The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-09

I woman for distress was her only crime | When asked by the king George ID 'How dare you succor the enemy of my. crown and kingdom?" She replied T only did what I would do for your ma l jesty, in the same condition-reIieve dis tress" She was under protection of Lady Primrose sent home with Malmolm Mac Loed.
 In Boswelrs Life Johnson, find the following: Monday, 18th of September, 1773, We safely arrived at Kingsburgh. and were received by the hospitable Mac donald. The lady of the house is the eel ebrated Flora Macdonald. She is a lit- tie woman, of gentle appearance un- commonly mild and well bred. The room where we lay was a celebrated one. Dr. Johnson's bed was the very one in which the grandson of the unfortunate King James II. lay on one of the nights after his failure of the rash attempt in 1745-6, while he was eluding the pursuit of the emissaries of the government, which had offered $1150,000 reward for him."
 Four years after Floras return, she married Allan Macdonald, and as al- ready stated, emigrated in 1775 to Amer ica. They settled in Fayetteville. The ruins of the house are yet to be seen as you pass from the market-house to the court house, on the right just before you cross the. creek" Not far from the law office, once occupied by John D. Eccles Esq. After a stay in Fayetteville. they removed to Cameron Hill, about twenty miles away. The people yet remember the tales the old people told about seeing her,-'a dignifed, handsome woman, to whom all paid great respect"
 But when Flora exchanged the green wales of Scotland for the soughing pines of Carolina in search of peace and quiet, 1 f<,x. ,sr-l,+ volt against English tyranny had conn menced over here. The chief of the clan of Macdonald accepted a commission as general from the royal governor (Mar- tin) in the service of his majesty, George IT., and in the strange land, the wild notes of the Scottish pibroch mingled with the alarums of the English bugles On the first day of February, 1776, Gen eral Macdonald issued his proclamation for all the true and loyal highlanders to join his standard at Cross Creek to march and unite with Clinton and Gov ernor Martin. He '--marshalled his clan their swords were thousand, their hearts were as one.
 They were met by the gallant Ameri- can forces of Caswell and Ellington at Moore's Creek, February 27, 1776, and after a desperate grapple the misguided and ill-advised highlanders met their doom in a second Culloden. General Macdonald was taken, and also Kings borough Macdonald-husband of Flora, who was a captain. Mcleod and John Campbell were killed, and the rest taken prisoners. After the release of her hus- band. broken in hopes and spirit proper ty plundered lands confscated, Flora and her husband returned to the land of the tartan" On their way home they encountered French man-of-war. An action ensued. The heroic Flora remain- ed on deck during the action and en- couraged the men. She was thrown down and her arm broken AS she was taken up from the deck floor, she re- marked: q have hazarded my life for the House of Stuart and for the House of Hanover, and I do not see that l have been the gainer by either" To the brav- cry of our sex she united the gentleness of her own; and, leaving five sons, she died March f. 179G. Her shroud was made of the sheets in which Charles Edward had slept at Kingsborough (Boswells Life Johnson), which with woman's romantic temper, she had pre- served in all her wanderings, for this express purpose.
 Foote remarks that Massachusetts has had her Lady Arabella, Virginia her Pocahontas, and North Carolina her Flora Macdonald"
 The princess last words to Flora were, Gentle, faithful maiden, l hope we will meet again in the Palace Royal"