June 16, 1971 (8 pages)

Prretinv20 nlanarerseminy bat ely AE nes fob Mapenmemnntet tk Be ee ae te cee Rts ‘ tobert White an party. at ; with cannon, and guns, and swords, with the sand devils, and surrounded her little castle. paties of her friends, who were with her, she : before the infuriated mob, which demanded a moment had the effect of paralyaing them, seemed like an. act of insanity. And it was a ; the old man Said of his unmanageable horse. s were presented at her, and a hundred fat ices fiercely demanded that sheshould cause t she had done. Ina language of great mildnessne to scold she replied that it was impossible de to such a request. What had been done was for the good of the people, and for the honor take her life, if they would, but that would never . for her blood would never prove they were in the ist of this speech she was dragged back within ‘friends; and soon after, on perceiving that prenaking to burn it down, she yielded to the persuties of her friends, and made her escape disant girl she retreated, on foot, through the snow ruary), about seven miles into the country. The iberal party were obliged also to escape into the sir families. z was now helplessly banished from Bavaria, and ther alternative left but to make immediate rea shelter of the some friendly state. That state d, that little republic that lies like a majesticidst of the monarchial vultures and cormorants . , before Lola Montez quitted Bavaria forever, disguised in boy's clothes riding nights and y still by day and at twelve o'clock at night ' Jast audience with the king. She could not even wight that he should, with his own hand destroy nich he had made at her instigation, She pointed e impossibility of holding his throne, unless he ) the disgraceful humility of recanting the great he had proclaimed he had done under a sense ustice. She convinced.him that it would be best for and that the backward step should be taken by his an enemy of the Liberal party, and who in a short fatherest, must ascend the throne. Louis readily ety of this advice, and he faithfully kept the promn made, to abdicate. And Lola Montez, under the inight sky, went out in her boy's disguise, to look 's and spires of Munich for the last time. She knew e discovered she would be ignonimously shot but nk, or care much about that. Her thoughts were on they have never been able to look much to a future at least. s have elapsed since the events with which Lola onnected in Bavaria, and yet the malice of the difer-vigilant Jesuits is as fresh and active as it was “jt assailed her. For it is not too much for her to artists, of her profession, ever escaped with so And certainly none ever had the doors of the . respectability so universally open to her, as she me she went to Bavaria. And she denies that there in her conduct there which.ought to have comprofore the world. Her enemies assailed her, not beseds were bad, but because they knew of no other troy her influence, On this point I must quote again of the American Law Journal. Speaking of the nce in Lola Montez, it says: Hachment enabled her to work out the great political h have taken place in Bavaria; and it is but just to that it is the political use she has made of her rethe king, and not the immorality of the connection it1s ‘hrought upon her most of the vehement censures efeated party has, from time to time, bestowed, ac~ spleoheb ihe Ad! ‘hettolonidanabanoketsxdeits tesahen Lah -ivaghi ee x Soe companied by the bitterest ccalumnies. The moral indignation which her opponent displayed was, unfortunately, a mere sham. They have not only tolerated, but patronized, a female who formely held a most equivocal position with the king, because she made herself subservient to the then dominating party. Let Lola Montez have credit for her talents, her intelligence, and her support of popular rights. As a political character, she held, until her retirement from Switzerland, an‘important position in Bavaria and Germany, besides having agents and correspondents in various parts of Europe. On foreign politics she had clear ideas, and has been treated by the political men of the country as a substantive power. She always kept state secrets, and could be consulted in safety in cases in which her original habits rendered her of service. Acting under her advice the king pledged himself to a course of steady improvement in the political freedom of the people. Although she wielded so much power, it is alleged that she never used it for-the promotion of unworthy persons, or, as other favorites have done, for corrupt purposes: and there is reason to believe that poltical feeling influenced her course, not sordid considerations." : ‘I will add that Lola Montez could then easily have been the richest woman that ever lived, had she preferred her own adage “to the success of political freedom. She willing! sacrificed herself for a principle, and lost, alas!., that. Her last hope for Bavaria being broken, she turned her attention toward Switzerland, as the nearest shelter from _ the storm that was beating above her head, She had influenced the king of Bavaria to withhold his assent to a proposition from Austria, which had for its objects, the destruction of that little Republic of Switzerland, If republics are ungrateful, ‘ Switzerland certainly was not so to Lola Montez; for it received her with open arms, made her its guest, and generously offered to bestow upon her an establishment for life. It was a. great mistake that she refused that offer, for had she remained in Switzerland, she could have preserved