Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-07-30
VINDECATION OF LORD BYRON and
HIS SISTER AUGUSTA.

VIEDFCATTON OF LORD BYRON AND
HIS SISTER AUGUSTA.
Nemesis, the goddess of retribution, is
sure of her revenge, and her vengeance
is bout to be visited upon the heads of
the calumniators of the poet Byron and
his sister Augusta, for The utterance of
the vilest calumnies and most heartless
SANDERS ever uttered The London Atte-
satguna IS about to publish letters and papers
relating to Lord Byron, including letters
from Lady Byron herself, to Augusta,
which fully refute and finally dispose
Of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves hor-
rible calumny, published in the
Atlantic Monthly, in 1869. The
imputation was without any just foun-
dalton, and Mrs. Stowe, or any woman,
should have recoiled, from giving pub
liclty to such filthy, immodest, base and
outrageously false inculpations. But
"truth crushed to earth will rise again."
and the truth is about to be vindlcated,
and the SANDER and the slanderer will be
alike consigned TO cOntemptuous con-
domination, and in the judgment of the
world, Augusta Byron Leigh, will repose
in grave Of virtue and purity, which
slanderous ghouls, with hyena- like, I'M
feeling ferocity, have been attempting to
desecrate. a contemporary, with
just indignation, says: alt is shame
that the SANDER should have remained
so long without final refutation Even
if Mrs. Stowe did find private stories 60
ing about in England to base it on, it
was an internal outrage for one literary
celebrity to thus attack another's men,
DRY. 1t becomes doubly heinous when
the attacking party is a woman We
have always held that Mrs. Stoves good
name would have to suffer in some way
for this outrage. 1t was said at the time
that Henry Ward Beecher advised the
publication, and if so, he has already had
taste of the same thing in the Beecher
scandal, and we look for Mrs. Stoves
turn next, either during her life or soon
after her death" The GLOBE with feel
lngs of satisfaction gives to its readers
the coming vindication about to be pre-
sented by the London AM-
e'aGum. That journal makes
the following announcement in reference
to the new and hitherto unpublished
Byron letters and papers: "In the
course of the next few weeks we hope to
print series of hitherto unpublished
Byron papers. Beginning with a letter
from John Byron, the poets father, to
his daughter Augusta, and letters from
the poets mother to her husband; to
Mrs. Leigh, the wife of Gen. Charles
Leigh, colonel of the Twentieth regi-
ment of infantry, and to her step
daughter Augusta-the writings COM
prise: ~ A collection of poems by Lady
Byron, written during her brief resi-
dence with her husband, some of them
containing cancellations by his pen;
~ correspondence between Lady Byron
and Augusta ithe Hon. Mrs. Leigh dur
ing the term of Lady Byron's en-
gagement to the poet and the earlier
months of their married life; 81 CORE
spondence from the date of Lady Byron's
withdrawal from London till the settle
ment of the terms of her separation from
her husband; az letters from Lord Byron
to his wife, DR.. Drury, Mr. Hoppner, and
others, including his last letter to Lady
Byron, written On the eve of his depart
ure from England; 81 correspondence of
Lady Byron and Augusta from the COM
mencement of the quarrel between Lady
Byron and her husband till the date
Of Lord Byron's death; (6) documents
touching the destruction of the
"Memoirs,'' including Augustus
narrative of the circumstance of
the destruction of the famous
MS; (O correspondence from the date of
the poets death till 1880, exhibiting the
circumstances. hitherto undivulged, that
caused Lady Byron's animosity against
the woman she had held for fifteen years.
in the highest esteem; and lS) group of
letters having reference to Lady Byron's
interview with her sister-in- law in 1851,
in the presence of Mr. Robertson, of
Brighton.
"This large body of correspondence will
be found to demonstrate the baselesness
of the various statements by Lady Byron
in her later years to her sister-in-law's
discredit, and more especially of the hid
eous imagination to which Mrs. Beecher
Stowe gave such wide and lamentable
publicity some thirteen years since"