Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-12-26
From the IAisville, Ky } Gazette.
BYRONM LOVE OF LIBERTY.

An English author of liberal principles, has
written an eloquent essay on byron ahc
Goethe" and in spirit that is thoughtful anc
highly audable. Poor Lord Byron, whom
every puny poeaster and LIIllpulan Wiling
now thinks himselfenitIed TO rail against, u
spoken Of in terms that do credit to the writer
head and heart. We subjoin a passage, wllf
the generous tone Of which Ne have been mucl
struck
he false to human sympAhy. Solitary anC
unfortunate from his infancy, cruelty wounded
in his first love, and still more cruelty III MS
marriage; attacked and illuminated in his acts
and intentions, without defence; annoyed by
pecuniary difficulties; forced TO quit his country
home; his child; lriendIess, we have seen II
since his death pursued on the continent, by a
thousand absured tales, and by the old mallg-
nifty Of world that made even his sorrows a
crime, he preserved in the mdst y his ineylta-
BILE reaction, his love for his sister, his Ada, his
pity for misfortune, his fidelity 10 the affection
ofthe years Of his childhood and youth, even
from his old nurse Mary Grv 10 Lord Clare,
He was generous of his money to those to
whom he could be useful, from his literary
friends 10 the wre,ched libelIcr Ashe. lmpelled
by the temper of his mind, by the period hin
which he lived, by the fatality even OF his mis-
sion, towards poetry whose place has new 10
be filled, towards the incomplete tendency we
have sought TO characterize, he by no means
set himself up as a standard; he presaged the
future; he indicated the prescience Of genius,
in his definition hitherto misunderstood, and
yet the best we know of,-"Poetry is the feeling
of former word and future;" he always pre-.
ferred activity for good, TO all his art could do.
Surrounded with slaves and their expressions,
a traveller in countries where remembrance
ever seemed extinct, witness Of the progress of
the Restoration, and Of the triumph Of the prin,
cipes Of the Holy Alliance, he never swervedI
from his courageous opposltIon he publicly
preserved his faith IN The thoughts 0Fthe people,
n the final triumph Of liberty. in the duty of
Ievoting body and soul to hasten it whenever
the occasion should present itself The'passageI
following, the very abstract Of the law of our
present efforts, is from his pen. Coward it isl
low the time to act, and what signifies self, III
single spark that which would be worthy of
he past can be bequeathed PROFESSIONALLY to
he future! Ii is not one man, nor a million
nut the spirit oil liberty which must be spread. |
Fhe waves which dash upon the shore, are,
me by one, broken; but yet the ocean conquers,
nevertheless. 1t erw helms the amanda, it'll
years the rock, and, if the Neptunians are to be
eIieved, it has not only destroyed but made a
world" At Naples, in the Romagna, WHEREBY
r he saw spark of life stirring, he was ready
or excrlion or for combat, could it but break
nto come. His life was Of splendid ruins, lofty
houg,s and great actions! he stigmatsed base
less, hypocracy and injustice, whencesoeverI
hey sprang. Thus lived Byron-unceasing
tossed between presentills and future hopes
often unequal, sometimes sceptcal, but always
even when he seemed to laugh; al
ways loving, even when he cursed