Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-04-14

cHAc, writes:
Never was there anything so dog
gedly followed up and decried as this
matter In fact, so persiStently was
i pressed that 1t seemed that her
friends and relatives doubted not only
the episode but her identity
There is no proof that she did not
wave the dag and she certainly would
have been the last woman in Frederick
not "a have done SO. There are to-day
four women living who did wave flags.
But their names will never be known,
because they would share the same
persecution thatMrs. Frietchie endured.
On the other hand, one woman claims
the honor that belongs TO Mrs.
frtetcEie She and her friends have
for years been clamoring for rccog-
milton Now. no one doubts that Mrs,
Quantrell waved flag. as did Others
also nut that does not prove that Mrs.
Fric;ehie did not. Nor is itany reason
that the honors showered upon Mrs.
Frietchie, because Of her known
bravery and her hcresy 10 the southern
cause, were unjust,
II appears that the great objection
arose in the fact that Stoncwall Jack
son was named in connection with the
affair The southern people idoliZed.
ia fact, worshipcd him By some il
has been said that Jacksons cohorts
did not pass Barbara Frietchie's mouse.
The confederate army did certainly
pass hy her door whether they went
by way u Patrick or Bcntz streets
And her fame and name will live long
after her deegicFs are forgotten,
Mn Markers has spent great deal
~ time collecting facts 10 substRntiate
wha, he has always known 70 be the
truth ~ this famous episode OF the
civil war. hut wherever there Is
controversy on any point IN history
the public Is bound 70 have a hand In
il During bis lifetime Whittier was
himself bcset by anxious inquircrs.
who sought 20 be informed whether
the theme 81 his great poem was
myth or a reality In October, lss0.
he wrote 20 Nellie Blessing Eyster;
= had a portrait o. the good lady
EarbSra, from the sanity hand OF
DnrntbcA Dix whose life Is spent in
work. 81 love and duty, and cane
mRdc % wood from Barbara's cottage,
sent me by Dr. steiner. OF the Mary
land senate,
Whether she did All that my poem
ibcd 10 her or not. she WAS brave
aud true woman, followed the &C.
count given me IN private letter and
the papers % the time
BEYOND the few strangers who have
settled IN Frederick since the war. and
the cotcric 81 folk who believe in the
identity ~ Barbara Frietchie. for the
sake % the local history connected
with her name. there is still much in.
crcdulity regarding her.
II Is true. rs Whittier said, that Lee
marched over the mountain wall into
FREDERICK; and remained there three
days The citizens treated his half
nalicd hungry troops kindly and
every piano III town played Mary
land. Ny Maryland It's related that
a band 81 the gray coated troops, while
passing Dame Frietchie's house one
day. noticed that the boards Of the
porch were unusually clean, and
stopped 10 rest while. IL was not
long before the loyal proprictress
learned of their presence, and. rushing
out ~ the door, she raised her cane
and cried
Get you away from my house, you
lazy pacltl"
The troops withdrew. and the story
rot into camp. II was repeated SO
often as a joke that Barbara became
famed as a shrew before Lee withdrew