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    THE T O M A H A W K. A SATURDAY JOURNAL ...

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    No. 123.] LONDON, SEPTEMBER 11, 1869. [P...

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    "LET THE DEAD REST"

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    It may be doubted whether the whole" ann...

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    PIPES AND PRINCIPLES.

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    that Some on the enemy occasion of the o...

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    MONEY AND MONEY'S WORTH I

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    ous Mr attempt . Barclay to introduce , ...

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    The T O M A H A W K. A Saturday Journal ...

    THE T O M A H A W K . A SATURDAY JOURNAL OF SATIRE . ( EMtiti tip ^ . rtt ) UT a' 3 Be $ fcett . -o " INVITAT CULPAM QUI PECCATUM PRETERIT . "

    No. 123.] London, September 11, 1869. [P...

    No . 123 . ] LONDON , SEPTEMBER 11 , 1869 . [ Price Twopence .

    "Let The Dead Rest"

    "LET THE DEAD REST"

    It May Be Doubted Whether The Whole" Ann...

    It may be doubted whether the whole" annals of literature contain anything at once so cruel and so painful as Mrs . Stowe ' s Revelations of Lady ByrorCs Confidence to Her . Whether this fearful story of secret crime be true or not , whether it be exaggerated or not , whether it is the produce of a nature distorted by jealousy and debased by ill-treatment , nobody will envy the feelings of the person who has told it . For , however true it be , the guilty creatures who lived this life of infamy , and the innocent person who was their victim , are all alike dead . To tell this secret , and to tell it in such a way , can have no effect but to shock the living , to awaken feelings of bitterness , to let loose torrents of abuse and virtuous wrath , perhaps undeserved , and , above all , to wring with a ^ ony , if spirits can feel agony , the spirit of her in whose behalf this hideous profanation of the tomb is professedly committed . We cannot see ourselves the faintest justification of Mrs . Stowe ' s repulsive eagerness on Lady Byron ' s behalf . The worst ever said against her was that she was cold , austere , and wanting in the gentle ' patience which the wife of a man of such genius , but of such " violent ill-regulated passions as Byron , would have been fortunateJn possessing . That Byron was not at least to blame ' Jn ' a great measure , none but her enemies , and not his friends , could ever wholly maintain . Those who knew Byron and who loved him , —for that he was capable of inspiring iuvccuctaiur xiuiuaii iraiuo true

    , i & , ^ ., m . y , , —were paruunaDiy exasperated by the ceaseless stream of abuse and calumny which was poured upon him by the professed friends of virtue and Lady Byron . Strange as it may appear to such paragons of purity as the Times critic , Byron was accused falsely of many horrid crimes in his lifetime . This his , friends knew j and , in the bitterness of their soul , seeing as they did , to quote Lady Byron ' s own words , " how much of the angel there was in him , " they uncharitably blamed his wife for the wreck of his happiness and of his fame . There must have been something not quite bestial in the nature of that man who never sat down without his his yea child rning 's portrait eyes . , all that he was allowed to see of her , before Byron was one of our grandest poets ; every line he has written has added a stone to the temple of Britannia ' s fame . his He is one dust of . our Cruel Dead is , the and hand his Me who mory casts is dirt as sacred his to us coffin as —bas very e is the pen that " writes down " his honour upon . " De mortiiis nil nisi bonum ? It is a hacknied line , but the words breathe

    of the noble spirit which marks the " gentleman . " Mrs . Beecher Stowe has not added a whit to her " friend , " Lady Byron ' s , fair fame , and has pelted with pitiless mud the escutcheon of one of England ' s Greatest . Men . We do not envy her her handiwork .

    Pipes And Principles.

    PIPES AND PRINCIPLES .

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    Money And Money's Worth I

    MONEY AND MONEY'S WORTH I

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  • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Sept. 11, 1869, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_11091869/page/1/