that potential power among those scheming nations, spoke of in the quotation from the American Law Journal, and might have still farther chastised the Jesuit party in Germany. ; But she allowed this brilliant opportunity to pass, and went to London to enter upon another marriage experiment, of which nothing but sorrow and mortification came, The time which she afterwards lived in Paris was, however, pleasantly and comfortably, spent, Her house was the resort of the most gifted literary geniuses of Paris, and there she had the honor and happiness of entertaining many literary gentlemen from America, who were temporarily sojourning in the French capital, The next step of any public note taken by Lola Montez was her passage to America. Coming out in the same ship with Kossuth, Shattered in fortune, and broken _in health, she came with. curiosity and reviving hopes, to. the shofes of the New World; this stupendous assylum of the world's unfortunate, and the last refuge of the victims of the tyranny and wrongs of the Old. World! God grant that it may ever stand as it is now, the noblest column of liberty that was ever reared beneath the arch of heaven! Of Lola Montez’ career in the United States there is not much to be = said. On arriving in this country she found the same terrible power which had pursued her in Europe,The blows she had given it in Germany, held here the means to fill the American press with a thousand anecdotes and rumors which were entirely unjust and false in relation to her. Among other things, she had had the honor of hor sewhipping hundreds of men who she never knew, and never saw. But there is one comfort in all these falsehoods, which is, that these men very likely would have deserved horsewhipping, if she had only known them. As a specimen of the pleasant things said to Lola Montez, I am going to quote you from a book, entitled "The Adventures of Mrs, Seacole", published last year in London (the year was 1857), and edited by no less of a literary man than the gifted correspondent of the London Times, W. H. Russell, Esq, Mrs, Seacole is giving her adventures at Cruces, between here and California, She says: . "Oecasionally, some distinguished passengers on the up-. ward and lowward tides of rascality and reffianism, swept periodically through Cruces. Came one day, Lola Montez, in. 3 full zenith of her evil fame, bound for California with a strangesuit,.A good-looking, bold woman, with fine eyes, and a determined bearing, she dressed ostentatiously in perfect male attire, with shirt collar turned down over a velvet lappelled coat, ~ richly worked shirt front, black hat, French unmentionables, and natty polished boots, with spurs. She carried in her hand a handsome riding-whip, which she could use as well in the streets of Cruces, as in the towns of Europe; for an impertinent Ameri: can, presuming perhaps not unnaturally, upon her reputation, laid hold jestingly of the tails of her long coat, and, as a lesson received a cut across his face that must have marked him for several days, I did not want to see the row that followed, and was glad when the wretched woman rode off on the following morning." could not, therefore, have whipped the Americans as described, _went to California the new route was opened and she passed many miles from that place. seen in the paper or books about Lola Montez, they would form © a mountain higher than Chimbarazo. s her lectures, she has experienced nothing but kindness at .:: the hands of the entire respectable press of the country. And . for this she will carry in her heart a grateful remembrance, when she is back again amidst the scenes of the Old World, And, indeed, as for that, she will carry a whole new world _back with her; for her heart and brain are full of the stupendous ~ strides ‘which freedom has made in this magnificent country. Those of you who have not had the same taste of the quality of government in the Old World, can but half relish your own glorious institutions. The pilgrim at the effete forms of Europe,. = “must look upon your great republic with as happy an eye as = the storm-tossed and ship-wrecked mariner looks upon the = first star that shines beneath the receding tempest, And now. suffer me to close ‘my lecture here with the last words of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: * Now, there are several rather common mistakes in this notice, © First, Lola Montez was never dressed off the stagein =: man's apparel in her whole life, except when she went back ~disguised in Bavaria, Second, therefore no man could have pulled the tails of her coat at Cruces, Third, she never had a whip in her hand in Cruces, and = Fourth, she was never in Cruces in her life, Before she Fifth, the whole story is a base fabrication from beginning . to end, It is as false as Mrs. Seacole's own name, Another funny thing is, that Mrs, Seacole makes this interesting event occur in 1851, whereas Lola Montez did not go to California until 1853, If I were to collect all similar falsehoods which I have , But no matter for these, Since Lola Montez commenced "Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been— A sound which makes us linger, yet farewell Ye! who have traced the pilgrim to the scene Which is his last, if in your memories dwell "og A thought which once was his, if on ye dwell 3 A single recollection, not in vain He wore his sandal-shoon and scallop-shell; Farewell! with him alone may rest the pain, If such there were— with you the moral of his strain," THE END . 