The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1869-09-29
J. SOUTH CAROLINA, sEPTEMBsR ao.ifss

for : swvrnap 10 poeses, We are fore
ed to the conclusion that she eth.
er deliberately ifalsified forswas
cheated into believing as real what
was onlyia monstrous ballucina.
tion of the brain. Byron's omen
immortality has long been acknow.
lodged, even BY the most Ienthusi-
astic admirers sof his genius, but
we contend. that there is noihine
in bis recorded words 90 actions
which will justify such allegations
as these. Reckless, defiant sinner
he may have been, but that he ev.
er stepped himself In such beastly
criminality as is here set forth, we
do not belive. Nor If he did, do
we imagine for q moment that a
woman Of Lady Byron,s purity
and principle would have consent.
ed, from any motive however
high and noble, to have not only
cloaked his infamy with her own
unspotted garnents, but accepted
him as her husband and the father
of her child" 3. a. Z d
The Republican then refers to
an article. from Blackwood, on the
other side of the question, and thus
contiuuess .1r.,g,rs ~ ~ ..
@1'he article from Blaclwood
will be found exceedingly interes.
ting, in connection with Mrs.
Stoves statement, and is q fair
companion-piece to It. To onr
mind it utterly disproves Lady BY.
ron's, story as told to Mrs. Stowe,
but it shows, moreover, that Mrs.
Stowe was not the first who had
beard of it. As yet there is an ut
ter absence of fact or circumstance
to sustain the horrible charge, and
the verdict Of the world, upon the
case as It stands now, will be that
it rests wholly upon. the unsuppor-
ted assertion of o woman who was
forced to give some. extraordinary
explanation of h er unforgiving
conduct towards her husband.n
The Couricr-J Journal pursues the
theme with indignation and pours
the seven vials Of wrath upon the
perpetrator of this scandal and the
publisher of it. It says: .,.
:" A mystery has hung over the
subject for halt a century, and
Mrs. Stowe processes to reveal II.
The professed revelation is most
revolving. Z he illustrious poet,
we are asked to believe, was guilty
of habitual and long continued in
cest with his sister, and had a child
by her, who died in Lady Byron's
arms years atterward when Byron
was wanderer in selfexile from
his country. But this, even If
true, is not, as it purports to be,
an explanation of the separation of
Lord and Lady Byron. Accord
ing to the statement, Lady Byron
was anxious to the last to live with
her husband, and it was he who
rudely rent the conjugal ties asun-
der, Now il she knew him to be
guilty ofthe horrible crime Of in
cest, it was reason enough why she
should abandon him.. but surely
no reason at all why he should
abandon her, and seek to make her
his enemy, especially If, as is rep
resented, he was terribly anxious
for the concealment of his guilt,
and she was the only person who
had the power to reveal it. We
DO not believe that, if she had
known him to be living in the
commission of incestuous acts, she
would have been so unwomanly as
TO remain with him for years, as
she is said to have done, or even
for q single day. The woman who
Lives with an incestuous husband
seems not many degrees removed
from incest. The very thought is
revoltiDg to human nature.
Mrs Stowe says, that, when
she was in Europe she made the &C.
quaintance Of Lady Byron, and,
that the latter confded 10 her the
whole story Of the relations be
tween herself and Lord Byron with
permission to publish it at some
after period if eyents should rem