Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-09-03
THE BYRON scandal.

Harriet Beecher Stowe has written
an article for a Boston magazine, alleg.
ing that the reason of the separation Of
Lord and Lady Byron was, that the
latter detected her husband in an inces.
tuous intercourse with his half sister.
After this discovery she refused longer
to live With him. She gives Lady Byron
as her authority, who, she says, made
the revelation to her upon what she then
supposed to be her death bed. Mrs.
Stowe has become the greatest slandcrer
of the age. Not content to slander and
vilify both the living and dead of the
South, she has invaded the sanctity
British nobility's tomb, and poisoned
the fair fame of her own sex. This
wicked deed has called down the anathe-
mas of the press
The Philadelphir Press edited by J. W.
Forney says "a more painful narrative
we never reed-doubly painful, because IL
is evident that it is malignant and false to a
degree.
Mrs. S owe has exhibited much want of
Judgement in this Illuminating Lady Byron's
posthumous attacks upon the dad. The
publ cation of the Guicoioli volume did not
justify her, for that contains no statement
that had not been before the public for
years. 81
No pecuuiary temtation should have Undue
ed Mrs. S owe to publish a grave accusa
tion against one of her own sex -,ven It
she believed H. true"
The New York Mail says: 1.-THE pre-
sumptions are all against the story which is
hf fuiI 10 81
itself is so atrocious and repellant TO com
mon sense and common sentiment that we
are astonished to ind so logical and able a
woman as Mrs. Stowe giving it the support
OF her great nsme."
The New York Herald says: Bonner him
self, with al. his experience in advertising
has beon distanced by the publishers of a
Boston trancendentalist mag >
In telling her strange story Mrs. Stowe be
trays the usual inacurscy as to dates, which
prOverbially characteriz works Of fiction
by women writers.
Mr.. Stowe ekes out her sensational maga-
z'ne article by quotations and misquota-
tiOus from Byrons Incompatible verse,
Why does not Mrs. s owe produce some
authorization to publish the particulars |
with cOrIobortory proc The frightful |
charges rest solely Ou Lady Byron's asser- |
tion a lame excuse is made |
by Mrs. Stowe for divulgiug the secrets
conhied to her by Lady Byron. She |
would fain prevent the revival of an iuter- |
est in Lord Byron and his poems through |
the fundamentally Of the recently publish.
ed Memoirs 10y tho Countess Gu'ccioli, and |
refute what she calls the ISLANDERS of Lady |
Byron in that book.
Mrs. Stowe has succeeded In advurtsing
herself also by this pitiful tif Irt to connect
her name with the names OF Lady Byron,
Countess Guiccioli, aud NINE. de Stael."
The CIneinnatti Comm .rcial SAYS: "Had
man done this thing, or an author less
fortified by moral record, a cry Of wrath
aud disgust would have rung through the
reading world. As il is, few will justify
Mrs Stowe in reviving the discussion of a,
domestic difficulty that too largely occupi-
ed the attention OF the world during the
first quarter OF the century, and which,
settle II as we may in our own minds, eau
neither benefit nor harm those who are be-
yond the reach OF praise or defamation.