The age-herald., 1898-08-19
THE LEES
IN AMERICA

Virginia, in 1732. F1s lived to the age of
 62 years and died at chantilly. in his na- ! tive state-the place where sixty-eight years later lighting Phil Kearney" was killed. Lee was a member of the Virginia
 house of burgesses when Patrick Henry
 made the memorable speech, familiar to
 schoolboys, and a favorite selection in all
 books of rhetoric. The most significant
 passage was as follows: "Saesar had his
 Brutus, Charles I. his Cromwell, and | George IT, "Treason," shouted the
 chairman" "Treasonl Treason!' was
 echoed from different parts of the house.
 And George H." resumed the speaker ' with flashing eye an dunfaltering voice, "may profit by their example. If that | be treason. make the most of it?' | > One wonders how much of it was Patrick i Henry and how much was very capable | reporter, since they had no stenographers i in those days. But the inuence of the
 fiery revolutionist plainly helped to mold l and crystalize the qualities of Lee, whose 1 labors in the continental congress began | in 1774 and whose writings and addresses | did so much for the colonies. He wrote | the Memorial to the People of British 1 America" an argument of permanent lit 1 erary value and one which bore rich fruit ! for liberty at the time. He is believed to have written the Address to the King" which so clearly embodied the principles
 for which the coonists were striving, and which offered the crown an honorable-and as it proved, a proftable-way out of all governmental difficulties. He had the lasting honor of introducing in the con- tinental congress the resolutions for inde- pendence was several times elected to the United States congress and was United States senator from 17S9 until 1792. 
 His younger brother, Francis Lightfoot
 Lee, outlived him three years, dying at Richmond in 1797. The latter was a signer of the declaration of independence and was, from first to last one of the most active of Virginia politicians.
 
 Some twenty years later in point of time came Henry Lee, of a collateral branch of the same house. and also native of West moreland county. Light Horse Harry Lee" they called him, and the name clung to him while he lived and sheds a romantic glow upon him even yet. Henry Lee was a friend and stanch supporter of General Washington, the commander of Lees le- gion,' and a sharer in all the glory of a successful revolution. He was elected governor of Virginia in 1792 and held the office for three years, in which time he gave proof of the national fai-h that was in him-as contradistinguished from de- votion to state rights-by helping to sup press the ''whisky rebellion in Pennsyl- vania in 1794. He was a member of con- gress from 1799 to 1901, and lived to write his Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department"
 Light Horse Harry" Lee died at Cum berland Island, Ga., in ISIS.
 There was another Lee, not related to the XirGipia family, who came from Eng land, and brous sass n,ll'ary enper,7 ence, offering himself u congress a leader of their cause in the field. This was General Charles Lee, who was jealous because Washington and not he was selected as the commander in chief. But he accepted a major generals com mission, and was a source of trouble from 1 the start. In 1776 he was captured four miles from his army, an dwas not exchang ed until two years later and about the first thing he did was to disobey Washington's orders at the battle of Monmouth, for which he was sentenced to a years sus- pension from the military service, and he was afterward dismissed altogether by congress. He died in Philadelphia in 17S2+ ] brilliant but disappointed and soured man, aged and decrepit at 51.
 Arthur Lee, another brother of Richard Henry Lee, was an American agent in England in ITO, commissioner to France fin 1T6 a diplomat in several European courts until 17SO, and member of congress from 17S2 to 17S5. He died in 1792. In 1774 Ann Lee came to America from England, and in 1776, when others of her name were trying to establish nation, she | was busy founding a church-or a society. l It was the American Society of Shakers. l She died in 17S4. Her followers still refer to l her as Mother Ann.'
 | Alfred Lee was born at Cambridge, | Mass, in 1907. He was a preacher in the Protestant Episcopal church, and rose to be
 bishop. He wrote Life of the Apos- 1 tie Peter,' which is well regarded, and | died in 1887 at Wilmington, Del. Robert D. Lee was a son of Light Horse l Harry Lee-it might almost be said a son | of his old age, for the famous cavalryman | was 6 years old at the time of young Roberts birth. He, too was born in his- l toric Westmoreland county, Virginia, and was two years the senior of Lincoln-and l of Gladstone, and of Professor Blackie l and of Mary Cowden-Clarke and of Ten | nyson. and az the rest of that great "class
 of 1S09.Y
 Fitzhugh Lee is nephew of Robert E. 1 Lee and followed the fortunes of his Gls- | tinguished uncle and of his native state | in the war of the rebellion, but accepted | as did the former, all the results of the l war, and has since served Virginia in | number of official capacities. To him per- 
 haps as much as to any other man may be | credited that firm reuniting of north and | south, which existed even before the war | with Spain disproved favorite theory
 abroad that the United States of America
 is conglomerate nation, "held together | by rope of sand"
 The genius of the name seems to be
 military and political rather than literary
 or artistic. And if the late consul general
 10 Cuba should be made governor of Ha-
 vana it would be his military and political
 rather than his artistic resources which ] would be drawn upon.
 Perhaps no other name has been so con-
 tinuously identified with the history of the
 country. And the notable family is by
 no means extinct, since a son of General
 Fitzhugh Lee is at present an officer in
 the United States army.
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