. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. , and made a noble use of their surplusin their unostentatiousQuaker fashion. When r flour became scarce and 4; . : so high-priced as to pro- S,hibit the use of it to the ^poor, they dispensed itwith great alacrity to allwho were in need. Therewere numbers who re- ;ceivedit gratuitously and -daily in small quantitiesfrom the mills. When a :great fire consumed every-thing about them themills were untouched, andwe, who believed in a % ?special Providence, %thought they were saved \through the righteousnessof their owners. On my f
. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. , and made a noble use of their surplusin their unostentatiousQuaker fashion. When r flour became scarce and 4; . : so high-priced as to pro- S,hibit the use of it to the ^poor, they dispensed itwith great alacrity to allwho were in need. Therewere numbers who re- ;ceivedit gratuitously and -daily in small quantitiesfrom the mills. When a :great fire consumed every-thing about them themills were untouched, andwe, who believed in a % ?special Providence, %thought they were saved \through the righteousnessof their owners. On my first introduc-tion to the ladies of Rich-mond I was impressed bythe simplicity and sincerity of their manners, their beauty, and theabsence of the gloze acquired by association in the merely fashion-able society. They felt the dignity attached to personally con-ducting their households in the best and most economical manner,cared little for fashionable small-talk, but were full of enthusiasmfor their own people, and considered wisely and answered clearly any14. MRS. JEFFERSON DAY] 2IO GENERAI. ROBERT EDWARD LEE, practical question whicli would tend to promote the good of theirfamilies or their country. I was impressed by a certain ofEshness in their manner towardstrangers; they seemed to feel that an inundation of people per-haps of doubtful standards, and, at best, of different methods, hadpoured over the city, and they reserved their judgment and con-fidence, while they proffered a large hospitality. It was the mannerusually found in English society toward strangers, no matter howwell introduced—a wary welcome. In the more southern and lessthickly settled part of our country, we had frontier hospitalitybecause it was a necessity of the case. In Virginia, where the dis-tances were not so great, and the candidates for entertainment weremore numerous, it was of necessity more restricted. We were fortunate in finding several old friends in Richmond—the Harrisons, of Brandon,
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