The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-22
Becchers and Byrons.
A RuYMED LEADER.

. "Ah me, what perils do environ"
The woman meddling with Lord BYRON.
This was fact, as many knew II,
When he was living; but TO rue IL,
When he's been turned to dust, deceased
Some five and forty years at least
This great distinction do we owe
To Mistress Harriet Beecher stowe
n Stowe. the first of female Beechers,
paughter, wife, sister Of great preachers,
To think that you, sanity veteran,
Given TO the human races betterln'i
A moral, model, pious, pure,
Type of the Puritan demure;
A learned dame, with mind gigantic
AS ever floundered in the Atlantic
A matron, too, OF fifty eight,
With reverend silver on your pate
To think that you shculd be victim
or Byron's, when we know ne plckeo Gil
o Mistress Stowe and Doctor stowe
The scandals great, as you must hno4'
And none the !ess, IL may oe saiu'
Because the fasciaator'S deau:
Vet who'd have thought at this late day,
A dame mature should fall his prey!
That even in his grave TINS Juan
Should be q learned woman's rum
Shades OF Gulnare, Medora, Haldee,
And each removed Byronic lady,
Pity your fellow-sutIering creature,
The reverend Mrs. Stowe, nee Beecher
Open your ranks to give place
To her, the saintlieSt Of your race.
Alas the "Sunny Memories
OF Sunny Lands" beyondShe seas
Have had o shadow DER them cast
By Harriet'S late wOrk-not her last.
Behind this cloud there siill Is SHINING,
Greenback, or gold. or silver lining,
And this consoles when reputation
IsStained all o'er the wide creation;
book that sells, public, sold,,
Console in greenbacks or In gold.
So Mistress S. will Still discuss
Lord Byron, when IL pays her thus
Still will she teach the girls and boys
The wickcdness OF human Joys;
Will give them Illustrations ample
Lord Byron still her best example,
or all the vices under heaven,
And chiefly what Commandment Seven
Forbids; for what the littlc.creatures
Must have expounded by the Beechers.
When wearied with the wicked Lord,
She'll call her brother, Henry Ward,
And he will tell each little darlin'
The story Of Observation-Disclosures
There'll be some difference In the moral,
But over this they will not quarrel;
In paper. book, or magazine
The business will pay, Ween;
So on these themes there'll be some olner
Books by the lady or her brother.
Happy the age that has for teachers
or It's ingenious youth the BeecherS.
They give special education
Upon The conjugal relation; q
They train the infant mind to see
The meaning OF adultery;
Dig up the dead TO Illustrate
Tie miseries Of the married state;
Yet, though not Mormons in polygamy,
Comfort diving wretch with blgamy.
They think affinity elective
Alone makes human love effective;
But when the elector Is Eyron, he
Turns all their doctrine into irony;
Him and his widow from the grave
They drag their theories to save,
And ruthless as the worst ct vandals,
Hunt up the naStiess OF scandals,
To teach in book and magazine
The foulest OF the crimes obscene.
The business pays, for is not Beecher
More than before the great star preacher?
Plymouth Church stock has risen thls year,
Aud all because the pastor dear
Was brave and bold enough to wed
AdultererS at a dying bed.
And Harriet, by her last sensation,
Has famous grown throughout the nation.
Her recent works are so the rage
She means to raise her price ner page;
But where's her honor, where her pride
They died when Lady Byron died.
She makes her noble friend OF old
A theme for turning words to gold;
Defying others, thinks It brave
To count her profits from grave,
And press and people proudly spurns,
While growing rich from funeral urns.
But where's the man or where the woman,
Whose heart is honest while tits human,
That will not from the pages shrink
That she again deflles with ink?
Who can her older books receive
And not o'efsher lost honor gricveP
And who can give the Works Of Stowe
AS gifts, including in the row
The "Story Truen by her related,
or. "Lady Byron Iindlcated?"
Who can excuse the foul narrator,
Or vindicate the Vindicator?
Philadelphia Bulleti,s.