Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-07

/! muSu ior Oooho' he pIOpObeu 10 10 trO'
duce areligion for women. Woman in
the Bible was nothing better from the be.
ginning to the end Of it than q concu
bine. Upon being interrupted BY party
GEORGE stated that he had paid him to do
it. The lecture was brought to close By
! q statement that he would next Sunday,
! in the same, place, deliver lecture upon
the world, the flesh, and the devil, skip.
ping The world, dealing gently with the
flesh, but going in for a good, nnmistak.
able, thorough set-to with the geatleman
of sable appointments. Betting men no
doubt will be interested in the result oi
the match, but We would choose the odds
upon George as to his appearing the vic
tor in the coming struggle. A consider.
able part of the lecture was occupied 10
reading letters from correspondents
with comments, and at the early hour of
quarter past nine O'clock, the congrege-
tion dispersed in good humor. algssl III
PocahoBtas I'm the HIarket.PIace.
Historical investigation is always play
ing cad havoc with the beat preserved le-
gends, and taking the dignity out of le-
gendary heroes and heroines-somc-
times. it is true, rescuiug from ignominy
some Busbeard of Henry, some scoun-
drel of Richard, or some disreputable
gentleman of more ancient times like
Nero or Domitiau. The mournfnl fact
is that in history we can be quite sure of
nothing, fer the writer's of il, from the
time Of Tacitus, have allowed their feel
ings and fancies to cover their pages
with paradox. until Lord Macaulay
capped the climax by demolishing the
long established reputation of William
Penn. Then Hepworth Dixon built it
up again, or thought that be had done so
his antagonist proving to have been
wrong in some things and right in 9TH
ers--and SO the muddle has continued,
and is likely to continue for several cen
turtles to come. So long as partisRns
write history, we shall have no history to
trust-so long as history is written by
men like Gibbon or Voltaire or Hume,
we may like to read it, but we can never
be sure of our facts. Even the Judicial
severity Of Mr.. Hildreth, osrfiuest Amer
lean historian, didnot save him from oc.
casional illberality and injustice. 1t ia
dangerous either to. hate or to be in love
with our heroes or our heroines. ~
We confess, however. to sort of affec-
tion for the Princess Pocahontas-h
was such a pleasant and romantic story
but we are beginning to lose all conf
dence in the American Indians; though
why we should ever had any confidence
in them--in the dignity of their braves
and the beauty of their women--it would
puzzle us to explain. As general rule,
like most savsges, cur aborigines treated
their women badly, and seem to have
had no special and marked affection for
their children. The daughter Of Powhat-
tau--the sweet, pretty, fascinating, art
less and adectionete girl-vscoording TO
the recent researches of Mr.. Neill, turns
out to have been "a wanton young girl,
sometimes resorting to the fort; of the
age then of ten or eleven years, getting
the boys forth with her into the market
place, and making them wheel, falling on
their hands, turning their heels upward,
whom she would follow and wheel go
herself, naked as che was, oil the fort
over" .~-,.. rurn a. "a si1r WnEFRr
This is pleasant picture for Virgin
ian to contemplate, and perhaps Congress
will order lie transfer TO immortal can
vas, or enduring bronze. Then Il also
turns out that Mr.. John Rolfe was Zone
Of rude education, manners bsrbsrous
and cursed generation" who only mar
ried the Princess, if he married her at
ell, to gain possession of her fathers es- |
tate-although II Is further stated that no
evidence Of legal marriage could ever
be discovered. There will be weeping
and wailing among the FIRST families at
this disclosure. There will be sorraw |
and slsusntation ct this sudden exsinc.
ton Of q royal sncestress. There will be
wretchsdness in Roanoke, If any Ran.
dolphs are left there.
There was, not long ago, man up in
Canada who claimed TO be descended |
from ChsFlemsgne; bet uobody seemed |
to care much about him and be has |
never. we believe, started q palace Bot
the RaBdolphs were at least thought TO
be baronial. They need not, however,
take this disclosure or exposure, or what
ever it may be, too much to heart There
are a great many bsrons, we dare say,
whose family trees vould hardly heaga
critical exaninAtion OF the Fooia. There
sFe great msny apocryphal women in
history from whom it would be no credit
to be descendsd-sDd Pocshontas ap-
pears to be one Of thsm-lhat il all. If
the Virginia people bad pot Dragged so
Justify about their royal aueestress, We
ohonld never have heard, perhaps, Of her
arosnd snd lofty tunblinE in the IaaF-
kst place. II it is 9 wise child that
knows its own father, it must be the per-
lection Of wisdom to know ones own
zreat-grest-great-g grandmother. Let Us
not be too inquisitivel Let Us be shady 1
ana We snail not be ashamed -. a..
II. matters bot little. II man but do
bis work we'll in bis day and generation,
Who his ancestors were or one thing
he may be sure-ancesiors he most Ger
.sisis had. He ;s g ss i5HE diestess ss
sny of bis fellow creatures, be they who
.hsT Bay. fhs po0reSt and most OBJ
seure man has had just as many grand
fathers as the richest snd the most