Slip of a Daughter

If a Daughter of the American Revolution should end a Fourth of July oration with a burst of praise for George III her audience would be justifiably startled. Last week in Macon, Ga., Mrs. Walter D. Lamar startled a convention of the Georgia division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy with an indiscretion no less dramatic. Climaxing a rhetorical eulogy of famed Rebel Jefferson Davis, Mrs. Lamar said: "Let the world know the wisdom, the kindness, the justice of the great and only President of the Confederate States of America--Abraham Lincoln!"

The Daughters of the Confederacy gasped. Said Mrs. Lamar:

"It was just one of those slips."

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