The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-19

currency Under these circumstance
of Lady Byron's friends had propos
question to her whether she had nd
sponsibility to society for the truth
she did right to allow these writings
influence over the popular mind, by d
silent consent to what she knew
utter falsehoods. Lady Byron's
life had been passed in the
heroic self-abnegation and self-sacrif
she had now to consider whether one nd
of self-denial was not required of her
leaving this world-namely, to decla
absolute truth, no matter at what expN
her own feelings. For this reason it
desire to recount the whole history to
of another country and entirely ont W
sphere of personal and local feeling W
might be supposed to influence those f.
country and station in life where the H
really happened, in order that she mi Il
helped by such a persons views in MAX i
an opinion as to her own duty. The ind *
had almost the solemnity of a dea
avowal. Lady Byron stated the facts
have been embodied in this article, an
to the writer q paper containing brief
randa of the whole with the dates affixe
She went over. with n clear analys
history of his whole life as she had thouI
out during the lonely musings of her
hood. She dwelt on the ancestral
which gave him n nature of exceptiona
dangerous susceptibility. She went I'd
the mismaDagement of his childhood|
history OF his sshool-days, the inhuen2
the ordinary school course of classical I'd
on such mind ass his. She sketched g.
and clearly the internal life of the youn#
of the time, as she with her purer eyea
looked through it, and showed how ID
which with less susceptible fibre and Cd
strength of nature we're tolerable for his
panions, were deadly to him, unhingin1
nervous system, and intensifying the dal
of ancestral proclivities. Lady Byrot
pressed the feeling too, that the Calvir
theology, as heard in Scotland, had provl
his case, as it often does in certain mini
subtle poison. He never could either 4
heve OF become reconciled TO it, and tha
problems 1t proposes embittered his A
against Christianity. 1.-The worst of it'll
do believe, he would often say with vioIj
when he had been employing all his nd
of reason, wit, and ridicule upon these
iects.
Through all this sorrowful history was
seen, not the care of n slandered woma
make her story good, but the pathetic and
OF mother who treasures every partid
hope, every intimation of good, in tn,
whom she cannot cease to love. With
describable resignation she dwelt 49,
last hours, those words addressed to .
to be understood until repeated in
The writer was so impressed and excite
the whole scene and recital that she be,
for two or three days to deliberate bt
forming any opinion. She took the m,
randa with her, returned to London, and
day or two to the consideration of the
ject. The decision which she made
chiefly influenced by her reverence and a
ton for Lady Byron. She seemed so
and had suffered so much, she stood at ST
height above the comprehension of the CO
and common world, that the author h
feeling that it would almost be like viols
shrine to ask her to come forth from
sanctuary of a silence where she had so
abode and plead her cause. She wrot
Lady Byron that while this act of Justice
seem to be called for, and to be in some
spects most desirable, yet, as it would inv
so much that was painful to her, the W
considered that Lady Byron would be ent
iustifable in leaving the truth to be discl
after her death, and recommended that al
facts necessary should be put in the hant
some person, to be 50 published
Years passed on. Lady Byron ling
four years after this interview, to the wo
Of her physicians and all her friends
Lady Byron's death the writer looked
iously, hoping to see a memoir of the pc
whom she considered the most remarl
woman that England had produced il
century. No such memoir has appearC
the part of her friends; and the mistre
Lord Byron has the ear of the public,
is sowing far and wide unworthy sian
which are eagerly gathered up and read |
undiscriminating community. There mi
family reasons in England which pre-
Lady Byron's friends from speaking; but
Byron has an American existence, and /
ence for pure wOmanhood is, we thi
national Characteristic of the American;
so far as this country is concerned, VIZ
that the public should have this refutati
the slanders of the Countess Guiccioli's