Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1869-11-03
From the Ne,rl .A Sm.
Mrs. s:eWe's Mnsisosity.
THE s1ASDER oBrHE DEAD.

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ago. In 1915 he was married to Miss
Milbanke, from whom he separated for
ever about ore year after their mar
riage She died in lSG0-nine years ago.
Their daughter, and only clnld died.
several years earlier. but she left chill
dren, who are still living.
Fortv-tive Years after the death Of
Lord Byron and nine years after the
death Of Lady Byron, Mrs. Stowe, an
American woman, comes forward and
announces that she has an important
and interesting secret to disclose that
the cause Of estrangement and separa-
ton between Lord and Lady Byron was
an adulterous, incestuous intercourse
between Lord Byron and his own sis
ter This fact Mrs. Stowe says was
communicated to her by Lady Byron
1856.
Two questions arise in the mind of
the reader Of this horrible announce
ment first, Is ii true? and second,
Gu bono 9-for What good end is it
made?
There seems to be no good and sufll-
cient reason for believing The statement
of Mrs. Stowe to be true Wewill cred
it her assertion that Lady Byron made
it to her According 10 !-e1 own ac-
count, Lady Byron was very i'll al the
time-so i'll that she was expected 10
die soon If she was 50 i'll, she proba-
bly, was taking medicines. Was she or
was she not under the influence OF Opt
um, or OF some anodyne that affected
her reason? Or it may be that under
the effects Of disease alone her mind
had given way. She had suffered great
mental anguish about her separation
from her husband, and it is not improb
able That she WAS insane on this subject,
even if sane On Ill others
By what evidence was the foul charge
of Lady Byron supported? So far as
we can Judge by Mrs. Stoves article
not by one little. And the public are
asked to believe this terrible accusation
on tn mercst hearsay testimony, which
in q court of justice would be inadmis
sible to prove that an accused person
had stolen penny
1t is not Lord Byron alone whose re-
pntation is affected by this dreadful
story. The fair fame OF his sister-fair
we believe. until now-and who has
been permitted long to rest peacefully
in her grave-that, too, is to be blight
ed and blasted for ever hereafter. by
the stain of an unnatural crime.
1t is horrible that a woman Of Mrs
Stoves standing should bring forward
this most repulsive charge against those
whose lips, being sealed in death, can
never answer it, however innocent they
may have been. And the strong pre-
sumption. from the laws Of human na-
ture-so, strong as to be overcone on
ly by the most irrefragable evidence
is. that they were entirely innocent.
1t is altogether probable that even if
Lady Byron was sane, and if she sus-
pected this incredible crime the suspi-
cion was the offspring Of jealous and
morbid disposition Whatever people
may have thought Of Lady Byron here
toiorc, no ole hereafter can blame hus
band for leaving wife who hated him
bitterly enough to invent this story
about him after he had been dead a
third of century 1t seems, however,
according to Mrs. Stowe, that the sepa-
ration was entirely the work Of Lord
Byron, and that his divine and lovely
wife was very anxious to continue to
live with her adulterous and incestu-
| Gus husband. To one who asked her
how she could love him, she replied,
My dear, there was the angel in him. .
\ pretty place, we should think, &C
cording to her own story, for an angel
to dwell Then, too, Lady Byron al
ways expressed the most undoubting
confidence, after his death, that this
same adulterQps and incestuous fend
had gone straight to heaven!
Lord Byron's sister, we are told. i'll
her last sickness and dying hours look
ed to Lady Byron for consolation and
help. The woman who, under these
circumstances, could deliberately fasten
this vile blot OH her memory many
years after her death, must have been,
ii sane, a moral monster
Whose haue }[Trs Stowe has benefit
ed we are unable to perccisc, uol;;iin-
" not Lady Byron's: for she had her
admirers before and can have few left
now. Not the names OF the innocent
Grand children, who must suffer cruel
torture from this scandal. Not her own,
which was iair bsforc, but will hcreaf-
ter be associated with oHc Of The most
outrageous and vilc.t Of all the prutiont
stories ever invented.
TIE BYRON ScANDAL.--Thc C1,uleg-
,yonmal has the following:
LoNDoN, august 1c-The Times in
an editorial to-day. in which the sepa-
ration Of Lord Byron and lis wife is
detailed, asserts that Mrs. Stoves mar
,ratiYe is entirely without foundation
and base slauder.
The press Of the country universally
condemn Mrs. Stowe, and she stands
this day of all yirtuous women the most
unenviab1y notorious.
AUNT HARR1Er.-The Norfolk Tir-
gtsn calls Mrs Stowe Literary Body
Snatcher. She is likewise troolyt
loil woman. What an amalgam
How MEN CAME TO HAVE Boards
Won Helmont tells us that Adam was
created without a beard, but that after
he had fallen and sinned, because of the
sinful nronensities which he derived