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    • SOMETHING LIKE A DUCHESS!
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      I5q The Tomaha Wk. [October 2, 1869.

      I 5 Q THE TOMAHA WK . [ October 2 , 1869 .

      Something Like A Duchess!

      SOMETHING LIKE A DUCHESS !

      To Have Seen A Live Duchess Is An Event ...

      To have seen a live Duchess is an event in many persons ' lives . It is a visible assurance of the existence of a superior order and which of beings we very , which rarely we get often . The sig old h for lady on ' s exclamation other occasions who , like saw anyone the Queen else for "— the conveys first time a deep in moral her life . — It " is Lor disappointing ! she ' s just sometimes to find that the fortunate and semi-divine beings who live on such nectar and ambrosia as this world affords , and when breathe they onl dei y gn the to pure descend refined among air of us ordinary Society ' s mortals Olympus not , are so , divine after all . , But it would appear that the Duchess of Beaufort is in no danger of disappointing those who are fortunate to see or hear her Grace . She is an orator of surprising excellence . All the last papers week contained , a report , in of the three most speeches prominent delivered part of by their her columns Grace at , the annual dinner of the Badminton Farmers' Club . We are have sure read that , these if our gems readers of eloquence should have , that been they happy will onl enoug y be h too to glad to read them again . We give them entire : — First Speech . speeches " Ladies such and as Gentlemen you have , been —You accustomed must not to expect hear from from thi me s chair anyone , so can ably feel filled a as pride it has and been pleasure in former in giving years ; the but Queen I think ' s health , and I give it now—* The Queen : God bless her . ' " any Modest ordinary , short person , and ' s to speech the point ; but we , coming should from say if a speaking Duchess— of Gad ! Demosthenes is nothing to it . Second Speech . " Her Grace the Duchess next rose and said—I have one chairman more toast — to or propose shall I , say and chairwoman then I think ?— the will arduous cease ( app duties lause of ) . It is * Success to the Badminton Farmers' Club . ' May it go on and prosper , and be for many years to come a happy gathering of friends and neighbours , a day to be remembered with pleasure , and to be looked back upon with satisfaction ( cheers ) . " " chairwoman Original , poetical . " How , is tlie not farmers it ? Witty must , ha too re , cheered that touch ! Every about - body present must have been struck with amazement at such a masterpiece of oratory coming from a woman and a Duchess I Third Speech . " He for r the Grace kind , in manner responding in which , said—Again have and received again the I thank toast you which has been proposed by Mr . Kilminster you . I wish I had the power to say all I feel ; but accept my imperfectly-expressed gratitude in being , at and Badminton believe that and I finding have never myself greater surrounded pleasure by than so many kind and friendly faces ( cheers ) . " hav If e this dazzled had one not with been its preceded brilliancy b ; y as the it is other it seem two , s it a would little commonp and then we lace can . But understand we must wh remember y these , at who first , the sight speaker , not was very , interesting specimens of " The Elegant Speaker " should have been so paraded before the world by our honest , independent Press Let , which us not , we be know misunderstood , is " no respecter . We of heartil persons . " laud the Duchess of Beaufort for supplying her husband y ' s app place : we have ers ha greatest ve made us spect one for of the her audience j and we at consider the dinner , now of t the he pap Badminton Club , that she acquitted herself very fairly . But we protest against the ridiculous prominence that has been remarkable given , to speeches the report . In of the these first simp case le i t and seems not to us an insu way lt ness to woman of resources to treat , such as an a exceptional very easy matte instance , r as s tanding talent up a before readia very friendly audience of persons whose position with regard to sensible her was words in some . Surel sense we that canno of t dependents have such a low es tima te of woman ' s intellect as t y o think such an exhibition of her talents in any way remarkable . ism Bu of t this the matter English also nation illustrates , if the very Duchess strongly the of Beaufort gross toady had -

      To Have Seen A Live Duchess Is An Event ...

      been longer plai and n Mrs much . Beaufort more , talented and had than made those thirty which speeches we much have quoted she is a , no Duchess notice would word have that been falls taken from of them her mouth ; but because is to be reported as if they every were of the greatest political or moral importance . This snobbish adulation of the aristocracy would be bad boasts enoug of the h in sturd an oli y garch independence y , but in of a country its peop like le , and this its , which practical common sense , it is simply nauseous .

