Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-19
THE BYRON SCANDAL.
Letter from One of the Poets
Friends---His Autobiography.

The La Crosse (Wis.) LeGdeF says:
We are, through the courtesy of Capt.
Dan Webster, of this city, in posses
sion of a letter relating to the Stowe
Byron matter, which we are permit
ted to give to the public. The
writer's full name is Paul James Lind
berg. He is q Swiss by birth, and
was for the last three years of Lord
ByrOn's life with him in Italy.
While with him he kept a record of
all he saw and knew of Byron, and
has in his possession at the present
time all his manuscripts. He is so
sseadlast a friend to Capt. Webster
he has promised to send the same
Vb him. To those who have read
Mrs. Stoves famous article, this letter
will b6 particularly interesting, as the
sage IOf it knew probably more of the
great characters he names than al
most any person on this continent.
porrSare promised the sight and peru
sGi of the manuscript book on its arri-
val. We give the letter at present
without note or comment. Those
who have a taste for " looking up this
case as the lawyers would say, viii
eagerly read this letter. Those who
have not, will remember that we con-
duet a netcS paper, and not condemn
US for its publication:
MILWAUKEE, September ..
CdDt. WeJSter: | leave with your
brother-in-law, in this city, for you,
the manuscript book of which | spoke
to YOU when we last met, and concern
ing which | have written to you SO
often. You will find in that manu-
script much of what you have read in
several of the newspapers, where Mrs.
Stoves masterpiece of heart and gem
ius is served up in the ByrOnic scan
dial. Can it be possible that any man,
or unseXed woman, with senses a hair
breadth above those of a beast, can
read the WOman's malignantand alto
gether unwarrantable, uncalled-for
libel against the defenseless dead, and
the nameless insult and heart-break-
ing assault on several highly respecta-
bic, yet loving descendants of her vic
Tins? | hope not. 1t is next to inn
possible, l believe, to discern which
one Of these three women to most CEN
sure-pity would perhaps be the bet
ter wOrd-Mrs. Byron, Mrs. Stowe, or
Mrs. GuicciOli Byron, for this most
scandalOus offspring Of the press Of the
present, presented in sucha ~respecta-
bic periodical.
Would charity be too ungenerOuslY
imposed upon if asked to pronounce
Lady Byron and Mrs. Stowe at differ
ent times as beings under a gentle in
fiuence of incurable insanity, instead
of attributing that enviable state Of
mind to their now d~efenseless victims?
Only the blacklist, the lowest inn
aginahle towards will war with the
defenseless dead; and these warriors
now in question, warriors in petticoats
butdifferentlyarmed theyareeertainly
no admirers of the ancient sage who
said, De mOTtHis nihJ, TtiSf belei IT
there is no delUsiOn, general or par
tial, and there is no Willingness or ca
pacity to distinguish between tmOral-
ly?) right or wrong, these women
may still lack, by reason of some
frightful disease, the power of selfcOn-
troll. The suppOsitiOn which would
acknowledge this mOn0mania of these
two ladies aforesaid, or OF all the
three in question, perhaps, is danger
Gus in its relation; inasmuch as it was
habitual with one of them at least,
and has eYinced itself in the other two
in more than one single instance.
Lady GuicciOli is as incapable Of
knowingly telling a falsehOOd as a
rosebud would be to committing a
burglary, for she was always a slave
to conscience, and a woman Of many
virtues and few ideas. Lady Mill
bank(e) Byron was said by the great
majority other acquainGances (Eletch-
er eXcepted) to have been a most eX-
cellent but eminently disagreeable
wOman-a combination Of qualities
by no means uncommon, in spite of
all that Mrs. Stowe tells US of her in
carnatiOn of purity, innocence, for
bearanee, and "unpardOuable" for
giveness. Can there well be exhibited
a more conclusive evidence of ineura-
bic insanity than-First to affirm that
this so enormously abused, injured,
patient, and forgiying wife, Lady G..
q. N. Byron, nee Millbank(el
loved her monster of a husband
with such inhtuation, and with
such platonic purity and disinterest-
edness since their conjugal reconellia-
ton was totally impossible; that she
took to her own bosom a child-an
offspring OF a crime so hideous that it
beggars almost a name, and has its
parallel only in the history Of Papal
sanctity and Apostolic license to for
give and condemn al ibitaan-and az
forwards, for half a century or there
about kept that terrible secret inviO-
late-hidden-while it slowly pene-
trated the very center thFob Of the
heart; and, secondly, to insinuate,
and to try to force the world to be-