The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-05-02
HE NAME OE LEE
Defended from Aspersions of a Niruleni
sheet.

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sheet.
The Americans blue-ribb0n ass. prize fool
and belted liar. Elliott f. sheppard has
broken out in a new place. He is mad be-
cause hotel i'm Washington is called the
Arlington. and demands that il be changed
To "The Washington" He raves about It
thus:
"Two-ihirds Of the name-the last two
enthusiastically belong 10 the Washing
ton. and all that il needed IS 10 wash the
first syllable purify il from graNestones
and deatE-and the transformation viii be
achieved from sickness TO health. from a
cemetery for the dead 10 an inn for the Nv
iug. from treason to patriotism, from a hale-
ful monument 10 a murderer Of mankind 10
"A grateful one 10 the father of his country
..The wretched name Of Lee has been a
gloomy. conceited. disloyal shadow in our
national history. wherever petied ana
cOurted and trusted, and it il time to have
il forever obltcrated.
.Charles Lee was "A coward, and was
halted by Washington in an eNentiul battle
of the revolution. Just as defeat was setting
down upon him, and victory was rescued
from his angry Incompetence.
Arthur Lee was the secret maligner and
traduccr Of Franklin, the counirl's great
Minister 10 all Europe
And Robert T.. Lee was the arch mill
tarv traitor who seized his mother by the
throat and did his best and worst to stran-
de her
II i, probably useless to give information
10 Nandcrbilt's tool son-in-law; but the
truth of history il that Charles Lee was not
coward. but "A brave. accomplished, but
unprnciplcd adycnttlrer; and probably
there il no editor of patcnt-Odtsidc weekly
Elliott that
Charles Lee was not related in any way 10
Robert +. Lee. rs to Arthur Lee, he was
merely am able. patriotic and earnest man
with "A bad TEMPER lie was no ''sccrei
malignCr'' ofFranklin. but his quarre with
him was open and his attacks were not
made cOycrtly. if they were made I'M
Justly. But as 90 the "wretchcd name OF
Lee" being gloomy, concelted, di'loyal
shadow in our national history wherever
pcited and courted and trusted did this
raYing fool never hear Of Richard Henry
Tee. the great patriot and statesman who
was among the very first 10 raise bod
voice in protest against British tyranny,
WHO put hiWself at the head Of an assOcia-
ton 10 prevent the enforcement Of the stamp
act. and who dared the wrath Of the King by
forcing Tory tax collector 10 deliver up
his commission at the point Ofthe sword II
was this same Richard Henry Lee who hrst
suggested the organization of the colonies
which brought about the American rcyolu-
ton. who served his country with singular
zeal and fidelity during all that trying pc
Rod. aud died. leaving a tame which has
never been touched 10y the breath of detrac-
ton until asperscG by Elliott Sheppard.
And dill Nanderbits fool sOn-in-lOw ever
hear the "Wrctchcd name Offrancls Light
font zee. A signer of the Declaration Of In
dependence. patriot and a statesman or
did the ''wretched name Of "Light-horse
Harry Lee ever come under his eye or pen
citrate into the cayernOus recess
es of his mighty ear That brave
and dashing cavalier who yanqul-hcd
rarletOn and whose skill, genius and Intro
pidity in many battles made him one of the
most conspicuous of the Revolutionary sol
diers-did Elliott never her of him. Inc
man whose distinguished services and
ability made him worthy 90 be chosen by
Congress 20 deliver an Grafton IN memory
Of Washington. and who first applied To
him the famous phrase, FIRST IN war; hrst
i'm peace. and first in the hearts Of his coun-
trNmen'-is that the "wrctched name of
Lee" which has cast black and dislOyal
shadow wherever it has appeared in
our history? And Robert l.. Lee.
the son Of 'Light-lIorse Harry
the man i'm whose veins fOwed the
blood Of the trIe-t. the braNCst and the
n0blest Of Revolutionary patoiots, was the
Greatest and the n0blest Of a name which
had been borne without a stain upon 1t by
any Of his blood from the beginning Of our
cointry's history. The wretched name of
Lee" has been borne by men singtllarly
brave. gifted. high-souled and patriotic.
Nowhere can one man having in his veins
drop Of Robert f. Lees blood be found who
was not tine soul Of honor and Of chiyalry.
lie comes OF "a family remarkable for the
sneular!y large nImber Of IFS great and
GOOD men which il has given 20 the country,
and not one among them who has not been
an honor 10 his country and his name.
Nashville American.