The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-11-15
AMERICAN FLORA McDON.
AID.
A Distinct Public Service Rem
dered by Mr.. Mclean in Caus-
ing this Story to be Written


dered by MIR. Mclean in Caus-
ing this Story to be Written.
Charlotte Observer.
A hearty welcome from North
Carolina people and all lovers Of
romantic history is due Flora
Macdonald in America" writer
by J. P. Mclean, Phi. D.. Gaelic
scholar of no little note who has
his home in Ohio, and published
by Angus w. Mclean, ESQ, Of
Lumberton. Flora MacDonaid,s
act in saving from capture Prince
Charles Edward, leader of the
second and final Jacobite insur-
rection in Scotland, has made her
name famous. 1t is the deliber.
ately expressed opinion of DR.. ]
P. Mclean, however, that her
American career reveals IAN even
stranger story" and a greater
heroism" at the age of 81
than thirty years previously
This story DR.. Mclean proceeds
to tell. The Highlanders, after
fighting the Hanoverian DYNASTY
at home until the British isles
could hold them no longer, fought
for the Hanoverian dynasty in
the early period of the American
revolution. They were guided
by their ancient spirit of accord
ing loyalty without stint where
loyalty seemed due, and their
chief source of inspiration was
Flora Macdonald. The ensuing
struggle, cut short by the decis-
i've American victory at Moore's
Creek Bridge, not far above VIII
mington, on February q, ITO,
is we'll described.
Having seen no satisfactory
account of Flora McDonald's life
in North Carolina" says the
author in an Introductory note
i was moved to make thorough
investigation, the result of which
published in The Celtic Monthly,
Glasgow, for the year 1900. By
request of the editor of The
American Monthly Magazine, |
abridged the account, and the
same appears in the issue of that
journal for August, 1900. Then |
dismissed the subject from nv
mind with no thought of ever pur-
suing it again." He continues:
by special invitation on the
morning of February 20, 1909, |
entered the hospitable mansion
of Hon. Angus w. Mclean, Lum-
berton, N. c., to pay him visit.
Within less than an hour after nv
appearance complete arrange
ments had been entered into, by
which | was to rewrite my pro-
duction on Flora Macdonald, and
Mr.. Mclean was to finance the
enterprise. Ihad no hesitancy on
entering into the compact. be-
cause | knew that North Caro-
lima contained a very large High
land Scotch population, where
the name of Flora Macdonald is
venerated, to say nothing of a
similar people scattered through
out the various States of the
Union, besides the same race in
Canada.
1T is but a natural consequence
that Mr.. Mclean should be spec
tally interested in Flora Mac
Donald. His greatgandfather,
John Mclean, emigrated from the
Isle of Null to North Carolina.
and the clan of Mclean, of that
period, was still a strong partisan
Of the House of Stuart. Besides
this, Mr.. McLean's great-grand-
father, Col, James MacQeen. was
a granddaughter of the heroine of
this story"
| The volume has some Illus
trations of striking interest. tits
handsomely printed and bound.
MIR. Mclean has rendered dis
tlnct public service by causing
this story to be written and given
to the world.