Arizona republican., 1898-08-25


 the continental congress began in 1774, and whose writings and addresses did 90 much for the colonies. He wrote the Memorial to the People of British America" an argument of permanent literary value and one which bore rich fruit for liberty at the time. He is be ieved to have written the Address to he King" which so clearly embodied he principles for which the colonies were striving, and which offered the crown an honora ble-and, as it proved, profitable-way out of all govern mental difficulties. He had the lasting honor of introducing in the continen- al congress the resolutions for inde- )endence; was several times elected to the United States congress and was Jnited States senator from 17S9 until 1792.
 His younger brother. Francis Light 'oot Lee, outlived him three years, dy- Ing at Richmond in 1797 The latter vas signer Of the declaration of in dependence and was, from first to last, )ne of the most active of Virginia politicians.
 Some twenty years later in point ce lime came Henry Lee, Of 9 collateral branch of the same house, and also a native of Westmoreland county. Light Horse Harry Lee" they called him, and he name clung to him while he lived md sheds romantic glow upon him wen yet. Henry Lee was friend and ;tanch supporter of General Washing ton, the commander 0; Lees region" and a sharer in all the glory or Q sue .essful revolution. He was elected governor of Virginia in 1792 and held he office for three years, in which ime he gave proof of the national faith that was i'll hiln-as contradistin 5uished from devotion to state rights by helping to suppress the "whiskey rebellion" in Pennsylvania in 1794. He vas member Of congress from 1799 o 1901, and lived to write his Me noirs of the War in the Southern De- partment."
 Light Horse Harry Lee died at Cumberland Island Ga, i'll 1918.
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 There was another Lee. not related 70 tie Virginia family, who came from y experience, offering himself to the con mental congress as a leader of their 'ause in the field. This was General Charles Lee, who was jealous because Washington and not he was selected IS the commander-in-chief. But he accepted a major generals commis- sion, and was source of trouble from he start. In 1776 he was captured CUT miles from his army. and was not ,Xchanged until two years lGter. and lbou- the first thing he did wAs to Gis- )bey shingtOns orders it the battle If Monmouth, for which he was sen enced to a years suspension from the military service, and he was afterward lisn,issed altogether by congress. He lied in Philadelphia in 17S2-a bril- iant but a disappointed and soureG nan, aged and decrepit at 51.
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 Arthur Lee. another brother of Rich lrd Henry Lee. was an American agent England in ITO. commissioner to France in 1776, a diplomat in several European courts until 17S0. and q member of congress from 17S2 to 17S5 He died in 1792
 In 1774 Ann Lee came to America rom England, and in 1776, when oth- ITS Of her name were trying to estab- ish nation, she was busy founding church-or a society It was the American Society of Shakers She lied in 17S4. Her followers still refer -o her as Mother Ann"
 Alfred Lee was born at Cambridge, Mass, in 1SO7 He was preacher in he Protestant Episcopal church. and 'ose to be bishop. He wrote ''Life If the Apostle Peter,' which is well ragarded, and died in 1887 at Whining on, Del.
 Robert E. Lee was a son Of Light Horse Harry" Lee-it might almost be aid son of his old age, for the fla nous cavalryman was 51 years old at he time of young Roberts birth. He. co, was born in historic Wastmore- and county. Virginia. and was two years the senior Of Lincoln--and Of Gladstone, and of Professor Blackie, md of Mary Cowden-Clarke, and of Tennyson, and all the rest of that great class of 16C9'
 Titzhugh Lee is a nephew of Robert 2. Lee. and followed the fortunes of his distinguished uncle and of his native itate in the war of the rebsliOn. but accepted. as did the former. all the re- suits of the war. and has since served Virginia in number Of official capac- ties. To him perhaps as much as to my other man may be credited that firm reunitiDg of the north and south, which existed even before the war with Spain disprOved a favOrfte theory abroad that the United States of Amer ca is congiomerate nation, held to- gether by a rope of sand.''
 The genius of the name seems to be military and political rather than lit arary CT artistic. And if the late con- ul general to Cuba should be made governor of Havana it would be his military and political rather than his 'rtistic resources which would be lrawn upon.
 Perhaps no other name has been so continuously identified with the his