Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-09-05

SIR: have just seen an article In the Star OF
the 4th inst, apparently editorial, and based on
derived information, concerning Miss Anna Ella
Carroll, who has recently commenced the publica-
ton Of work in the New York Crusader, entitled
"A Warning to Americans"
| You make quotation from the Crusader of the
2lst July respecting her genealogy which is in
deed erroneous, so far as it makes her descendant
of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and niece of the
Archbishop of the same name. This was an inno-
cent error of the editor, who had received the inn
| preston by some MEANS and he inserted il with
| out consulting her. and of course without her
knowledge; but in the very next issue-and
| which a whole week before your animadver-
sions appeared-appeared the correction with Mr..
| Casas apology This was the issue of the 28th,
which you skip clean over, back to the erroneous
paragraph, and comment upon il as lift had never
been corrected. Is this your justice TO an editor
Is this your courtesy to ladyY
You tay you have " the highest authority for
stating that the Miss Anna Ella Carroll named
above is in no way connected with or related to
the family Of Charles Carroll of Carroton or with
Archbishop Carroll" ] am an old Maryander,
and have known something Of these families from
my childhood, and this is the first time I ever
heard the connexion disputed know not what
you call the highest authority, but venture to
| predict that respectable person will deny the
| fact over his own name But, really Miss Carroll
does not consider that to have been descendant
of Charles Carroll Of Carrolton-as highly and
justly as he was distinguished-she would on that
account have had any additional any higher, honor
| to boast of-bcleving she derives a higher honor
from the ancient Carroll family, their common an
cestry, and from other honorable and distinguished
families, unconnectcd with the CAROLS, from which
| she is descended.
You do not say where or by whom ii has been
| alleged that Miss Carroll was ever Roman Catho-
| lie. She never said she had been, nor have ever
seen 1t SO stated anywhere else than in your
columns
/ have been intimately acquainted with Miss
Carr oils father all my lifetime. / also knew his
father, Colonel Henry James Carroll, acknowledged
| to be one of the most chivalric and accomplished
| gentlemen in the State, and well known among the
distinguished politicians Of his day. was, also,
acquainted with the brother Of Colonel Carroll,
Captain Michael b. Carroll of the United States
Navy. He was brave and gallant officer, gen
teman without reproach. The only surviving
sister of these gentlemen is the dignifed and
highly respected widow of Edward Ii. Calvert,
Esq, grandson of the sixth Lord Baltimore; she
now resides at the old and beautifully improved
family seat "Mount Airy" in Prince Georges
county, Maryland.
Miss CAROLS father, Thomas King Carroll, Esq,
was, some years ago, Governor of Maryland. A
more estmable, honorable, high-minded and pol
ished gentleman is nowhere to be met with In
decd, never knew man possessing fewer faults
and greater store of sterling virtues than Gov
ernor Carroll. His father was Roman Catholic
by neutrality-suspicious. might say with equal pro-
priety, he was such by INTERCHANGEABLE, having
married Presbyterian lady, and lived in part
of the State where there were no Roman Catho-
lies, their children received their religious educa-
ton at the hands of their mother, and within the
1 a.C4l If-y-
J. CAROLS brother Captlin Michael b. Carroll
continued in the faith-the Roman CathoHc-of
their ancestors during his life, as also does his
worthy and amable son. Henry J. Carroll, ESQ, who
now resides at the old family manor, in St. Mary's
county, and directly at the mouth of the Patux-
ent river. This ancient family manor, as have
understood from the best authority, and doubt not
was an entailed estate through Charles Carroll Of
Carrollton upon the father of Governor Carroll,
and that it was purchased of the latter by Captain
Michael Carroll, his uncle. The burial place of
this family was the old churchyard at St. Inigoes,
near the old city of st. Marys.
| Miss CAROLS Protestant ancestors were of the
highest respectability. Her fathers mother was
wealthy heiress whose paternal ancestors, like my
own sought an asylum in Maryland from Roman
Catholic persecution. Her father, Captain Thomas
| King, was a man of uncommon moral courage He
set his face like flint against every species of in
| Justice and oppression. A little while before the
American Revolution, SO indignant was he at the
unjust and tyrannical exactions Of the Church Of
England, that although possessing alarge fortune,
! and those taxes would scarcely have been felt by
him, he possessed also the sterling virtue to sub
| NIT 10 Imprisonment, together with my own grand
father Captain David Polk, rather than pay those
tyranncal exactions, and thus gave manifestation
! Of that independence Of spirit which soon after
characterized the patriots, and was really the life
and soul of the Revolution This devotion Of those
two men to principle, exerted extraordinary in
Huence in their part Of the State 1t this gen.
/ tlemans father, believe, who made a donation Of
the ground on which was erected one Of the first
Presbyterian Church edifces built in Maryland, or
as have heard it said in the United States
| Again: On her mothers side, Miss Carroll is
most respectfully and honorably descended. Her
mothers father was a man Of extraordinary scien-
ti6c attainments, and stood high in the estimation
| of the British Government, by which, before the
Revolution of the colonies, he charged with an
| important mission OF science TO this country. He
was the first believe, 10 introduce incubation OF
| smallpox, and the system Of hospitals for the pa
| tients in Maryland He settled in Baltimore where
he lived to great age, in the enjoyment Of the
highest respect and esteem ofthat whole communi.
ty, to which no citizen better. known. His
only daughter-Mrs. Carroll-was lady Of the
most exalted piety and virtue possessing every
/ grace and accomplishment calculated TO adorn her
eek, while the purity and gentleness Of her sprit
won the admiration and affection of nll who came
within the large and delightful circle Of which she
was the brilliant centre. Her mother was a
daughter Of the Rev. John Henry, niece Of the
Governor Of Maryland Of that name. Mrs. Carroll
| possessed handsome fortune. But alas what
can prudence or any other virtue avail against
msfortunesY The evil as well as the good
falls like the rain OF Heaven, upon the just as
| well as the unjust
And when sad reverses swept over a large and
most interesting and amiable family, which had
been reared in afilucnce, would you intimate that
il was dsgraceful or degrading for one Of them
q young but courageous and energetic girl-to
spring forward and In the best way she could
which was by teaching, for which she was eminent
" qualifed--lend all her energies, physical and
moral, in aid Of the maintenance and education Of
her more youthful sisters? Why, sir, q deed more
| inagnanimous was never done by woman. II
might be well esteemed the browning virtue of a
| life Of the noblest achievements. And, as to her
teaching in this city, TO which you allude with o
sneer, her design was to organize great Iilstitu
ton worthy Of the Seat Of Government of this
/ great nation The enterprise failed but time has