The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-01
Shall Truth or FalsehOod be Told OF Great
Meup


Men?
The Carlyle troubles will not down. The
bitterness with which Mr.. Froude was at.
tackled after his publication of the hus-
bands "reminiscences was great, but that
which has been heaped upon the
bioerapher since the wifes letters
aud diary have been given to the public,
has been far greater. A hundred eager
champions have taken up thecudgels TO be.
labor Mr.. Froude. The most venomous do
not hesitate to call him tell-tale, viola
tor of family secrets a defamer of innocent
persons, a false friend. Neither the rem,nl-
SCIENCES Of Thomas nor the correspondence
of Jane should have been published
many. The manuscripts were lett in Mr..
Froude's charge; he was to be the
Judge of whether they must be put
in print or not. With fendish iniidel.
ity, he holds up his friends iailings to the
world. The Carlylesaare victims of this
monster. They will go down TO eternity,
beshadowed with the revelations of this
worse than Boswell. The latest attack
upon Mr.. Froude is made by the versa.
tile writer, Mrs. Oliphant, friend of the
Carlyles. She does not mince words
IN characterizing the recent publication
as "a deliberate outrage upon a helpless
dead won an with neither son nor cham
pion to stand up for her, There
is not the slightest evidence that she, a,
eas', ever intended these narratives for the
world. She was the proudest wOman-as
proud and tenacious of her dignity as a
savage chief. And of all things
in the world to be placed on q
pedestal before men as a domestic matyr,
an unhappy wife, the victim OF harsh nus.
band, is the last which she would have tol-
Grated. As matter OF fact. her whole ex.
istAnce has been violated, every scrap of de.
cent drapery torn from. her, and herself ex.
hiblted IS perhaps never modest and proud
matron was before to the community of the
world" In regard to the jealousy
% Mr.. Carlyle tor Lady
Ashburton, Mrs, Oiphant writes in
one empassioned strain: The matter WAS
that there had once crossed that self.tor.
mented spirit cloud vf bitter but visionary
jealousy; the WORD is too strOng--ot hot In.
tolerance rather, impotence. bitter irrita.
ton, called forth by the pleasure her hus-
band took In the company OF certain
great lady. brilliant woman of society,
whom she did not herself love, but whose
charm and influence fascinated him. Their,
were none Of the features Of ordinary zeal.
ousy in this dark fit, no possibility of I'M
faithfulness, unless 1t might be intelec-
tual--a preference for the talk, the daz.
ze of witty circle in which worship was
paid to him, and the still more hattering
devotions OF its presiding spirit. This
fascination drew him night after
night away from home, depriving
his wife of his society, and suggesting to
her over again, by that whisper of the devil
at her ear which she was always too ready
IN lisfan IN hal oha had L.. Al.
first and only woman In the world to him
Such breath Of he'll has crossed and with.
cred many blooming life; In this case the
III was temporary, lasting but short time
and buried In the tender impeachment Of
the later chapter Of life."
When we remember that Mrs. Oliphant
was an intimate friend Of Carlyle's vile, we
can readily understand that her friendship
and also her woman's Indignation should
prompt her TO fiery denunciations of whom
20 yer even apparently wronged the dead
But Is ito time calmly and seriously 10
ask Mr.. Froude was really wrong? His PCS I.
ton is very similar to that Of Mr.. Forester,
who was LEFT with Dickens literary re !.
mains. His fault, If fault II be. consists In
having published without garbling, with.
out extenuation. without omission, with.
out addition, memoirs OF Thomas Carlyle,
prepared by Carlyle, and Of Jane Welsh
Carlyle, revised by her husband.
No fair.minded person will DOUBT but
that If these memorials were to be
published ut all, they must be published
entire. To print merely the favorable parts
Is not truthful. To give the sunlight and
not the shadow Is what no historian, no
man who respects himself, will do. What,
then, do those wish who clamor against Mr..
Froude2 Do they wish him TO paint Mr..
and Mrs. Csrlye as Two gentle, iinselfis
billing and cooling turtls.doves2 Such
sham the author Of Sartor
Resartus would be the first TO
scorch with bis whitening irony. ftheir
lives ere TO DO known d oil those who are