The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1869-09-02
NUMBER 8.

unanimously added that, if on review, he found
he had been mistaken in the nature of his
feelings, she would Immediately release him,
and they should remain only friends.
Overcome by the conflict Of his feelings,
Lord Byron tainted away. Miss Mlbanke
was convinced that his heart must really be
deeply involved in an attachment with refer
encc to which he showed so much emotion,
and she spoke no more of 4 dissolution of the
engagement.
There is no reason to doubt that Byron was.
as he relates in his Dream, profoundly agoni-
zed and agtated, when he stood before Gods
alter, with the trusting young creature whom
he was leading to 4 fate so awfully tragic;
yet twas not the memory of Mary Chaworth,
but another guiltier and more damning mem
ory that oyershadowed that hour
The moment the carriage doors were shut
upon the bridegroom and bride, the parox-
ysm Of remorse and despair re-
morse and angry despair-broke forth upon
her gentle head. You might have saved me
from this, madam you had all in your power
when offered myself to you first Then YOU
might have made me what you pleased; but
now you will find You have married a dcrH?"
There were lucid intervals in which Lord
Byron felt the charm of his wifcs mind and
the strength Of her powers. There were sum
mer hours in her stormy life, the memory of
which never left her
But there came an hour of revelation-an
hour when, in 4 manner which left no kind Of
room for doubt, Lady Byron saw the full
depth of the abyss of int;lmy which her mar
rage was expected to cover, and understood
that She was expected to be the cloak and the
arcompiice Of this infamy
Many women would have been utterly
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have fled from him Immediately, and exposed
and denounced the crime. Lady Byron did
neither. When all the hope of womanhood
died out of her heart, there arose within her,
stronger, purer and brighter, that immortal
kind of love such as God feels for the sinner
the love of which Jesus spoke and which
holds the one Wanderer of more account than
the ninety and nine that went not ;lStrav.
She would neither leave her husband nor be-
tray him, nor yet would She for one nlolntnt
justify his sin and hence came two wears OF
convulsive struggle in which sometimes, fol
Il while, the good angel seemed to cain
ground, and then the evil one returned with
Seventold vchemence
1t was when the state OF affairs between
herself and her husband seemed darkest and
most hopeless, that the only child Of this
union was born, Lord Byron's treatment OF
his wife during the sensitive period that pre-
ccded the birth of this child and during her
confinement was marked by par"Xysms Of
unmanly brutality, for which the only posi-
Bic charity on her part was the supposition OF
insanity Moore sheds 4 significant LIGHT ON
this period, by telling us that about this time
Byron was often drunk day after day with
Sheridan. A day or two after the birth OF
this child, Lord Byron came suddenly into
Lady Byron's room, and told her that her
mother was dead II was an utter tal>rhooI,
but il was only one Of the many nameesS in
.Iuries and cructics by which he expressed his
hatred Of her A short time after her contine-
ment, she was informed by him, in II note
that as soon rs she was able to travel She
must 90. that he could not and would not
longer have her about him and. when her
child was only five weeks old, he carried this
threat Of expulsion into effect.
For a long time before this She had seen lit
tie of him. On the day Of her departure She
passed BY the door of his room, and stop
ped tn caress his iavorltc spaniel, which was
lying there; and She contessekt Il friend the
weakness of feeling Willingness even to be
something Us humble rs that poor creature,
might she only be allowed to remain and
watch over him. She went into thc room
where he and the partner of his ,in~ were 1t
ting together, and said, 'Byron, ! came to
say good bye Offering ut the same time her
hand.
Lord Byron put his hands behind him, rc-
treated TO the mstntle-piece, and locking round
on the two that stood there, with Il sarcastic
smile said "When shall we three meet
agan?' Lady Byron answered: I'm heaven,
trust = and these We're her last words to him
on earth.
After this separation the tide of popular
feeling set 50 strongly against Lord Byron
that he left England for Switzerland, where
he conceived and in part wrote the tragedy
Of Manfred" wherein the grief and misery
Of his own life pictured with almost autobo-
graphical laithiulneSS. On his departure from
England, Lady Byron cXacted that the unhap-
py partner of his sins should not accompany
him, and her nllcNiblity on this point kept
alive the cnmitv which Lord Byron constantly
expressed in his poems and letters. Lady
Byron now employed herself in the charitable
dispensation of that portion of her fortune
still remaining to her, and the difficult and
embarrassing duties as the mother of Lord
Byron's child Her loving and cnnobling in
tluence was also felt and acknowledged by
that person whose guilty connection with her
husband had been SO disastrous, and over the
WayWard nature of that other child born with
the curse OF sin upon her, Lady Byron watch
ed with all mothers tenderness. During
all the years Of Lord Byrons continental life
the faith Of his wife in the final triumph of the
good in his nature never weakened. To Il
friend who asked how she could love Lord
Byron she answered: MY dear, there was
the angel in him. TO her his efforts in be-
half OF Grccian liberty and independence
We're signs of n final answer to her prayers.
but in the midst of the hopes thus excited
came the news of her husbands death
During all these weary years, and to the
day of her death, the wronged wife, in spite
Of every provocalon afforded by Lord Byron'S
kept her melancholy his
tory to herself; and it is only made public
now, because the mistress Of Lord Byron has
the ear of the public, and is sowing far and
wide unworthy ISLANDERS which are eagerly
gathered up and read by IN undiscriminating
public
HORRIBLE OUTRAGE Hl NEGROES IN
GEORGIA. The Macon (Ga. Journal of Aug
10Th contains the following record Of most
horrible and revolving outrage -
We learn from a gentleman who is engag-
ed in LAYING out the railroad track on the new
Brunswick road, that on Thursday last two
respectable young girls, residing near station
No. II, upon the Central road were on their
way home from school, when they were over
taken by two stout negroes, who immediately
seized them, and despite their screams for
,ccictapon oDor,;+toI :, I;,bol;o,1 o,,tr,n,