Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1869-09-01
mrs. Hnfriii Hcchrr stores
f0sf Sensational scandal.


fnsf Sensational scandal
We are much pleased that this
literary harlol is receiving her just
deserts at the hands Of the public.
Having IN her "uncle Tom Cabin
pcipe,ratsd a wholesale slandcr upon
the hand Of her brlh, she finds but
liltle difficulty in libeling the dead,
and her "loreigu relations with whom
she snobbcd while in Europe, while
spending the IN gotten gains realized
by the sale of Uncle Tom. The New
York Day Book says
nIl is crcditablc to the American
press that II has, almost without an
exception, condemned the dirty scan
dial about Lord Byron and his sister,
which the Atlantic Monthly Published
from the pen of Harriet Beccher
Stowe. Not only the infamous story
utterly discredited, but its publicity,
from the pen of u woman, cvinces q
natural dirtiness of mind, ut once dis.
graceful and shocking, which has dis
gusted every virtuous man and woman
in America. Even If the horrid tale
was true, it is quite as disgracciul TO
Lady Byron as to the poet; for she,
u cording to the nasty account, con-
tinucd TO live with Byron, and to love
him, and only left him because he
literally drove her away, after she
was fully aware of his inccsluous con.
ncclon with his sister Even while
on her way home she wrote him 4
letter calling him her "Dcar Duck. "
The truth is, that in this whole ac-
count the language which is attributed
to Lady Byron is so decidedly i'm
pressed with tn, car-marks OF Mrs
Harriet Becchcr Stowe that there is
no installing it, All such phrases as
.thcre was an angel in him, never
came from the lips of Lady Byron. 1t
is not her style. She was rs cold, as
hard, and unimaginative as marble.
Then how are VIC 10 believe that Lady
Byron told Mrs. Stowe that Byron
literally drove her away, when we
positively know, from her Lhdysbip's
own letters. that such was not the
case And how are we to believe
that Ladv Byron told Mrs. Stowe that
she lived with Lord Byron two years,
when all know that she lived with
him but one ycarY There are other
faschoods of history in Mrs. Stoves
account equally glaring, anG which we
find il much easier 10 credit 10 the
very imaginative aUthoress of "Unclo
Toms Cabin" than to Lady Byron.
Lady Byron may have been demcntcd
in her last years (she rode ont with
Fred. Douglass when he was in Eng
land but the document produced by
Mrs. Stowe Is so entirely characters
tic, both in its spirit and its language,
that our own Judgment is inclined to
acquit Lady Byron Of any considera-
bic share in its filthy contents. The
woman who can write and publish
such indecent and immoral disclosures
is not to be considered as beyond the
temptation Of inlschood We know
that she has written a book before,
which is false, implacahlc, aud vicious
in every motive and aim. And the
motive she gives for this filthy article
is precisely in keeping with the aim
of Uncle Toms Cabin" which was
to bcsmcar the character onthc South.
ern people in order to make slavery
odi0us." Even so her object in as
sailing the character Of Byron is con
fcsscd to be to destroy the influence
Of his poetry. But poor woman, her
sianeGS IineS iigqPn qSAfjt2gs Rn0diss dss5 ast Tie IL
works Of Byron to be re read by
thousands, TO be eagerly sought for By
other thousands who have never read
them before. And tho result will be a
removed and greatly extended admi.
ration for the wonderful genius of
Byron, and n universal contempt for
her, asa calumniator, if not woman
Of naturally coarse and impure imagi-
nation. Nodonbt she received large
sum for writing her scandalous article I;
but if she had any fair fame, she has
sold il all to the atlantic Monfhly.
Whether tho publishers of that maya
zinc have mado anything by the
operation will depend upon the char
actcr Of their readers