The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-09-08
The Stowe Monstrosity.

Mrs Stoves late article on Lord Byron IS bringing
down tie ihunders Of the whole press OF the world
and Ne might, for nothing Ike it was ever before
produced II could only have been conceived by the
sutleress Of Uncle Toms Cabin, and brought forth by
WOMAN steeped in iaiaaity. In this connection Re
reproduce the comments Of the New York SIR,
Lord Byron, the poet, was born in 1888 He died
Ia s24 iortyve years ago. In 1916 he was married
10 Miss Mbdnke, from whom he separated forever
about year after their marriage She died 10 1860
nine Years ago. Their daughter and only child died
several wears earlier hn she left Children VINO are
still living.
Fertv.ive years after the death of Lord Byron, and
nine years after the death OF Lady Byron Mrs stowe
American woman, comes forward and announces
that she has important and interesting secret TO dig
close that the of the estrangement and separa-
ton between Lord and Lady Byron an adnterons,
ineestuous intercourse between Lord Byron and his
own sister This fact, Mrs. stowe says was eommn.
uieated to her by Lady Byron ii 1856.
Two questions arise the mind Of the reader Of this
horrible announcement: first, Is il true and second,
Gas Jouo? for whit good end is it made.
There seems be no good and sufficient Tor
believing the statement OF Mrs. Stowe be true.
We win credit her assertion that Lady Byron made it
TO her. According to her own account, Lady byron
was very i'll ut the time--so i'll that she expected
to die II she was so i'll, she probably was tax
ing medicines. Was she was she not under the in-
llence of opium, Of some anodyne that affected her
reason Or il may be that under the efectsof disease
alone her mind had given way She had suffered great
mental anguish about her separation from her husband
and il is not improbable that she insane this
subject, even if sane all others
By what evidence was the foul charge oil Indy By
ron snpportod2 So far rs judge by Mrs. Stoves
article not by title And the public asked to
believe this terrible accusation the mefest earsay
testimony, which in court Of justice would be mad
mssibe TO prove accused person had stolen PENNY
= L rem is AZ 1
ferted by this dreadful story The fair fame Of his
We believe, until new--und who has hren
permitted long to rest peacefully in her gravethat,
too is be blighted and blasted forever hereafter by
the stain OF an unnatural crime
1t ia horrible that woman of Mrs Stoves standing
should bring forward this repnsgc charge against
those whose lips, being sealed in DEATH never
sser it, however innocent they inas have been And
the strong presumption, from the laws OF human iature
so strong to be overcome only by the most ire /
agabia evidences, that they entirely innocent.
1t il altogether probable that even if lady Byron
vas sane, and if she suspected this incredible crime
he snspiceion the offspring of Jealous and NOR
Did disposition. Whatever people may have thought
Of Lady Byron heretofore, hereafter can blame
husband for leaving wife who hated him bitterly |
.nough TO invent this story about him after he had
}een dead third OF century. Ii seems however,
according to Mrs. Stowe that the separation en-
rely the work of Lord Byron, and that his divine and
ovey wife was very axens to continue to live with her
duHeT0us ana lncesLuons husband. 10 one VINO asked
Ter how she could love him, she replied " Nv dear
here asthe angel in him. A pretty place, should
hink, according to her own story, for an angel to
lwel, Then, too, Lady Byron always expressed the
most undoubting confidence after his DEATH that this
anne adulterous and ncestuons end had gone straight
G heavenl
Lord Byrons sister told i'll her last sickness
nd dying hours, looked to Lady Byron for consolation
nd help The woman who, under these circumstances,
oud deliberately fasten this vile blot on her memory
many years after her death, must have been If sane
moral monster.
Whose name Mrs. Stowe has benefited We are unable
o preceive. Certainly not Lady Byron4 for she had
er admirers before, and can have few left now Not
ne names of the innocent grand children, who must
nifer cruel torture from this scandal Not her own
ihch was fair before but will hereafter be associated
18th Of the most outrageous and viIeat OF all the
urient stories ever invented