...appears in Townsend 's story. Further, Lee, writing to Mrs. Lee a few weeks later, bids his son Custis 'consult his own judgment, reason, and conscience as to the course he must take,' which does not seem to fit well with the argument that his children would ' be ruined,...

...It may not always be so dark, and he may in time pardon our sins and take us under his protection. Tell Custis* he must consult his own judgment, reason,...every man must settle for himself and upon principle. Our good Bishop Meade has just come in to see me. He opens the convention to morrow, and, I understood...

...It may not always be so dark, and he may in time pardon our sins and take us under his protection. Tell Custis* he must consult his own judgment, reason, and conscience as to the course he may take. 1 do not wish him to be guided by my wishes or example. If I have done wrong, let him do better. The...

...TO GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE). To his wife he wrote, a little later : "... Tell Custis [his eldest son] he must consult his own judgment, reason and conscience as to the course him to remain in the Federal army. He was opposed to the policy of secession, and took no part in the...

...for several years of war." At the same time he wrote this: " Tell Custis [Lieutenant in the US Army] he must consult his own judgment, reason, and conscience...have done wrong, let him do better. The present is a momentuous question which every man must settle for himself and upon principle." Lee's eye rested now...

...It may not always be so dark, and He may in time pardon our sins and take us under his protection. Tell Custis* he must consult his own judgment, reason,...every man must settle for himself and upon principle. Our good Bishop Meade has just come to see me. He opens the convention tomorrow, and, I understood...

...take us under his protection. Tell Custis* he must consult his own judgment, reason, and conscienceas to the course he may take. I do not wish him to be...every man must settle for himself and upon principle. Our good Bishop Meade has just come to see me. He opens the convention tomorrow, and, I understood...

...in the army, as to whether he should withdraw from the Federal service. "Tell Custis," he wrote, " he must consult his own judgment, reason, and conscience...example. If I have done wrong, let him do better. It is a momentous question, which every man must settle for himself and upon principle." Colonel Lee,...

...— not even for his own son. Nearly a month after he had resigned (May 13, 1861), he wrote his wife, "Tell Custis he must consult his own judgment, reason,...every man must settle for himself and upon principle." After the war, when he was, perhaps, the most famous captain of the world, he from time to time recurred...

...brightness of God's countenance seems turned from us, and His mercy stopped in its blissful current. Tell Custis he must consult his own judgment, reason,...man must settle for himself, and upon principle." But this is not all. He was as self-sacrificial as sincere. His life had been spent in the Army. His...