The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-02-10
rooahontas in the Market
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Historical investigation is always play
ing sad havoc with the best preserved le-
pends and taking the dignity out of, le-
&endary heroes and heroines
-soua stimes, it Is true rescHing from ig-
aominy come Bluebsard Of Hsnfy, some
eeounirel Of Richard, or some disrepu
liable Rentlenan Of more sncisht times
like Nero OF DoaitiAn. The nsurnful
act is that in history we caA be quite
sure Of Rething, for the writers Of it,
from the tims Of Tac,tus. have allowed
Their feelings and fanciss to esver theirpa-
Reswlth paradox until Lord haeaulaycsp
ped the clinAx by denalishisg the long
SssAblisAsd repue.s;oa IL FrisAA william
Psna. Then Mr. Hepwsrth Dixsa built
o up again, or thought that he lad done
se-his aptagsaist proving to have bsen
MreHg in scnae things and right In sthers
and 80 the Muddle has continued, and
is likely to continue for several centuries
10 oems So long % partisans write his
Sory, we SHALL have no hirtory 10 trust
20 long % history is written by men like
Gibbon or Voltaire or Name, we may
like 60 read il, bat we can never be sure
of ear facts. Hven the Judicial severity
of Mr.. Hildreth. our finest American his
torian, did not save him 'from occasional
illibsrality and injustice. 1t 10 danger
Gus either to hate or to be in love with
cur heroes or heroinss. 3tt7f ieT
We confcss, however, TO . sort of affiec-
&ion foc the Princess Pocahentas-hers
was such pleasant and romantic story
but We are beginning to lose ell confidence
in the American Indians; though why
wesshould ever have had any, conf dence IN
theHLin the dignity Of their braves and
the beautyof their women-it would
puzzle as TO sxplain. AS Q general rule2
like NEST Tsavsges, our aborigiAes treated
their womsa badly, and seon 20 have
had no special and marked affection for.
their ehildrsA The daughter of Pow
hatan-thst sweet, pretty, fascinating,
artless, and aGeetioAats eirl-accordlng
tothe Fccent researches Of Mr.. Neil, turns
out to have been "a wanton young girl.
sometines fesoftiDg to the fort; of the
age thsn Of ter or eleven yesrs, getting
the boys forth with her into the market
place, and making them wheel, falling
on with their hands, turning their heels
upward, whom she would follow and
wheel so herself, naked as she was, all
the fort ever" This is pleasant picture
for Virginian to contemplate, and per-
haps Congress will order it's transfer to
immortal canvas, or enduring bronze.
Then ait AFRO turns out that Mr.. John
Rolfe was ono of rude education, man
ners barbarons and cursed generation"
who only married the Princess, If he
married her at all, to gain possession of
her fathers although it is further
stated that no evidence of legal mar
rage could ever be discovered. There
will be weeping and wailing among the
first families at this disclosure There
will be SORROW and lamentation at this
sudden extinction of a royal ancestress.
There will be Indebtedness in Roanoke,
if any Randolphs are left there. There
was not long ago, man in Canada who
claimed to be descended from Charlie
magne but nobody seemed to care much
about HIM and he has never. we-believe,
startedEa palace But the Randolphs were
at least thought to be baronial. They
need not, however, take this disclosure
or exposure, or whatever it may be, too
much to heart. There are great many
barons, we dare say, whose family trees
would hardly bear a critical examination
of the roots There are a great many
apocryphal women in history from whom
it would be no credit to be descended
and Pocahontas appears to be one of
them-that is all If the Virginia poo
pie had not Dragged SO Justify about
their royal ancestress, we should never
have heard, perhaps, of her ground and
lofty tumbling in tho market place. a If
it is a wise child that knows its own
father, it must be the perfection of wis
dom to know ones own great-great- grand
mother. Let US be not too inquisitive l.
let US be shady and we shall not be
ashamed / aa 20 .....s.-. .,f..,r
1t matters but little, if man but do
his work well IN his day and generation,
who his ancestors were. Of one thing he
may be sure--ancestors he most certainly
had. He is of as long descent as any of
his fellow creatures, be they who they
may The poorest and most obscure man
q has had just as many grand fathers as
the richest and most iillustrious We all
may have had relatives in Assyria, Greece,
Rome, Carthage; we all may have royal
blood in our veins, if we did but know
it: but of one thing zoe are sure; if we
did know it we Should say nothing
about it. We don't like the stock-N.
Y Tribune
It is not generally known, says the
Pontiac Gazette, that the horse which SC
choroc ~ bo-oro