The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-09-03

traffic in opium with tho Chinese.
Neither Hill New England stop selling
rum to the negro as long al there is mon
ey in 1t. Five hundred dollars a year TO

rum to the negro as long al there is mon.
ey in 1t. Five hundred dollars year to
the Church will hide many barrel in
| the hold of a vessel. Rev. Joe Cook de-
nounced Henry Grady and his speech in
Boston, becatss he told the truth about
the negro, and Cook vas ehesred to the
eneore, and he aossted that what he said
would be Published in over two thousand
northern papers, and would he believed
| wherever read, and all of Mr.. Gr.I~5's
clap-trap would go for naught. That is
the kind of reception that E.eY. Cook
gave Henry Grady's overture for peace.
And Rev. Theodore Cuyler says that
Rev. Cook is great and good, man, and
he has lately enjoyed his companionship
immensely. and so I am done with
Cook and Chyler, too. I have no respect
for a man who companions With 8 man
who denounced Grady's Boston speech,
and keeps on denouncing US for what we
didn't do. Rev. Cuyler wouldn't have
denounced 1t, but I am afraid he would
hire man to do his eursing.
Isaw in your paper not long aimee a
communication signed 81. NJ. D., that
proposes to knock all the romance out OF
Captain John Smith and Porahontas.
; He seems to have been travelling up the
James River with Colonel George, and
Colonel George told him that his great
grandmother told him that Pocahontas
was not her name, but it was Tetehee,
and she was not q daughter of Powhatan
that she fell in love with Homer Cas-
talwain, a white man, and this made her
Indian lover Bankee mad, and one day
while she was gathering corn lie and his
followers seized her ard carried her away
to his tribe. Castalwain appealed to
Captain John Smith for aid to recover
bis girl, and Smith got old Powhatan to
lend him some of his warriors, and they
made raid and recaptured the maid and
Bankee, too, aud Powhatan ordered Ban
kee to have his brains beaten out with a
club, and just as the club was raised to
strike the blow Tetehee threw herself in
the way and saved his iife-not from love,
| but from pity-and she soon after married
Homer Castalwain, and this old farmer
who tells the story is her last living de-
scendant.
Well, now it is all wrong to try to spoil
the old-time honored atory-a story made
sacred by the traditions of our fathers,
but fortunately it cannot be done in this
way, for We still have preserved the col
onial history of Virginia, written in 1924,
and Captain Smith himself writes the
| story of Pocahontss and calls her liking
| Powhatan's dearest daughter" and tells
how she laid her own head upon his and
saved him from death and John Rolfe
fell in love with her and married her,
| and she was afterwards called Lady Re
becca. Captain John Smith then wrote
letter to Princess Queen Anne, of Great
Britain, begging that the marriage might
be recognized by her and approved.
Rolfe also wrote letter to Sir Thomas
Dale in 1615, giving his reasons Tor mar
| rying an Indian, which letter have be-
fore me, as taken from the colonial re-
cords I do not suppose that there is any
event of colonial history more carefully
preserved and authenticated than this
heroic act of Pocahoutas, and lhope that
our childreu's faith in it will not be de-
stroyed by this uncertain narrative OF the
last living descendant of somebody
named Tetehee. Let the old farmer die
| in his faith if be wants to.
BILL ARP.