The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-08-04
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of poems and become man of fame
in London. The fact makes us think
no more of Miller, but much less of
the Londoners.
During the time that he was connect.
ed with the Register, he published one
or more serial stories under his own
name and called them original. They
were, however, stolen bodily from
some of the fash publications of that
day. The plagiarism was palpable and
audacious. For particulars, we refer
the curious to the files of the paper
named, of, If we mistake not, the year
1862, in the Librarians office at Salem:
After his marriage. which took place
in the year named, and after he began
towrite poetry, this habit of plagiarism
was not abandoned, if his wife's testi.
mony is worth anything and if we do
not misinterpret the following quota
ton taken from her @Sacrafce Impe.
tro," q reply to Miller's Farewell" on
leaving Oregon:
Sand he through books and bays
Delveth for pretty words
To weave in his languid lays
!: OF women, and streams, and birds"
For this and many other better rea-
sons we don't hesitate to pronounce
the belief that this so-called poet is,
what is termed in the vernacular of
this coast, first-class blk, aud that
besides the other injuries that he has
inflicted upon his unhappy wife, he has
flched from her her literary jewels and
published them as his own.
Up to the date of his marriage Mil
Ter had published no poetry, if indeed
he had written any. But up to that
time and for long time prior thereto,
the people of this State had been
charmed by the verses of Mrs, Miller,
then g Minnie Myrtle Minnie Myrtle's
poetry left off where Miller's begun.
Those who take the trouble to COM.
pare Miller's Joaquin ct al, with these
verses of Mrs. Miller, published more
than ten years ago, viii readily detect
her poetic genius upon the best pages
of the book. In some of them they
viii recognize the woman, as for in
stance In the Sierra Nevadas, which
makes them look
'As though Diana's maid last night,
Had in the liquid, soft moonlight,
Washed cut her Mistress garments
bright, 70 .sfless7s-ai -
And on yon bent and swaying line 20.
Hung all her linen out to dry" -
It is much more likely that the
smile of line hung with linen and
which employs the idea of washing
garments in liquid moonlight, should
occur to woman of strong poetic
imagination, the routine of whose life
was the wash-tub and the kitchen,
than to languid and dyspeptic man.
the quotation has the credit of being
the best in the book.
The lines .-er1a54 :.
- HWhat was my troth to him?
4 stepping-stone at BEST"
m Mrs. Miller's reply to Miller's " Fare
vel, seems to be evidence against
him upon the charge of appropriating
his wife's literary productions The
italics are used by u.s. esh
With the largest charity that we are
capable of exercising on this occasion,
We must say efthis new aspirant for lit
erary honors, that he is what no poet
ever was-a money-getter, who on
general resources and by slow ac-
cumulations acquired competence.
He is what no poet even can be--de-
void of affection or concern for his
own offspring. Notwithstanding the
hard efforts of their mother, his babes
were rescued from want and taken
from miserable attic in Portland by
private charity a few months after
MilIer's departure from the State
The preservation of its offspring is an
instinct that even the brute possesses.
The man who deserts his offspring is
a little lower than the brute. Poets
are only little lower than the angels.
No such base metal as this Charles
Heiner Miller ever gave out the true
poetic ring. He is simply gifted with
rare impudence, He is only a COM
pound of brass and bad grammar. IF
his be fame, then what is fame worth ?
a BosToS dispatch of last Monday