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Prretinv20 nlanarerseminy bat ely AE nes fob Mapenmemnntet tk Be ee ae te cee Rts ‘ tobert White an party. at ; with cannon, and guns, and swords, with the sand devils, and surrounded her little castle. paties of her friends, who were with her, she : before the infuriated mob, which demanded a moment had the effect of paralyaing them, seemed like an. act of insanity. And it was a ; the old man Said of his unmanageable horse. s were presented at her, and a hundred fat ices fiercely demanded that sheshould cause t she had done. Ina language of great mildnessne to scold she replied that it was impossible de to such a request. What had been done was for the good of the people, and for the honor take her life, if they would, but that would never . for her blood would never prove they were in the ist of this speech she was dragged back within ‘friends; and soon after, on perceiving that prenaking to burn it down, she yielded to the persuties of her friends, and made her escape disant girl she retreated, on foot, through the snow ruary), about seven miles into the country. The iberal party were obliged also to escape into the sir families. z was now helplessly banished from Bavaria, and ther alternative left but to make immediate rea shelter of the some friendly state. That state d, that little republic that lies like a majesticidst of the monarchial vultures and cormorants . , before Lola Montez quitted Bavaria forever, disguised in boy's clothes riding nights and y still by day and at twelve o'clock at night ' Jast audience with the king. She could not even wight that he should, with his own hand destroy nich he had made at her instigation, She pointed e impossibility of holding his throne, unless he ) the disgraceful humility of recanting the great he had proclaimed he had done under a sense ustice. She convinced.him that it would be best for and that the backward step should be taken by his an enemy of the Liberal party, and who in a short fatherest, must ascend the throne. Louis readily ety of this advice, and he faithfully kept the promn made, to abdicate. And Lola Montez, under the inight sky, went out in her boy's disguise, to look 's and spires of Munich for the last time. She knew e discovered she would be ignonimously shot but nk, or care much about that. Her thoughts were on they have never been able to look much to a future at least. s have elapsed since the events with which Lola onnected in Bavaria, and yet the malice of the difer-vigilant Jesuits is as fresh and active as it was “jt assailed her. For it is not too much for her to artists, of her profession, ever escaped with so And certainly none ever had the doors of the . respectability so universally open to her, as she me she went to Bavaria. And she denies that there in her conduct there which.ought to have comprofore the world. Her enemies assailed her, not beseds were bad, but because they knew of no other troy her influence, On this point I must quote again of the American Law Journal. Speaking of the nce in Lola Montez, it says: Hachment enabled her to work out the great political h have taken place in Bavaria; and it is but just to that it is the political use she has made of her rethe king, and not the immorality of the connection it1s ‘hrought upon her most of the vehement censures efeated party has, from time to time, bestowed, ac~ spleoheb ihe Ad! ‘hettolonidanabanoketsxdeits tesahen Lah -ivaghi ee x Soe companied by the bitterest ccalumnies. The moral indignation which her opponent displayed was, unfortunately, a mere sham. They have not only tolerated, but patronized, a female who formely held a most equivocal position with the king, because she made herself subservient to the then dominating party. Let Lola Montez have credit for her talents, her intelligence, and her support of popular rights. As a political character, she held, until her retirement from Switzerland, an‘important position in Bavaria and Germany, besides having agents and correspondents in various parts of Europe. On foreign politics she had clear ideas, and has been treated by the political men of the country as a substantive power. She always kept state secrets, and could be consulted in safety in cases in which her original habits rendered her of service. Acting under her advice the king pledged himself to a course of steady improvement in the political freedom of the people. Although she wielded so much power, it is alleged that she never used it for-the promotion of unworthy persons, or, as other favorites have done, for corrupt purposes: and there is reason to believe that poltical feeling influenced her course, not sordid considerations." : ‘I will add that Lola Montez could then easily have been the richest woman that ever lived, had she preferred her own adage “to the success of political freedom. She willing! sacrificed herself for a principle, and lost, alas!., that. Her last hope for Bavaria being broken, she turned her attention toward Switzerland, as the nearest shelter from _ the storm that was beating above her head, She had influenced the king of Bavaria to withhold his assent to a proposition from Austria, which had for its objects, the destruction of that little Republic of Switzerland, If republics are ungrateful, ‘ Switzerland certainly was not so to Lola Montez; for it received her with open arms, made her its guest, and generously offered to bestow upon her an establishment for life. It was a. great mistake that she refused that offer, for had she remained in Switzerland, she could have preserved that potential power among those scheming nations, spoke of in the quotation from the American Law Journal, and might have