      B Yron" Versus Sto We.

      B YRON" versus STO WE .

      Probably We Have Not Heard The Last Of T...

      Probably we have not heard the last of this now famous case , but there may not be a better opportunity for reviewing with the conduct regard of to those the general concerned moral in it effects , and for which examining it has the produced matter , rather than to the details of the question immediately at issue . It is said that Mrs . Stowe intends publishing a vindication of herself . She had better be silent : nothing that she can say in her own defence can fail to add to her offence ; putting her case story in were the true very , best but that possible Lady lig B ht yron , —supposing had solemnl not y onl abjured y that this her 1 I to publish it , supposing the Countess Guiccioli had published f the most disgraceful accusations against Lady Byron ( which she did not ) , supposing that Mrs . Stowe Tiad done her task the with less great have delicacy been guilty and unfei of an gned unnecessary sorrow , — and still cruel she would outrage none on the dead , she would none the less have forfeited the esteem and respect of every generous and honest mind . But when we consider what that she her was conduct publishing really has the been most , that damning she oug statements ht to have that known she might have known that she was arrogating to hersel , f a duty making solemnly an delegated infamous by charge Lady B against yron to a her lad executors y , and so , dishonouring that she was was her children entirely misrepresenting without due evidence the position to support occupied the charge by ope , that living she lad ing y the towards dead the friend poet whose in his lifetime long , suffering that she and was imp patience licatcalumny she praised to which so much history in possesses an act of no vindictiveness parallel , that , she in was a cruel , as it were , dragging Lady Byron out of her grave and making the hand of the helpless corpse write the foul charge that should blast this the fame and we of him have whom not exhausted she so much half loved the outrages , —when we on consider decency and the , future morality Mrs included . Stowe may in this court act oblivi , we on may in well obscurity hope . that for But far worse even than her conduct is that of those writers who , without any inquirysitting in the calm retirement of their own belongs studies the , responsibility adopted this ^ of calumny having . opened First , the to the pages publisher of his suc Magazine h as it is to such He was a painful afraid this personality " good thing . He " would has his be excuse picked up some by brother some in other the trade publisher - ^ -perhaps , and some the one gains in pocketed the religious by line tale . —s He o he is was quite de welcom termined e to to his be e the xcuse first , and to profit to the byj high the opinion horrid critic of Eng of lish the publishers 7 Hmes vrh . o t without lied in stopp it . ing But one now moment we come to question to the it the to truth his of congenial this highl breast y-spiced , and and wrote improbable of Byron story and , gladl Mrs y hugged , Leigh meanness the vilest thing which 's possible this writer to m write anaged of man to gather or woman round him Mark : The the next that Mrs day . appears Leigh was a le probabl tter with y not an the anonymous legitimate si child gnature of , Captain stating in Byron considering , and , therefore that t , here " the was poet no and blood she mi re l ht ationshi have p been between right them . " Conceive the moral state of the man who could put lish forward such this excuse excuse ! Some for incest days or later of the the Times blic who haying could found rethat every honest and decent-minded person was , disgusted at leading the neve outrage r been article surpassed on , which Byron ' for s even an meanness d in Mrs tl > . at Lei paper and gh ' s memor . cowardl If the y y , published v Times enom were has inca the least able it of could apolog have izing done for the was vileness to have of held its critic its tongue ' s conduct , and , not know have it had shown committed that while a disgraceful it had just action enough , it sense had not left the to

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Oct. 2, 1869, page 150, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_02101869/page/2/