1844

Balch, Rev. T. B. "Pocahontas, Burr, and Wirt." [Bradford, VT] Green Mountain Gem; A Monthly Journal of Literature, Science, and the Arts 2 (1844): 19-20. Balch was a literary Southern minister, and this piece about a trip to Richmond seems a selection from another work, as yet unidentfied. Pocahontas, "a kind of tawny Shepherdess," is also "a Princess of blessed memory" and must ever be "the presiding genius of Richmond": "Her image seemed continually present during my stay at Richmond. She seemed to stand at every sylvan gate, and to be reflected in every setting sun. When the imagination unfolded its saloon, she entered as a welcome but pensive guest; and amid all its gay and vernal creations, she seemed to pluck nothing but cypress leaves, and suspend her wampum belt among its golden willows. Child of the forest! hadst thou been in Wyoming, that helmet never would have perished, and the tones of that tragic story would never have echoed among the slopes of Parnassus." (Is that a reference to Thomas Campbell's "Gertrude of Wyoming"?)
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