Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-10-02
GEORGIA OF LONG AGO.
Recalled to Arp by Scholarly and
Historic Letters.
one Who Knew Dondinot When g
Doy-Storics of Lieut.. Pnschal-
An Early Romance-Noung
Indian Archer.

Indian Archer.
Thought hat almost everybody was
| dead but me, especially since Judge
Clark died, the man of memories,
the historian, the jurlst, the amiable
| and lovable citizen. want his book as
soon as Mrs. WHY has it published. l
know il will be n treasure to the old
people, and Should be to the young. 1
thought that all my contemporaries
who we've familiar with the public AZ
fairs ii fifty and sixty years ago were
dead, but | was mistaken. Quite
a flood of historic letters have come to
me of late from venerable and scholarly
menwho have awakened from their long
retirement and write me some most in
teresting ~recollections of men and
events of bygone days, What careful,
artistic %peumanship illumines most OF
these letters, reminding me of my IA
TIERS, and John Mcpherson Berrien's,
and Henry r. Jackson's, and others
who were trained TO write by the
schoolmasters of the olden time
Here is a long and scholarly letter
from Mr.. S. p. Hale, of M~adisonville,
Tenn, who is now in his seventy-fourth
wear. and whose father was an officer
in the army that moved the Cherokees
beyond the Mississippi river. 1t took
many months for the soldiers to gather
these Indians together, for they kept
in hiding as long as possible, and while
this was going on Mr.. Hale's father and
his family were located at New Echota,
in what is now Gordon county. I'VE
lived" said Mr.. Hale, lin a house that
my father rented from Boudinot and he
purchased from him many articles of
handsome furniture, among which was
a heavy folding leaf dining table made
of cherry wood and finished in artistic
style. This table has been in the fam
lily ever since and is now in my house,
and on it we eat our humble meals
three times a day. ] prize it highly as
a souvenir of my childhood, for |
was then only ~ years old. remem-
Der well seeing Mr.. Boudinot and John
Ridge and other notable indians in con-
ference there. Ridge vas tall, erect
and copper-colored; most aquiline, eyes
black and piercing and hair straight,
black and coarse. He dressed like a
white man and spoke broken English
fluently. His father was an Indian, his
mother a half breed, and he was edu-
Gated at a Morayian mission school,
"Boudinot was not so tall, but was a
heavier, broader man, with attractive
features and polished He
dressed stylishly, wore a dark silk hat
and spoke English in its purity. He
published a newspaper at New Echota
in the Indian dialect, and we boys did
often play with the type. Boudinot,
whose Indian name was Charles Nann,
was of mixed blood, and while at the
mission school attracted the attention
Of Elias Boudinot, a wealthy gentle
man of Philadelphia, who adopted him
and gave him his Huguenot name. This
is the same philanthropist who was the
founder and first president of the Amer
lean Bible society, and gave it $4,000
to start on. His will contained many
requests to charity, and among them
one of $4,000 to provide spectacles for
poor old women.
"But can you tell me anything of Pas.
schal-Lieut. Paschal? think he was
a Georgian. lie was there at New
Eohota OF Gen. Woods staff as aid
de-camp, and came here with Capt.
Derrick's company from %Dahlonega.
He fell desperately in love with John
Ridges only daughter, Sarah, a beau
tiful and lovely girl, and the best horse
woman | ever saw. He courted her and
married her there. They spent some
time at our house, and their marriage
was quite a romantic episode in our mo-
notonous life. puriEg their court
ship she one day expressed a desire to
ride my fathers horse, Muckle john
Il steed of blood and mettle. My fa-
Their reluctantly consented, and for her
safety had a bride with Il very severe
bit put on him. Paschal was mounted
on a fast Indian pony, and they were
soon away and out OF sight. They rode
five or six miles to the big spring, and
when about to return, the happy, laugh.
ing girl proposed to swap brides and
let Muckle John go as fast AS he pleased.
Paschal tried to exchange without
her ~dismounting. But the moment
Muckle John found his mouth free he
gave a snort and started for home on
n wild canter. In vain did Pasci;G!
try to override his sweetheart, II
was a John Gilpin race, and Muckle
John never slackened his speed unit
he reached the horse block, where his
rider had mounted. She was wild
with laughter and excitement, and de
clared it was the finest ride of her life
and that when the horse got tired she
dashed him on. But poor Paschal did
not for a long time recover from the
shock, for he feared be would never SEE
his darling alive any more.
"Paschal and his bride went west
and many years ago l read something
about a Judge Paschal out in Texas. /.
he the same man."
l suppose that he was, for Pascha
did live in Texas several years and pub
lished a paper at Austin, and in 1s59con
tributed largely to the election of hi
friend, Sam Houston, as governor. II,
settled first in Arkansas and practicet
law and o o won distinction and wa,
elected judge of the supreme court il
1S41. In 1869 he removed to Washing
ton city and founded the law depart
ment of Georgetown university and be
came its president and there received
the degree of LII. d. He published AM
compiled many law books and ais,
wrote a biography of Gen. Sam Hous
ton. 1t is with pride we give this sketcl
Of this notable and gifted man, for h
was a Georgian, born in Greene county
educated at Mercer and admitted I,
the bar in 1882 at Washington, in Wilke
county. He died in 1878. I wonder i
there were any quadroon children borl
to his Indian wife. No doubt he ha
relatives living in Georgia who ca
tell.
In perusing these ancient records
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