The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-01
SHAFT UNVEILED
AT H;|'E|:.NI|R|COPOL|S
Colonial Danes Mark Spot Sc
# lected for First American
University.
COLONEL M,cA8E SPEAKS
Recalls Romantic Associations
Which Cluster Around
Historic Spot.
COLONEL M'CABE
SPEAKS

- w ydSHtS and launcn. leaving
Richmond at II o'clock yesterday
morning. conveyed members Of the
Virginia Society Of Colonial Danes TO
Dutch Gap. where a shaft was un-
yelled. Inenorializing the first college
4 and university projected by English
colonists in the United States.
The shaft is of Virginia granite. and
stands twenty-seven feet high. On a
poll6lhcd surface forming part of
the base is this Inscription: The Co
lonial Danes OF American in the State
OF Virginia. a. d. 1910. erect this
(, monument on the site of the town OF
Henricopolis. to commemorate COL
1cEe and university which, on May
as. 1919. the Virginia Company OF
London decrced should be established
here
Immediately on the arrival of the
Danes at Dutch Cap yesterday the
program Of tho unveiling was begun.
ri. Rev. Robert "A. Gibson, Bishop of
Virginia, offered prayer. after which
Captain Jennings c. Wise introduced
The orator of the day. Colonel VI
Gordon McCabe. Colonel McCabe's adj
dress was masterpiece OF eloquence,
and showed the most accurate and ex-
haustive research regarding the earli-
est educational movement IN the New
World. fathered by the foremost men
Of England and the Virginia colony
he said in part:
The First College and Univcrsity Pro-
tccted IN America (10lO), ut Hen
ricopolIs' tDutch Gnp).
Address before the Colonial Danes
In Virginia by Colonel W. Gordon Nc
Cnbe. President Of the Virginia Society
81 me Cincinnati. and of the Virginia
Historical Society.
Colonel McCabe began his address BY
recalling the many romantic and HIS
toric associations that cluster about
the spot where the commcmoration was
being held-thc site OF the old Henri
copolls.' built by sir Thomas Dale in
16ll and named in honor OF James the
rirsts son, Henry. Prince of Wales.
Close at hand, he said. were wilton"
the seat OF Colonel William Randolph
and OF his daughter Ammo. brilliant,
co1uettlsh beauty. known to her in
Inmates ms Nancy Wilton who still
smiles archly down upon US from the
painters canvas. with patch on chin
and powder on hair, the very pearl OF
eii Colonial Danes" ncar by "Yarina."
where Rolfc and Pocahontas lived dur
Ing the first years OF their welded life;
few miles below, .Curls Neck home
he said, "of Nirginia's first glorious
rebel, Nathaniel Bacon. the Younger.
who. In 1876. led the Virginia yeomen
as they famed out into revolt against
the arbitrary cxactions OF Sir Villa m
berkeley. Then he alluded to the
nearby battleflelds (MaIvern Hill and
others). (which Lee and old stone
wall and the thin gray line have
made forever historic by the splendor
OF their deeds"
The speaker then gave eIabora te per-
sonal sketches of Prince Henry and OF
Dale. picturing the deep affection that
n " Il tad tNEfy -
and his glorious master Gas Dale
called him). declaring of the latter
TINT had he lived 10 reign. he had
surely averted from his own king dom.
and from Virginia as we'll, the many
tragic vicissitudes that were destined
soon to shake the very fabric OF the
whole realm"
Dale himself the orator pronounced
as next to Smith. the ablest soldier
and most sagacious administrator that
came out to Virginia In the seventeenth
century"
Dale returned to England In 1916, ac-
companied BY Rolfe. ocahontas and
their Infant son. Colonel McCabe
described the enthusiastic welcome
given the Emperour's daughter" blythe
Queen and the great ladies of the
court, IS we'll as by the humber folk;
the routs and balls and theatre parties
given in her honor by these high per-
sonages. But far more Significant, he
said. was the fact according to pur-
chas) that the gentle Virginia Prin-
cess kindled In the breasts of divers
particular persons of honour the hope
full zeal by her to advance Christian
tie"
This was the germ of the scheme on
the part of people of the godlie7
sort to establish in Virginia a college
for educating the Indians. No more
was intended in the original plan. but
when taken in hand by the Virginia
Company,'tit grew TO he more compre-
hensIve. ana Sir Edwin Sandys and
his adherents, who then dominated the
affairs of the COMPANY. devised a sys-
tematic scheme of education for Vir-
sinia. leading UP from free school
TO college embracing manual instruc-
tion for the Indians and liberal edu.
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