The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-31
He Declares That McGilliuay Was Not a Leaned Man and Could Not Have Written the Letters Attributed to Him by the His torians.

bers that he was forced to send his children back to the Nation by f1e- 1 gro man named, Charles. Charles lived with and about me for years, and I have heard him and other who
 corroborated him tell it often. Sophy
 was the eldest of the two.
 So you see, you and differ widely
 as to the time Alexander Mcdulivray
 came into existence. because Alexander McGiliivray's mother was not the
 daughter of F'renchman or . French of1cer She was a full-blooded Tus- kegee Indian. Your history says Al- exander McGillivray was the hrsf
 born of Lauchian McGillivray and Se- hoy Marchand. l speak nothing but the truth when tell you my oppor- 1 tunities for information on this sub- ject have been much better than yours and that sophy was the eldest child ana an own sister to Alexander, and that will do away with too much dreaming from books and papers
 Your history says that the mother of Tate and weatherford was an own sister of Alexander McGillwray. will now tell you how you have been led | into that error: see that you speak of the Wind tribe of Indians and that l you give Barrent Deboys' version of l 1t; he never could tell the difference between clan as family or tribe. have before this in one of my letters to Mir. Hooper tried to explain this family arrangement. The Creeks were laid off in famIlies or clans. as was the Scots with their Campbells, their Mc- Gregors, their McPhersons and so on, with this difference: The Scotch clans had just as many privileges as theif numbers and the strength of their arms would allow them. The privileges of 1 the Indian clans were prescribed by 1 tfeir laws but the Wind family or clan. were always allowed more than | the Bears, Partners and others; and any of these families speaking of the family to which they belonged claimed kin with the whole family as brother,
 sister, aunt or uncle. and at the same 1 time be no ways related by blood
 WAS arGILLIyRAY AN
 EDUCATED MANI And as to what family Tate and Mo. GllIMray belonged. I do not pretend l to say. though am certain that's the way the relationship came about. for ! never heard of the mother of McGllli- yray being crossed upon the French l until read it>-in your history. I al. i ways understood her to be a full In. | dian and the mother of Tate and | weath erford to be Q half breed. and | the most interesting woman in the na. l ton in her time.
 see in your history for the first time I ever heard of such thing thai Alexander McGillivray was an edpcat- | ed man. That was news to me, as il r would have been to him. could he have
 seen 1t In his day. The letters In your
 history purporting to be eroEn him arc
 we'll written and show eonclusively l that they emanated from no ordinary man. But. could the author of those | letters and McGiliivray look back they could say that the world Is as credu- tslous as in their time. If there is any l one living that can or could Identify | the handwriting of Alex F. Leslie. . | scotchman, he could easily tell whs | wrote the letters. This man Leslie dit McGliIivray's writing. and was worthy | of, so far as intellect Is concerned, thu | notice of his distinguished relative oi | our own country, General Aiexandei | HaniIItou. ''' s-'1- ---- s'--i- ''' i
 Leslie was by birth a Scotchman. HI | came to the island of Barbadoes as { young man; from thencsgto St. Augns tine F1as He was engaged in business
 with Forbes, Panthon and others; spen