The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-08-27
IFor the Dispatch, through K. A. bfNe8' r1''tI
Rev. Edward ID. Seita's Farewell 90 "
w. III. and Captain John R1nftn.

Every reader OF the Dispatch has been
impressed with the devotion OF !" W. W..
n }, TO the memory OF Captain Jshn Smith,
and no one would charge him with assump-
tion II he should use the language OF the
Psa,mist. and say II behaved myself as
though he bad been my brother
In controversy Of his own seeking. he
now wishes to be Excused from further
participation in this discussion, "and it only
remains for me to make a few explanations
aud say farewell. :,
A few wears ago, in the company o'
Strahan. the well-known London pupils"ci'
| visited the ruins OF ancient churches Ia
fhe county OF Wicklow, Ireland, An "'o
woman volunteered to he our guide TO tue
different poirts OF interest, ana as Sne
walked along she continued Snittins
stocI;np and moving her tongue s"iiec,
,hon tho needles in her hands Shc haa
manr wonderful stories about St. 'heVlh
I'D =, bcr wor,hcs. Asking Ii she always
" ,n the truth, she quickly replied.
:. Smrcly do; but to please the many Nisl-
tors 7 n0gnify it a little" AltAoush u
may offend ."W. W. H." l sun 40 thinh
that John Smith magnifed the truaa.
Let me recapitulate the iacts lScsen'eu
and fortify my position:
x,,,ru ~ zoos SMITH TX 1924
SAWS that while prison. says ne WAS RuataM r ~
su,raeS him" He had lows." Had bread az yei.-
're h,cad and ycnison ison " that would serve
~ mn "a, mon could de-t,ocnty men," &c Was
,nnr" He Was sen, 10 sent TO jamestown With
jamestown with four ftoeise men.
mtn.
LIE SOMEWHERE
smith, in 1908. says hci smith. In 1877, ~ats
wac taken nrisoner while different story In his
,narchinr IN advance of" New England TraiA"
his with lie writes: IL Is TRUE Ia
Ina,,n r,iJe. our greatest extrcIeity.
'" In 1874 his History they Shot me- slew three
x,a,.s that his two com. nf my men. and Dy inc
n.ninns were slxiu, asfoIly of them that Bss1.
supposed, sleeping by theitooH me prisoner.
canoe while he. "hy fowl
inr sought them vic'ua.
Smith. IN 4. u. lesI.I In 1926. after midsuni-
49, " he died in hstmer, the Virginia Com
!. ,dver,is.ncnt for theIpauy of London. In pub
inexperienced planters oil Iiicatioh Prepsam .no
In IN. wear OF our irp preston that the popu-
ord 600 they were Imitation not large. by
L;r1niai ahout seven or n ensus taken i'll Febru-
.,rSt thousand Eugli>hiaiy- 1923. o. s., there
tsSfc, emily well furnish were only twelve hundred
na with ,no:t necessaries "Iand Seyenty-sevcn men,
Al the close er the edi- women, and children In
ton from which quote. the Colony.
some one feeling that the
truth bad been magnned
100 mnch softens the
stat, Inent In these words
1.-The Company In Eng
land say seven or eight
thousand. the Counsel In
Virgins say but 22oo or ....
thereabouts."
.f,sr n f.w seutencrs Ii was Boe until Sunday, |
,n con,;nurs. "This SUI the 2lsr May. 1908, that
rs.ranity caused INV poor any one In London knew |
beginnings scorned, or 10 that S1nitf vas actns as
and then bel sells arri red in Virginia in
St.res the London Conn the summer of 1909, and
many pInecte4i him tolbrought the istelligence |
send To England silk.ith Sir Thomas Gates |
raisins nrines flax andihad been appointed Lieu |
other articles, and con- tenant Governor.
cludes "Sow because II Smith certainly Bagni- |
cent not their ships fl fled the truth.
iraught home, with these "Crsddt 1ud6as AD- |
com modities. they kindly petid."
write to me, II we failed.
the next return. they
would leave us there H.
banished men,