1847

[Pickett, James Chamberlayne] By a Kentuckian. The Memory of Pocahontas Vindicated against the Erroneous Judgment of the Hon. Waddy Thompson. Washington, 1847. 4-6, 15-16, 25-39. Here is Pickett responding to what he considers a slur against Pocahontas in Thompson 1846: "In all history and in all romance it would be difficult to find a more perfect character than Pocahontas. . . . It is impossible to become acquainted with her story without loving and admiring a being so good, so gentle, so humane, and so heroic. . . . Being by birth a Virginian, with strong attachments for my native State . . . and the memory of Pocahontas being dear to every son and daughter of the 'Old Dominion,' I trust that in vindicating her memory, I am doing nothing culpable, presumptuous, or officious." Among his arguments that Pocahontas was better than Marina are the fact that Pocahontas was a princess, that she converted, and that Smith was a better man than Cortes. The appendix contains extracts about Pocahontas from a dozen or more histories, including some foreign language works (with only partial citations).
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