The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-08-06
rHE POET MILLER.

state. Ana the newspapers generally
of the Pacific slope, and many in the
Eastern States, are treating their read
erS to fulSome notices of the biOgra-
ply, eccentricities and achievements
of this new-t1edged Byron. 1t is true
that Oregon has given this man his
start in the world. he being substan-
TALLY a son of Lane county. and hav-
ing commenced business in Oregon as
an attorney. held office in Grant
tv. and given his first poetical efforts
to the press of Oregon. But the char
acter of the man, us shown by his con
duct in this State. and made known
by the press of this city. is such as
should secure his speedy expulsion
from the society of honorable me
and women wherever he may go: at
least until he shall retrace his iruant
steps to Oregon, and here 10 justice to
the wife and children he has 81 cruelty
and cowardly deserted. Miller left
this State something over a year ago.
and the Herald says he took with him
''about $4,000 in gold. leaving behind
him his divorced wife and babes,
whom We're found atterward i'll this
city almost destitute, struggling
bravely against poverty-whO several
gentlemen of Oregon provided for in
their need, is the natural husband and
father should have done" Thisis the
way he started out to '.eStabli>h his
name among the princelv few to use
his own language i'll his farewell TO
his wife.
California claims this humbug pre-
tender poet. and in the Raine OF all
that is good, let that State have the
doubtful honor. Miller may be a poet,
or he may not he. but he il not a man.
He is a disgrace to true manhood. In
stead of chanting his praise and
sounding his fame. let the press of
Oregon, and the editorial fraternity
everywhere, unite to>hOw this literary
sham in his true cnlors.
From all that we can learn. the wife
of Miller, now residing in this city,
has poetic talent of the highest
ability. Her reply to the Parthian
mi>sive OF Miller is a production of
very great merit. She is not only a
poet. but in every station. and i'll all
the duties of wife and mother. she has
shown herself to be a true and noble
woman. For her, and her poems
when she may see proper to publish
them, let the press reserve its com
mendatiOn and best assistance, 50 that
virtue, fidelity and honor may be
v~indicated and rewarded by the men
who can most faithfully Subserve the
right and punish h wrons.-[Port-
land (OregOn) Bulletin.
1t was u fortune t o have some per-
sonal acquaintance with the subject Of
the above bitter attack in the DAYS
when he was cOmOaIive mountaineer
fighting Indians on the California
frontier; and with the accomplished
''Minnie Myrtle" referred to in the
same article. whose literary cuntribu-
tons to the old San Francisco Golden
Age, Idaho World, and other journals,
made her name familiar to Pacific
Coast readers. That Judge Miller was
afterwards unhappy in his domestic
relations is true; but the editor of the
Portland Bulletin has evidently al
lowed his personal p~rejudices against
Miller to color his statements and in
vecIive. His antipathieS to the ma
impair his Judgment in forming an
estimate of Miller's ability As a poet.
being in direct conflict with the ahle>t
critics of Great Britain, by whom he
is universally Acknowledged a. a poet
of the highest order. a MAJ whom
Rositti prOnounces the second poet
of A merica'-whO i eulogi>tically en-
dOr>ed by Frou1e and Swinburne.
Jean IngeLow and William Morris. rs
the Byron of America" is not to be
sneered down As a 'humhug pretender
poet His domestic troubles have
nothing to do with his poetical merits.
We doubt much the typographical
story of the Bulletin As TO the pecu
MARY circumstances Of n of the par
ties at the Time he left to become the
correspondent in Europe of the
San Francisco Bulletin. If his house
hold was diSrordantit WAS a misfortune
which seems to follow poetical geniU>
in all ages and countries-which he
in common with Shakespeare.
Milton, Byron, Burns and Shelly, aud
we have seen i'll our own gene
in the persons of a Bulwer anU
a Dickens. The peaceful delights oi
the hearth seldom gladden. the heart OF
the poet: and it is perhaps not won
that two poeti"al natures, how
ever estimable i'll character, ShoulG |