The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-19
.oio,t ancl, historical undermining. THO beau.

lv reject such historical undermining. Tho beau-
tiful story CT FLonA MCDONALD q Scotch laass'
who saYed tic Chcval:crs lfo, and ended her days
in yort, Carolina, is now enyolopcd in highland
,,ist Bnt. worse than all-grcatcst OF horesies-
tho ynnkcos. having conquered the South, arc now
hecnnnr to make war upon her past history; and,
b; way OF commencement: thoy NATURALLY attacA
tho very cornerstone of Virginia-no less than
Tho existence of PocAHoNTAs. Captain sAhfTH'
tho greatest of all tho John Smiths, they say Was
not a. reliable gentleman, and invented tho Wkolo
story of powHATAN and PocAHoSTAs. A Mr.
CHARLES DEASE, Massachusetts antiquRry IN q
recont article in tho North american Reuiew, is
guilty of this sacrilegious profanity Of course,
the entire press OF the North at once takes up Inc
..ry. determined to rob tho Old Dominion of tho
very first of her F.F. VS.. We knew, when we
first saw this announcement, that D1r. DEANE
would "catcil it" from our Virginia friends. Tho
Richmond 1gllig, of the 18th, in speaking OF the
subject, says:
Such is New England's envy and Jealousy TO-
1,.rl. te South and all that is Southern, that she
cannot bear to contemplate anything that stamps
lnstre upon our history or adds to our ln1uenco 60
and prosperity 1t would rob us, II 1t could OF al
the goros of the past strip US o. P[esen
more Territorial dependen' y, upon the Govern
mont. These same writer's will soon probably turn
their attention to George Washington and II they
shaI not be ablo to establish that no such man
ever existed they will probably undertake TO prove
that lie was oe Yankee birth and lineage.
This is 4. very mild rebuke, and by no means, VIC
take it. tho last word that viii be said on this sEb-
ioct. We hayo, Of course nothing TO say on SO
purely Virginian theme. Our friends along the
James arc abundantly able to take caro- OF them
selves, and of Pocahontas too.
We will now conclude our long catalogue OF
doubts by saying that we doubt nothing. We be-
lieyo in tho she-wof, King ALERED's pancakes and
the beautiful PocAHoNEis; and we are certain that
chillron learned more of Greek and Roman his
tory in HEnoDorus, Ivy, RoLLrN and GOLDSMITH
than they have learnci ever will learn, in ME-
BuHn and ARNOLD, THRLwALL and GRoTE Tho
old facts, or what were SO considered having been
nnsettled. what remains there now to teach the
inouiring Young mind? What kind Of mental
trimming can you expect, when you tell child that
the whole world is mistaken i'll observing Christ
mas on the 25th Of December; that CHRIST VAS not
born ON that day, etc., and that it is inistcring to
superstition either to burn frc-crackors or eat
mincc-pc on that day Is it moi better to let tho
child lean on ccrtaintics Doubt and childhood,
as we have said, are incompatibles. Let him be-
levo these things implicitly, and we'll for him if,
in after ifo he is permitted to retain the faith OF
his childhood. Doubt and error will assert their
sway soon enough; but it is best, when they do
come, tlat the youth should be clad in the panoply
of faith. and thus not neccsstate an instant un-
o,oo+;ou;nn sr,rrenier of Tho citadel.