The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-09-09

monstrated chat New England cared
fer the negro. Old England
won't stop the traffic of opium with
the c'ninese. Neither will New Eng
Lap, i stop selling rum to the negro as
Yong as there is money in it. Five
hundred dollars year to the church
will hide many barrel in the hold OF
a vessel. Rev. Joe Cook denounced
Henry Grady and his speech in Bos-
ton, because he told the truth about
the negro, and Cook was cheered to
the echo, and he boasted that what
he said would be published in over
two thousand Northern newspapers,
and would be believed wherever read,
and all of Mr.. Grady's clap-trap
would go for naught. That is the
kind of reception that Rev. Cook gave
Henry Grady's overture for peace.
And Rev. Theodore Cuyler says that
Rev. Cook is great and coed man,
and he has lately enjoyed his COM
panionship immensely. And so l am
done with Cook and Cuyler too. I
have no respect for a man who COM
panions with man who denounced
Grady's Boston speech, and keeps on
denouncing US for what we didn't do.
Rev. Cuyler wouldn't have denounced
it, but I'm afraid he would hire a man
to do his cursing.
saw in your paper not long since
communication signed H. NJ. D.,
that proposes to knock all the ro-
nance out Of Captain John Smith
and Pocahontas. He seems to have
been travelling up the James river
with Colonel George, and Colonel
George told him that an old farmer
told him that his grandfather told
him that his great-grandmother told
him that Pocahontas was not her
name, but it was Tetehee, and she
was not daughter of Powhatan; that
she fell in love with Homer Castle
vain, a white man, and one day while
she was gathering corn he and his
followers siezed her and carried her
away to his tribe. Castlewain ap-
pealed to Captain John Smith for aid
to recover his girl, and Smith got old
Powhatan to lend him some of his
warriors, and they made a raid and
captured the maid and Bankee, too,
and Powhatan ordered Bankee to
have his brains beaten out with a
club, and just as the club was raised
to strike the blow Te;ehee threw her
self ir the way and saved his life
not from love but from pity-and she
soon after married Homer Castlewain,
and this old farmer who tells this
story is her last living descendant.
Well, now, it is all wrong to try to
spoil the old time-honored story-a
story made sacred by the traditions
of our fathers, but fortunately it can
not be done in this way, for we still
have preserved the colonial history of
Virginia, written in 1924, and Cap
tain Smith himself writes the story OF
Pocahontas, ard calls her "King Pow
hatan's dearest daughter" and tells
how she laid her own head upon his,
and saved him from death, and how
John Rolfe fell in love with her, and
married her, and she was afterwards
called Lady Rebecca. Captain John
Smith then wrote a letter to Princess
Queen Anne, of Great Britain, beg
ging that the marriage might be re-
cognized by her and approved.
Rolfe also wrote letter to Sir
Thomas Dale, in 1915, giving his rea-
sons for marrying an Indian, which
letter have before me, as taken from
the colonial records. I do not sup
pose that there is any event Of colo
NAL history more carefully preserved
and authenticated than this heroic
act of Pocahontas, and I hope that
our children's faith in it will not be
destroyed by this uncertain narrative
of the last living descendant of some
body named Tetehee. Let the old
farmer die in his faith if he wants to.
BILL ARP.