[Lady Byron Vindicated by Harriet Beecher Stowe]@TWC D-Link bookLady Byron Vindicated CHAPTER V 26/26
It is the deepest personal injury to an honourable mind to be made, through misrepresentation, an accomplice in injustice. When a noble name is accused, any person who possesses truth which might clear it, and withholds that truth, is guilty of a sin against human nature and the inalienable rights of justice.
I claim that I have not only a right, but an obligation, to bring in my solemn testimony upon this subject. For years and years, the silence-policy has been tried; and what has it brought forth? As neither word nor deed could be proved against Lady Byron, her silence has been spoken of as a monstrous, unnatural crime, 'a poisonous miasma,' in which she enveloped the name of her husband. Very well; since silence is the crime, I thought I would tell the world that Lady Byron had spoken. Christopher North, years ago, when he condemned her for speaking, said that she should speak further,-- 'She should speak, or some one for her.
One word would suffice.' That one word has been spoken..
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