The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-04-26

once made an effort to induce Congress
to appropriate sum sufficient to erect
a suitable monument to the memory of
Key, but failed. The Maryland Leg
islature on one occasion declined TO
pass similar bill ON the ground of a
lack of funds.
1t is the general opinion of the Am
erican public that the national govern
ment should erect suitable memorial
to the memory of the patriotic citizen
who produced the only national All
them that contains patriotic sentiment
practically expressed, but in the mat
ter of purely national movements our
country is very slow, as eighty years
have elapsed since the production of
the song, and fifty-one years since the
death of its composer. The late James
Lick, wealthy Californian, left a be-
quest for the erection of a suitable
memorial 10 this distinguished Mary
lander. In the past few years a Key
Monument Associationn has been
formed in our State for the purpose of
erecting and defeating to his memory
suitable shaft, and it becomes the du-
ty IF every citizen of our common
wealth to aid and encourage this en-
terprise to the best of his ability and
means.
1t is only in response to the sugg, s.
tions of the most ordinary sense of APP
probation that our government should
erect in Washington monument suffi-
GENTLY imposing to certify nations
esteem of the man and of the sublime
production he gave as an endless in
heritance to the American people in
the song of 1.-THE Star Spangled Ban
ner."
CHARLES l.. SIMPLIFY,
Pikesville, Md.
ANOTHER BIOGRAPHY.
We are pleased to give our readers u
brief biography of the above pleasing
writer, written by a close friend some
time ago. Mr.. Shipley promises many
interesting articles for the CITIZEN.
Zone of the most promising young
writer's of the State to-day, is Charles
l.. Shipley, of Pikesville, Nd, who en-
joys the well-earned reputation of being
i'll point of ears, one of the most ac-
cOmplished students and vivid writers
on American history that Maryland
has produced. Especially on the SUBJ
ject of military history has his genius
displayed itself, in series of articles
that were published about two years
ago, in the columns of the Baltinorea,s,
embracing the following subjects:
1.-THE Death Wound of Stonewall Jack
son." "Memoir of Turner Ashby,"
"Incidenls and "reminiscences of
Robert E. Lee" death of Wilkes
Booth"
This series of articles, relating to
men and events of the late civil war,
and being generally described without
fault or error, were commented upon
in the most fiattering terms by the
thousands that read them. On State
history he is always fine and vivid
writer, and for his article on the
Maryland Line at Long Island" re-
Gently published in the leading paper
of his native county, he received the
compliments of the Maryland Society
of the Revolution. He has also contrib.
uted valuable general and local articles
to the press of his county and ether pa
pers throughout the country, which
has been read with widespread inter-
est. In politics the young historian is
Democrat, it being his proud boast
that his immediate family has support
ed the Democratic party since its birth
in 1900, when his grandfather cast his
first ballot for the Jefferson electors,
his father casting his first vote for
Martin Var Buren,, and he himself for
Grover Cleveland in 1884. Mr.. Shipley
is descended from number of the old
colonial families of the State, and
quite number of his ancestors figured
in the stirring events of the Revolu-
tionary period and the more darker
period of the old French and Indian
War of 1850"