding
20, Was purpose % much mere peril
humane, and Christian than WAS ever
taken by any other American author,
said to myself forgetting oil literary
b or dsfsets). "This 10 the bravsst
in American literature" Tell me
lat New England or Knickerbocksr book
aker has ever mere nobly and courageous
de6sd American opinion Not one. And
this illustrions fact lies the chief and
rec Gus value Of this Quaker girls book.
But the Revolution takes exceptions, net
much TO Mise Dickinson's style ~ 70 her
acme. confess that this criticism, Gem
ne from yeur pen. surprises me greatly. -
You intimate that she ought to have turned
asr book On the pivot Of woman's rights.
vBut the story, % il stands, 10 . signal cen
tribution 70 woman's rights. II seeks to lift
the meet despised race among eur country
women 70 Just level with the proudsst. n
lts object had been merely to give 70 Miss
rcildouns . ballot, it pages would have
orne less emphatic testimony 70 woman's
ghss than ~ giving to such . bride %
rancssca such bridegroom - Surrey.
Then, teo. % this 10 white mans gev-
nmsnt, owe this book awbits mans
saks for indicating . white mans right
marry whomsssvsr he plsasss, provided
lady herself consents. Its impossible
white msn-particularly for such -
. mantling and Tammany pride in their
itsness-to Be ever considered truly
psrior race 30 long - they are denied
; sacred right Of protecting their own
va.e affections BY the solemn sanctions
public law. More tyrannsus than the
ct radical republican rule 10 the public
timsnt in the south which forbids an
mont white democrat from openly mar
ING the lady Of his heart. What . do.
tic boon this beck seeks t. confer on
Orsds and thousands Of natures noble.
}" who we're formerly the owners Of
srried brides, and who are new provi
rith golden opportunity to we'd their
wives.
II can pardon the Rsvolutien's neg.
70 point out this enc peculiar mission
lies Dickinson's beck, because my dear
Stanten, yeur sympatiss with the
pcratic party are Of 80 recent an origin
\pu could hardly be expected TO apprs-
. moment, oil the obligations Of
. which that party ought to feel. -
en-, toward the emily beck il our
which strictly points out to them
70 ct the same time virtuous and
re yeu will accept this carpine
% the best Of bumor, because il
frea
Pur friend aud biographsr,
TsseDsss TiLToH.
- Desroshed anA Twice Jils.
- DaA Family fer Keeping
1W1o8O 80W080U0OnUO.
Frsn the Peoria Transcript. 9th.
sal ysaTs sgss young lady in Tsxs-
leunty, was wood BY ysusg man,
fained her consent and the consent Of
felks, bat three days before the
(, she tesk freak int her head
Il 81 and married another man.
log man was heart broken, and
% bic effects and vent % New
~. There he hid bic grief. buried
In busiasss and engaged il spseu-
Was successful and bseaue wealthy.
hgss sister Of the girl that bad Tilted
moved b. 0ympathy, commenced .
cadence with hin 70 eudsavor g
. HE ssrssw. The cesrsspendenes
Interesting. The ysung girl grew
- ysars relied On, rpened int
pauty. The sight Of her photograph
"a In che ysuog mans bosom the
he had supposed crushed forever,
osed . her and vas accepted. Her
sss widowsr, and Vas anxious e.
Tried himself - sosa % his daughter
lt Of the vsv, 90 be urged the match
ID. The means Of the lever now ad
Sd brilliant Wedding. and preparations