The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-05-25
Declares That North Has no Righ!
TO Dictate to South.
SAYS lYNCHINGS WILL GO ON.
The Barlow Philosopher Declares That we
Must Settle the Question Scores Some
Of the News.

~ 10 nun nc WOuIu sign II. he seemed
to be properly repentant Aud now
comes to this editor OF The New York
Herald down here to investigate our
lynching business and to philosophize
upon it, and he says the north made a
mistake in giving the negro the right
OF suffrage, but be decent apologize.
He was one Of the prime leaders in the
whole business aud speaks OF it as q
mistake. 1t Was no mistake. 1t was
malicious ignorance, and why doesent
he say Sc? 1t has taken him and his
folks thirty years to find out they
knew but little about us and nothing
about the negro. Senator Ingalls, has
got more sense and more candor. He
came down to Texas ten years ago to
investigate and went home and wrote
letter IN which be said the negro was
bot tit for the ballot aud that the north
had made an egregrious blnndcr in
giving it to him. He didn't apologize,
but he came pretty near it.
Now, Il mistake doesent involve
any moral tu-pitudc, but q malicious
blunder does. The time has passed
for any more trucking. The stage of
desperation is upon the South and po-
liticul humility 10 the North has pass
ed. We have never felt that humility,
but our politicians have preached it
and tried to get something from the
public CRIB 10y pretending we were
humble when We were not
The truth is that the North is re-
sponsible for every outrage aud every
lynching at the South. Here is the
Atlanta Age, n negro paper that is
published by W. A. Pledger, that cop
les every venomOus article from the
New York papers about the Sam Hose
business, and Pledger Whites to The
New York Sun that he is shocked at
Governor Gamblers utterances ard he
says the good negroes ut the Soath are
opposed to these outrages on our wo-
men. The paper is pregnant with
comment on the lynchlng. 1 reckon
that is all right, for the liberty of the
press must not be restricted. But
nevertheless these utterances from
Pledger's paper 60 through the edu-
Gated negro element and settles its
convictions and thereby comes some
more outrages aud some more lynch
in8s. New York niggers como out in
th,i. papers and advise the shotgun
and the torch in retaliation, and those
things are copied in the niger papers
at tho South.
But here is the comfort: Uncle Sam
Is still helping me in my garden and
doesent know and doesent care any
thing about oil this business. He saws
he was born slave and for thirty
years has been freeman and has al
ways found that if co!ored man done
his duty the white man done his.
Uncle Sam has large family and
through these Republican influence.
they have been corrupted and demon.
allied and he has a lot of grandcsil.
dren who don't know their own father
and the old man is grieved.
was Illuminating about all this and
how these negroes have all been fooled
about Grant and Lincoln being thej,
friends AID were fighting to FREQ them,
when there is not n word of truth in
1t. Neither of them cared continen-
tai dime for the negro and both o.
them were more concerned about thei,
own successes than anything else. But
l have had great regard for Lincoln.
he was much better man than hi,
/ party and his death was a calamity tc
tho South I have recently received
little volume entitled "The Genesi,
OF Abraham Lincoln" 1t is CAREFUL
ard affectionately written by Jane.
II. Cathey. of Western North Caro-
INA, and its unprejudiced perusal viii
convince any man that Abaham Lin
coin was the son of Abraham Enloe
and that Nancy Hanks was q good or.
phan girl who served in Euloe's ,ii,-~
iy. The aftidavits and othshs..am
establish this beyond d. evidence
Father Abraham E-.icv. .spute. OIL
Abraham AM pra=.hIoe WAS u secon,
second Hlg g.. Il . poor f.. Nancy IAN ~, Hanks
J, -'e VAS sent away from the paterns
homestead to keep peace in the fam
lily. The father of her child had gres
regard for her and placed her with hi
relatives in Kentucky. where she al
forwards married Thomas Lincoln
Some OF the witnesses to these fact
arc now ninety years old and hav
passed oil desire to deceive anybody
The descendants of this Enloe famil
are numerous and their testimony ha
oeen taken from North Carolina, Mi.
seuri and Texas, and al confirm tn
story. All the very old people i
North Carolina were familiar with tb
girl Nancy Hanks and the Enloe fan
lily and old man Enioe's acknowled,
ment of the child's paternity and VIII
he sent this modern Hnger aud hs
Ismael away.
But this is no new thing. Durin
the war it was talked OF in the arg
and Lincoln Was denounced by the Ell
tire Todd family, into which he ma
ried. Fifteen years ago, while I e.
journed in Western North Carolina,
found the story current that Abraha
Lincoln was the son of Abraham E
loe and was named for him 10y l.
mother, Nancy Hanks. Now, M
r Cathey writes O pretty little boo
about it and his excuse is thai Il
truth canno; hurt the living or Il
, dead; that Abraham Lincoln "
Americas most remarkable man, O,
there should be no attempt to clio,
: the life of a real hero. Cicero ga
that the fret law of history is that
| should neither care to say anythil
that is falls, nor fear to say AM thil
that is true.
It is, therefore, the sole purpose
. this little book to prove that thi wo
derful maa was not without ancestor
. His mother was Nancy Hanks. Ii
was tho son of worthy sire the wor
is entitled to know who that sire VIZ
whence he came and what his chara
teristics. The custo1ians of this histo