Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-09-04

| bHtlN uUlIcpHTeu, III Hfuke ND tue
guilty intrigue, and drove him from Eng.
land. lie had not courage 10 meet or
endure il. The world, TO I've sure, wins
very far from suspecting what the truth
was, but the tide was setting against him
with such vehemence ~ to make him
trcmblc every hour lest the whole should
be known; and henceforth il became II
warfare Of desperation to make his story
good, no matter at whose expense.
in leaving England, Lord Byron first
went to Switzerland, where he conceived
and in part wrote out the tragedy nf
"Mnnfred." Moore speaks of his domcs
tic inistortunes, aud the suffering which
he underwent Mt this time, as having M
influence in stimulating his genius so thnt
he was enabled to write with a greater
power
Anybody who reads the tragedy of
Manfred" with this story in bis mind
will see that il is correct.
The hero is represented rs gloomy
misanthrope, dwelling with impentitert
rcmorse OF the memory of an incestuon+
passion which has been the destruction of
his sister for this life aud the life to come -
but which, to the very last gasp, he dos.
pcrately refused to repent of, even while
he sees the iiends ot darkness rising 10
take possession Of his despairing soul.
That Byron knew his own guilt well, am
judged himself severely, may be gath.
cred from passages in his poem, which
are as powerful az human language can
be made
The world can easily sec in Moore's
biography what, after this, was the course
of Lord Byron's life--how he went from
! shame TO shame, and dishonor to dishon-
or, and used the fortune which his wife
brought him in the manner described in
those private letters which his biogra.
pher was left to print. Moore, indeed
says Byron had made the resolution not
TO touch his lady's fortune, but adds that
it required more self-command than he
possessed to carry out so honorable II
purpose.
Lady Byron made but one condition
with him. She had him in her power,
and she exacted that the unhappy part,
ner of his sins should not follow him out
of England, and that the rninous intrigue
should be given up. Her infexibility Oh
this point kept up that enmity which was
constantly expressing itself in some pub
lcation or other, and which drew her
and her private relations with him before
the public.
As a mother, her course was embar.
rassed by peculiar trials. The daughter
inherited from the father not only bril-.
liant talents, but a resilessness and NOR.
bid sensibiity which might be too surely
traced to the storms and agitations Of
the period in which she was born. 1t
/ to h.;,,os r., =.
ance OF the true history of her mothers
life, and the consequence was that she
could not fully understand that mother.
During her early girlhood, her career
was source of more anxiety than of
comfort. She married man of fashion.
ran brilliant course as gay woman of
fashion, and died early of a lingering and
painful disease.
In the silence and shaded retirement of
the sick room, the daughter came wholly
back to her mothers arms and heart, and
1t was OH that mothers bosom she leaned,
as she went down into the dark valley.
1t was that mother who placed her weak
and dying hand in that of her Almighty
Savior.
To the children left by her daughter
she ministered with the faithfulness of
guardian angel and it is owing TO her
influence that those who yet remain are
among the noblest and best OF mankind.
The person whose relations with
Byron had been so disastrous, also, in
the latter years of her lite, felt Lady
Byron'S loving and ennobling influences,
and in her last sickness and diving hours
looked to hc' for consolation and help.
lhprn W IN to nl,,ll or =.
born with the curse upon her, over
whose wayward nature Lady Byron
I watched with a mothers tenderness
She was the one who could have patience
when the patience Of every one else
failed; and, though her task was a
difficult oncs from the strange, abnormal
propensities to evil in the object of her
cares, yet Lady Byron fever filtered
and never gave over, until death took
the responsibility from her hands.
During all this trial, strange to say,
her belief in the good of Lord Byron
would finally conquer was unshaken.
To friend who said TO her, 40, low
could you love him :" she answered
briefly, "My dear, there was the angel
in him" 1t is in us all.
1t was in this angel that she had faith.
1t was for the deliyerance of this angel
from degradation, and shame, and SIM,
that she INCREASINGLY prayed. She read,
every work that Byron wrote, read it
with deeper knowledge than any human
being but herself could possess. The
ribaldry and the obscenily, and the In
suits with which he strove to make her
ridiculous to the world, fell at her pity
ing feet HDheeded..
| When he broke away from all this un-
worthy life to devote himself to manly
enterprise for the redemption of Greece,
she thought that she saw the beginning:
of an answer TO her prayers. Even all
though one of his latest acts concerning
/ fher was to repeat to Lady Blessingtoh
the false accusation which made Lady
Byron the author of all his errors, she
still had hopes, from the one step taken
in the right direction.
u In the night of these hopes came, the