Pocahontas and the Dawn of Our Nation (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Platt, Charles Davis) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Pocahontas and the Dawn of Our Nation In 1914, while making inquiries about the history of Dover, New Jersey, I entered upon a correspondence with Mrs. Althea Fitz Randolph Bedle, of Jersey City, widow of Hon. Joseph D. Bedle, a former Governor of New Jersey. From her I obtained genealogical notes of the Fitz Randolph family, represented in this section by Hartshorne Fitz Randolph, from whom our Randolph Township takes its name. Seeing that I was interested in historical matters, Mrs. Bedle sent me a poem that she had begun on Pocahontas, the Indian princess of Virginia, asking me to assist in the revision and completion of the poem. The character and personality of Pocahontas were very near and dear to Mrs. Bedle´s heart, and she has described her heroine with a woman´s sympathy and enthusiasm, and with true poetic feeling. Her version of the story was completed in about two hundred lines. My attention being thus called to this subject, I took up, in my summer vacation, the study of the original narratives of the settlement of Jamestown, and began to turn the whole history into a narrative poem, placing the various events in chronological order, as I disentangled them from the various independent sources. Mrs. Bedle was greatly interested in this historical development of the subject and did everything in her power to assist me in carrying out the plan of a longer poem that should supplement her own work. I afterwards reduced my long narrative poem to a shorter lyric version of about six hundred lines, omitting much of the detail. For the substance of these historical poems I am indebted to the early narratives of Captain John Smith and other cotemporaries of Pocahontas as edited by Lyon Gardiner Tyler, LL.D., President of the College of William and Mary. Mr. Victor Hugo Paltsits, Head of the Department of American History in the Public Library of New York City, put at my disposal many other books of reference. My aim has been to follow the history as truly as possible, rather than to make a fictitious historical romance. Truth is stranger than fiction, and may be more interesting than some fiction. The cotemporaries of Pocahontas were cotemporaries of Shakespeare. Shakespeare died just a few weeks before Pocahontas arrived in England. She created a great sensation in European circles as La Belle Sauvage. She deserves to be remembered today as one who welcomed the dawn of our nation. The following note on the descendants of Pocahontas is taken from an article by Alfred B. Williams, in the New York Times Book Review and Magazine of January 9, 1921. "The Indian blood from Pocahontas, of which John Randolph, of Roanoke, was so proud, was given to the family by Lucy Boiling, direct descent on her father´s side, of the Indian Princess. This Lucy married a Randolph, grandson of William Randolph (1651-1711). The touch of Indian blood seemed not only to add vigor to the stock, but, strangely enough, to give it conservative tendencies. John Marshall, the Chief Justice, whose mother was Mrs. Keith, formerly Mary Isham Randolph, great-granddaughter of Jane Rolfe, who was granddaughter of Pocahontas, was a bulwark of conservative sentiment, stable government, and unity among the States. The story of Pocahontas will be presented in two forms, one entitled "Scenes from the Life of Pocahontas, the Indian Princess;" and the other entitled "The Dawn of Our Nation." It should be of interest to all American citizens, in this year of historical anniversaries, to review the early contact of the two races - the Red Men and the White Men - in 1607, and to note those ideals of life, which, in spite of all obscuration, were most vital in the English race as it gained at Jamestown its first permanent foothold upo
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