The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-05-14
SHILLING A ISLANDER

that but one aspersion was ever at !
tempted concerning it, and that IN the |
History of Suffrage" some time |
called. the "Woman's Bible" by Eliza /:
beth Cady Stanton and Susan B. An !
thony, a sprinkling Of the followers
of whom we find in the South today. |
In this "Bible" we are told that Gen |
eral Lee drove his daughter, Annie |
Carter Lee, away from home because
she remained firm in her devotion
to the national cause; and for this
adherence was banished as an out
east, became a wandered, and died at
Jones Springs, N. c., homeless, be-
cause of her love for the Union, with
no relative near, and dependent for
care and consolation in her last hours
upon the kindly services of an old
colored woman" They say further
that nothing can redeemed the name
of Lee from the infamy that so justly
attaches to it."
OF course it was not necessary to
refute this falsehood, but Mr.. James
Galloway of Macon, Ca, did so some
months since. Wishing further in
L
way has persuaded Miss Mary GUSTS
Lee, the generals only surviving
child to give it, which she has done
in a recent letter published in the
Macon Telegraph.
This is the same Susan B. Anthony
for whom is named the proposed con-
stitutional amendment comforting suf-
frage on women, and who possibly
drafted it, and whose followers are
now seeking to restore negro domi-
nation in the South.
Miss Lees letter is of historical
interest for the older people of the
South. | hand you the letter and
trust you can find space for it in your
paper. r. McConathy.
Ocala, Fla, May 10. 1918.
| Miss Lees Letter
The "Cady Stanton" and Susan B.
Anthony fabrications are such / can
scarcely believe they would have pro-
mulgated such wholesale falsehoods.
AS matter of fact, while my father,
like many of the old army officers,
was not a secessionist, and hoped to
] the last that civil war might be avert
ed, we young people were much more
violent in our feelings and expires
sions, and you may be sure there was
no dissentient voice among US.
Ny father went down to Richmond
the day Virginia seeded, and my
mother was given at first only TWEEN
! ty-four hours in which to pack up and
/ dispose of her large household affairs
and the children. Packing up was go
ing on all night, nobody attempting
| to sleep, and the next afternoon we
young people were all sent up to Raw
ellsworth, an old family place some
i fifteen miles back in Fairfax county,
and where a great aunt of ours was
living, while my mother received per-
mission to remain for few days
longer.
/ The scandal is a fabrication, manu-
featured out of the whole cloth, with
out even the shadow of foundation,
and one cannot imagine how it ever
originated. My fathers character was
so pure and lofty, as we'll as winning,
and his devotion to his children so
well known, so demonstrative even,
that if he had enemies, even the bit
terest, it is universally accepted now
that he had no personal ones. So far
as Annie Carter is concerned-poor,
i gentle Annie-she adored her father,
and he adored her, partly because she
was named after his mother, whose
| memory he worshiped, and always
contributed anything that was worthy
in himself to her teachings and train
ing and influence; and partly because
as a small child Annie had stuck the
scissors into one of her eyes and ruin
ed the sight, but not the appearance
of it. Hence my father always had a
special feeling of tenderness for her,
so much so that he specially provided
for her in his will. How ignorant were
these slanderers of my fathers char
acter!
My mother was a great sufferer
from rheumatism, and hearing of the
healing virtues of "Jones Springs"
now called white Springs" managed
somehow to get down there with my
two sisters, though travelling was very
difficult at that time, and while there
dear, gentle Annie died. My mother
nursed her in sickness, day and night,
and Annie died in her arms, and
mother was broken-hearted over this
) first death of one of her seven chill
dren, and / am the last of the seven
now living.
had been left with some near rela-
tives in Virginia, and Mildred, the
youngest, was a little schoolgirl in
Winchester, until driven away by the
tide of war, when she was sent down
to "St. Marys," in Raleigh. My dear
father could not leave his post, and
was so overcome with grief over the
death of Annie, the first death in his
family.
During our war large families were
often separated, and necessarily so. /
was myself separated from mine. Just
recovering from typhoid fever, so
prevalent in Richmond at that time,
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