The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-05-09
The Name Of Lee in Our History.

PAinD-LOOA1 dlu 0ClUSu AldiJ LIlllOuO
f. Sheppard, has broken out in a
new place. He is mad because a
hotel IN Washington is called the
* Arlington" and demands that it
be changed to "The Washington"
He raves about it thus:
Twe-thirds Of the name-the last two
syliables--already belong to the Wash
ingtOn, and all that is needed is towash
the first syllable-purify it from grave
stones and death-and the transforma-
ton will lbe achieved from sickness to
health, from acemetery for the dead 10
an inn for the living, from treason to pa
triotism, from hateful monumentto a
murderer Of mankind to agrateful one
to the father OF his country.
The wretehed name of Lee has been q
gloomy, coneeited, disloyal shadow in
our national history, wherever petted
and courted and trusted, aud it is time
to have it forever obliterated.
Charles Lee was a coward, and was
halted by Washington in an eventful
battle of the revolution, just as defeat
was setting down upon him, and victory
was rescued from his angry incompe-
tcnce.
Arthur Lee Yves secretmaligner and
traducer Of Franklin, the country's great
minister to all Europe.
And Robert E. Lee was the arch mil
itary traitor who seized his mother by
the threat and did his best and worst to
strangle her.
1t ds probably useless to give in
formation to Nanderbilt's foolson-
in-law; bat the truth of history is
that Charles Lee was not O coward,
but "a brave, accomplished, butun-
principled adventurer; and proba-
bly, there is no editor of a patent
outside weekly in the country who
couldn't tell Elliott that Charles
Lee was not related in any way to
Robert E. Lee. AS to Arthur Lee,
he was merely an able, patriotic,
and earnest man with bad tenn
per. Hewasno "serret maligner"
of Franklin, but his quarrel with
him was open and his attacks were
not made covertly, if they were
made unjustly. But as to the
'"wretched name of Lee" being a
gloomy, conceited, disloyal shadow
m our national history wherever
petted and courted and trusted" "
did this raving fool never hear Of
Richard Henry Lee, the great pa
triot and statesman who was among
the very first to radse bold voice
in protest against British tyranny
who put himself at the head of an
ASSOCIATION TO prevent the enforce
lnent of the stamp act and who
dared the wrath of the king, by
forcing u Tory taxlcollector to de.
liver up his commission at the
point of the sword 1t was this
same Richard Henry Lee whofrst
suggested the organization of the
colonies which brought about the
American revolution, who served
his country with singular zeal and
fidelity during all that trying pc,
riod, and died, leavinganame which
has never been touched by the
breath ofdetraction, until asperseC
by ElliottSheppard. And did Van
derbilt's fool son-in-law ever hea1
the wretched name" Of Francis
Lightfoot Lee, signer Of the Dec
laration Of Independence, patrio
and statesman? Or did tn,
{ "wretched name of Light-Hors'
Harry" Lee ever come under hi
, eye orpenetrate into the cavernou
recesses of his mighty ear? Tha
brave and dashing cavalier VIII
vanqluSshed Tarleton and who's
skill, genius and intrepidity il
| many battles made him one of tn
/ most conspicuous Of Revolutionar.
soldiers did Elliott never hear Q
7 him? Theman whose distinguishe,
/. services and ability made him woI