still farther chastised the Jesuit party in Germany. ; But she allowed this brilliant opportunity to pass, and went to London to enter upon another marriage experiment, of which nothing but sorrow and mortification came, The time which she afterwards lived in Paris was, however, pleasantly and comfortably, spent, Her house was the resort of the most gifted literary geniuses of Paris, and there she had the honor and happiness of entertaining many literary gentlemen from America, who were temporarily sojourning in the French capital, The next step of any public note taken by Lola Montez was her passage to America. Coming out in the same ship with Kossuth, Shattered in fortune, and broken _in health, she came with. curiosity and reviving hopes, to. the shofes of the New World; this stupendous assylum of the world's unfortunate, and the last refuge of the victims of the tyranny and wrongs of the Old. World! God grant that it may ever stand as it is now, the noblest column of liberty that was ever reared beneath the arch of heaven! Of Lola Montez’ career in the United States there is not much to be = said. On arriving in this country she found the same terrible power which had pursued her in Europe,The blows she had given it in Germany, held here the means to fill the American press with a thousand anecdotes and rumors which were entirely unjust and false in relation to her. Among other things, she had had the honor of hor sewhipping hundreds of men who she never knew, and never saw. But there is one comfort in all these falsehoods, which is, that these men very likely would have deserved horsewhipping, if she had only known them. As a specimen of the pleasant things said to Lola Montez, I am going to quote you from a book, entitled "The Adventures of Mrs, Seacole", published last year in London (the year was 1857), and edited by no less of a literary man than the gifted correspondent of the London Times, W. H. Russell, Esq, Mrs, Seacole is giving her adventures at Cruces, between here and California, She says: . "Oecasionally, some distinguished passengers on the up-. ward and lowward tides of rascality and reffianism, swept periodically through Cruces. Came one day, Lola Montez, in. 3 full zenith of her evil fame, bound for California with a strangesuit,.A good-looking, bold woman, with fine eyes, and a determined bearing, she dressed ostentatiously in perfect male attire, with shirt collar turned down over a velvet lappelled coat, ~ richly worked shirt front, black hat, French unmentionables, and natty polished boots, with spurs. She carried in her hand a handsome riding-whip, which she could use as well in the streets of Cruces, as in the towns of Europe; for an impertinent Ameri: can, presuming perhaps not unnaturally, upon her reputation, laid hold jestingly of the tails of her long coat, and, as a lesson received a cut across his face that must have marked him for several days, I did not want to see the row that followed, and was glad when the wretched woman rode off on the following morning." could not, therefore, have whipped the Americans as described, _went to California the new route was opened and she passed many miles from that place. seen in the paper or books about Lola Montez, they would form © a mountain higher than Chimbarazo. s her lectures, she has experienced nothing but kindness at .:: the hands of the entire respectable press of the country. And . for this she will carry in her heart a grateful remembrance, when she is back again amidst the scenes of the Old World, And, indeed, as for that, she will carry a whole new world _back with her; for her heart and brain are full of the stupendous ~ strides ‘which freedom has made in this magnificent country. Those of you who have not had the same taste of the quality of government in the Old World, can but half relish your own glorious institutions. The pilgrim at the effete forms of Europe,. = “must look upon your great republic with as happy an eye as = the storm-tossed and ship-wrecked mariner looks upon the = first star that shines beneath the receding tempest, And now. suffer me to close ‘my lecture here with the last words of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: * Now, there are several rather common mistakes in this notice, © First, Lola Montez was never dressed off the stagein =: man's apparel in her whole life, except when she went back ~disguised in Bavaria, Second, therefore no man could have pulled the tails of her coat at Cruces, Third, she never had a whip in her hand in Cruces, and = Fourth, she was never in Cruces in her life, Before she Fifth, the whole story is a base fabrication from beginning . to end, It is as false as Mrs. Seacole's own name, Another funny thing is, that Mrs, Seacole makes this interesting event occur in 1851, whereas Lola Montez did not go to California until 1853, If I were to collect all similar falsehoods which I have , But no matter for these, Since Lola Montez commenced "Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been— A sound which makes us linger, yet farewell Ye! who have traced the pilgrim to the scene Which is his last, if in your memories dwell "og A thought which once was his, if on ye dwell 3 A single recollection, not in vain He wore his sandal-shoon and scallop-shell; Farewell! with him alone may rest the pain, If such there were— with you the moral of his strain," THE END . 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