Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-05-05
VOL. 50.
F'Om the RObesu' ian.
Historic Incident.

| Historic InCident.
MIR. FDIroR :--Keneth Stuart, frs
cousin to the Preterder, marie
Christian Mcdonald of Sky, who Wa
first cousin to Flora Mcdonald
Kenath, who ok al active part in th
rebellion OF '45. aud who was PROMISE
a high position if the cause succeeded
| fled tn this country and died 500
after wards. DR.. ID .niel Mcleod
WHO was Of Christians Suirors, joine,
the army after she discarded him, an'
| a 'terwardS came over TO America a
| surgeOn III Cornwatiis's army.
In Corn wallis'G retrea' fIOm Guilfort
to Fayetteville, DR.. Mcleod fouuG
Christian widow, and living nea
Longstreat church in Cum Derlau>
connty--renewed his suit, and the,
were without much ceremony, marie {
bT the Chaplain in DR.. Mcleod
regiment After pence, Mcleod w,:t
intended making North CAroiin., hi!
home, visited 10 return to s-cJjIaiC
for the purpose o settling up MS bust
ness, which consisted of consider
able lands aad other property IL
Sky and the adjacent islands bui
hi7 wife, still fearing the dlspic SURE
OF the government on account Of the
part he. first husband took in the
rebellion OF 10, could not g. with him
After his return to Scotland, Mcleod
found his bus ness in such a Condition
that be c"uId not again return to
I'm erica. He wrote for his wife 10
come over TO him, but .Ac refused He
fhon sent for his only chl!d, a boy of
some two OF three y'aEs of age, bu his
wife refused to let the boy go. Her
friends encouraged her in her stub
bornness. by contending that it was
not a legal marriage, because per
formed by British Chaplain, auh AS
against the laws OF the couotry, &c
In the meantime DIR. Mcleod died, and
50 the matter ended. Christian after
wards married McKinnon and lived
to an advanced age. The boy spoken
Of above was the grandfather Of
Murdoch and John Mcleod, of
Cumberland county, and of the Messrs
McLeods of Clio. S. c., He was the
only heir of Dr. Daniel Mcleod, and
they are to-day the 'egaI heirs of
whatever property he may have left in
Scotland.
By the way, don't you think the AS
sociate is getting little too sweet on
the Stuarts ? 'By all that ever [ could
read, could ever learn by tale or his
tory" the Stuart dynasty have never
done anything to entitle them to the
r"spect or admiration Of the world, but
much to abhor, Condemn and detest.
Mary wIs pretty, bat a vain, foolish
and bigoted Catholic James [ WAS
smart peInnt, Charles [ was smart
enough to let Cromwell cut off his
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debaucIee to care for anything save
his mistress, and i'll James II was con-
eentrated all the folIleJ aud faults of
his predecessors, without one redeem
ing virtue. They all believed in the
divine night OF kings. Charles Ed ward,
the Pretender, the grandeon of James
the II, waS 8 handsome looking cava-
lier, aud when that is said his charac-
ter is finished. Had he possessed the
qualification OF a general, ne might
II we succeeded but fond of pleasure,
tickle and incunstnat, he was dailying
with his mistress when he should have
been organ 'zing his army, and
the consequences were, when the
opened, the English
the Scotch at CulIoden. The hardy
Hocked to his standard,
not because th y cared for him nor
his dynasty, but becau-e they hated
the McGregors who sided with the
government, aud who was the heredI-
tary enemy Of all the other clans.
Flora Mcdonald would have deserved
more at the hunds o. her couutrynen,
had she delivered the Pretender up TO
the government who would have
wreaked their vengeance upon him,
and spared the lives Of the thousand
High!undcrs whose b:awny
carcaases wintened every cross 70 ,d
and Hamlet in Scotland. Had James
IL succeeded III brow beating the
English people, c!yiliz ttlOn would
have been retarded for years, ana
England to-day would be on par with
Italy
The collateral branches of the Stuarts
Who sprang from James l. only
4 lighter, Elizabeth, and her laughter,
Sophia, both Of whom married Ger
man princes aud whom Victoria Is d.
scendod, were mild and sensible
peoplo-gett'ag their sense 30 doubt
from, the Germans. The direct Stuart
line is extinct. The collateral branches
are numerous, a good many people III
Koheson a!aim to be descendants from
that line. SNYDER