The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-10
me GENTLE PoCAHoNTAS.
,x PRINCESS PORTRAIT PRE-
sENTED TO THE SENATE.

n
Iobn smiths Colony Was Saved
obontas the Guardian Spirit.
Marriage to John ROIfe and
Descendants-The slender
r,..,d Upon which Hung MOmen-
tous Events.
From the Baltimore Sun.
week as mas already been mention
rbs sun. Senator Daniel of Vir-
presented TO the Senate, in, behalf
Mr. Henry S. Welcome, an American
ding in England, "a portrait of Poca-
,ontss. In making the presentation Mr.
Daniel said in part:
some time since received a letter
srou Henry S. Welcome, an American
.,i7sn a native of Indiana, now residing
4 j.. rroI,nd. near London, in which he re-
/ oges,ed me TO present TO the Senate in
bic bebaIf an oil painting of the Indian
,rnoess Pocahontas, whose name Is ro-
m,nacauy connected with our early his
tory and whose gentle character has pre-
served il IN sweet memory.
oNr Welcome is a philosophical cid-
veo who has carried American enterprise
"a nh, motherland where ne is distin-
or.sbed and successful chemist and drug
eist He was one of The organizers of the
American Society in London, and was It's
4 n,,sident for several years, and generally
h. is the chairman of the committee which
has charge of the Thanksgiving Day din
psr and the Fourth of July celebration
participated in by the American residents
Of that great metropolis.
THE picture of Pocahontas is fne
copv of a painting which hangs at Bootlh
nan in Norfolk. England, the former seat
of the Rofe family. The original is from
the brush OF De Passe. an eminent ar
lis. of the sixteenth and early part of the
n seventeenth centuries Upon the canvas
Of the original are painted these words:
"Matoaka Rebecka, fila potentis Prime;
Powha ami Imp. Virginia.
a On the space below
.Motoake. alias Rebecka, daughter of
the mighty Prince Powhathani, Emperour
Of Atianough Komouck of Virginia; a
CHRISTIAN converted and married to the
worshypfull Mr., Thomas Rolf. Aged 81
1916"
There was a superstition among the
Indians that concealed the true name, and
Matoaka was the real Indian name of the
princess though they called her Pocahon-
tas.
Within a few years. Mr.. President, we
will celebrate, and doubtless with fitting
honors the three hundredth anniversary
of the planting of the first durable col
ony Of the English-speaking race in the
New World. This occurred at jamestown,
4 in Virginia, on the 18Th day of May, 1907
n Three little ships of 20, 10 and 100 tons
burden, respectively, bearing the names
H of the Discovery, Good Speed and Susan
4 Constant under the command of Can't
Christopher Newport, had sailed down the
Thames on the 18th day of December, 1906,
with the design of renewing the effort,
q which had previously failed, to establish
a colony at Roanoke, in what is now North
Carolina. Prayers were said in the
churches as they went forth on their peril
Gus enterprise, and the poet Drayton watt
ed them bon voyage" in inspiring verse,
& one of which runs:
You brave, heroic minds,
Worthy your country's name,
That honor still pursue,
Whilst lettering binds
a Lurke here at home with shame.
Go and subdue.
They went and they subdued. A violent
4 storm however Mr.. President, drove the
H river where they first touched land at a
place which they named Point Comfort.
F. They then Proceeded on their way up the
Il James river, and on the 18th day of May,
1907, the first fleet that came to stay
4 landed at jamestown.
Capt. John Smith.
Capt John Smith, knight errant. SOL
der, sailor and adventurer, was the lead
nf n Of he
became the president. For three years,
by his courage, wisdom and $ mastery of
men, he rescued and preserved id from
many trials, difficulties and dangers. To
him belongs the name of founder.
While the land was fertile and beautiful
enough and its lower shores were covered
with flowers of diverse colors and goodly
trees, with fish in the streams and game
IN the forests, danger lurked in every
thicket. The fight of arrows from Indian
bows in the tall grass was the salute
with which the newcomers were received
IN wilderness of which the great Indian
King Powhatan was Emperor, having in
the tribe 5000, with 2,4O0 warriors.
A year passed by, and complaints came
that little had been accomplished. Fever
and hunger had decimated the colony, and
there was discomfort at home. The royal
order was to go in search of the South
sea, and so, with a small party, John
smith, on bleak December day in 1907,
embarked in a barge up the Chickahom-
my river 10 find it. Ascending TO the shall
oWs, he procured a canoe and some In
alan guides and with only two compan-
IONS he assembled farther until he reached
and landed al a point in the White Oak
swamp east of Richmond, to which he
gave the name of Rassaweak
tie did not find the South sea, but here
ne did find a band of Indians who cap
l0red him. He was taken before their chief.
ppechancanough, brother TO the Emperor
ioWhattan, and was thence taken to We
,o"ohomoho, the chief place of council of
ioWhattan, in what is now Gloucester
county, at a site on the north bank of the
loiA river not far from Yorktown.
wrapped in a robe of coonskin sat the
Ceh gaunt sour old Indian Emperor and
'Hl'n who had slain two of his Indian as
sahants in the fight on the Chickahominy
was condemned 20 die.
POcahOntas to the Rescue.
NO stones were brought forth before
row Aatan, and Smith was dragged to them
~ mead forced down upon one of them.
pl' CLUBS were raised to beat out his
p'Ins' when, 10, an Indian girl of twelve
ma