The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-17
HALE WRITES TO ARP
GEORGIAN OF LONG 400 NOW LIVING
IN TENNESSEE.
hs Asks About tho Observation-Disclosures
Houdinot and Whom Boy Played In
tho lndiaRs' Printing Once.

luouShC VnaI almost everybody
wac dead but me, especially since
Judge Clark died, the man Of memo
ries, the historian, tho jurist, the
amiable and lovable citizen. / want
his book as soon as Mrs. Wyly has
it published. I know it will be a
treasure to tho old people, and
should be to the young. l thought
that all my contemporaries who
were familiar with tho public affairs
OF fifty and sixty years ago wero
dead, but was mistaken. Quite q
flood of historic letters have come to
mo Of late from venerable and schol-
arly men who have awakened from
their long retirement and write mo
some most interesting recollections
OF mon and events of bygone days.
What careful, artistic penmanship
illumines most of these letters, 70.
minding me Of my fathers, and
John Mcpherson Barrien's, and
Henry r.. Jackson's and others who
were trained to write by tho school,
masters Of the olden time.
Hore is q long and scholarly let
ter from AIR. S. p. Hale, Of Madison
vile, Tenn, who ia now in his
seventy fourth year, and whose
father was an officer in the army
that moved the Cherokoes beyond
the Mississippi river. 1t took many
months for the soldiers to gather
these Indians together, for they
kept IN hiding as long as Ipossible,
and while this was going on Mr..
Hale's father and his family were To-
Gated at New Echota, in what is now
Gordon county. "We lived" says
Mr.. Hale Gin house that my father
rented from Boudinot and he pur-
chased from him many articles Of
handsome furniture, among which
was a heavy folding leaf dining
table made of cherry wood and fin
ished in artistic style. This table
has been in the family ever since
and is now in my house, and on it
we eat our humble meals three times
a day. Iprize it highly as a souve-
mir OF my childhood, for l was then
only twelve years old. I remember
we'll seeing Mr.. Boudlnot and John
Ridge and other notable Indians in
conference there. Ridge was tall,
erect and copper colored; nose equil-
inc, eyes black and piercing and hair
straight, black and coarse. He
dressed like white man and spoke
broken English fiuently. His father
was an Indian and his mother half
breed and he was educated at Mo-
ravian mission school.
"Boudinot was not 80 tall, but
was a heavier, broader man with at
tractive features and polished man
ners. He dressed stylishly, wore a
tall silk hat and spoke English in
it's purity. He published news
paper at New Echota IN the Indian
dialect and we boys did often play
with the type Boudinot, whose In
dian name was Charles Vann, was
of mixed blood, and while at the
mission school attracted tho alton.
tion of iGlias Boudinot a wealthy
gentleman Of Philadelphia, who
adopted him and gavo him his Hu,
guenot name. This is the same
philanthropist who was the founder
and first president Of tho American
Bible Society and gavo it $4,000 to
start on. His will contained many
bequests to charity and among them
one Of $4,000 to provide spectaclca
for poor old women.
"But can you tell mo anything OF
chal-Lieutenant Paschal.
think he was n Georgian. lie waa
there at New Echota on General
Wood'f staff as aide do camp and
came there with Captain Derrick't
company from Danholega. Ho fell
desperately in love with John Ridges
only daughter, Sarah, beautiful snG
lovely girl, and tho best horse -wo
man ever saw. He courted he
and married her there. They spent
some time at our house and thei
marriage was quite romantic cpl
sode in our monotonous life. Dur
ing their courtship she one day OK