The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-07-15
BILL APPS WEEKLY LETTER
BARLOW MAN GIVES EXPRESSION
TO HIS FEELINGS.
WANTS YANKEES TO APOLOGIZE.
Declares North Has No Right to Dictate
Lynchings VIII &c
Right On.

am not happy. Some months ago
wrote to our yankee friends that /
they we're gentlemen they would apollo
gize for all they done to us durint
that devilish war and after. never
received but one letter on that lin,
and that was from a native born Fed
efal soldier who said he was friendly
and that If would write out an apollo
gy and sendsit to him he would sign
1t. He seemed to be properly repent.
Ant. And now comes this editor oil
The New York Herald down here tc
Investigate our lynching business and
to philoscphize upon it, and he says
the north made a mistake in giving
the negro the right Of suffrage, but ID
doesent apologize.
He was one the prime leaders in the
whole business and speaks of It as .
mistake. It was no mistake. It was
malicious ignorance, and why doesen.
he say so? 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 he said the negro was
not fit for the bollot and that the north
had made an egregious blunder in
giving It to him. He dident apologize.
but he came pretty near il.
Now, . mistake doesent involve any
moral turpitude, but malicious blum.
der does The time has passed for
any more trucking. The stage of
desperation is upon the south and p6.
litical humility to the north has pass
cd. We have never felt that humility
but our politicians Rave preached II
and tried to get something from the
public crib by pretending we were
humble when we were not.
The truth is that the north is re-
sponsible for every outrage and every
lynching at the south. Here is The
Atlanta Age, a negro paper that is pub
lished by w. A. Pledger, that copies
every venemcus article from the New
York papers about the Sam Holt bust
ness, and Pledger writes to The New
York Sun that he is shocked at Gov.
ernor Gamblers utterances and he
Gays the good negroes at the south are
to these outrages on our wo-
men. The paper is pregnant with
comment on the lynching. I reckon
that is all right, for the liberty OF the
press must not be restricted. But
these .utterances from
Pledger's PAPER go through the edu-
Gated negro element and settle it's
convictions, and thereby comes some
more outrages and lynchings. New
York niggers come out in their Papers
and advise the shotgun and the torch
in retaliation, and those things are
copied in the niger papers at the
south.
But here Is the comfort: Uncle Sam
is still helping me in ny garden and
doesent know and docsent care any
thing about all this business. He SAYS
be was born a slave and for thirty
years has been freeman and has al
ways found that if a colored man done
his duty the white man done his.
Uncle Sam has large family and
through these Republican influences
hey have been corrupted and demon
Allied and he has lot of grandchild.
rem who don't know their own father
md the old man is grieved.
was Illuminating about all this and
low these negroes have all been fooled
lbout Grant and Lincoln being their
'risnds and were fighting to free them,
vhen there Is not word OF truth In
!. Neither OF them cared o continental |
line tor the negro and both OF them
weve more concerned sb0nt their own
'accessss than anything else. But I |
rave had great regard Tor Lincoln.
10 WAS much bettsr man than bis |
,arty and his death was q calamity TO |
be south. have recently received q |
title volume entitled "The Genesis OF |
abraham Lincoln. II Is carefully |
md affectionately written by James 81. |
,athey, Of western North Carolina,
nd its unprejudiced perusal will con-
'incS my man that Abraham Lincoln
ras the son of Abraham Enloe,' and
hat Nancy Hanks was good orphan
,irl who served in Enloe's family.
The affidavits and other evidences
this beyond dispute. Old
ather Abraham Enloe was . second
abraham and poor Nancy Hanks
econd Hagar and for the same reason
he was sent away from the paternal |,
to keep peace in the family.
he father Of her child had great re-
ard for her and placed her with his
elatives in Kentucky. where she af- |
awards married Thomas Lincoln.
|ome Of the witnesses to these facts
20 now 90 years old and have passed
II desire to deceive anybody. The
esoendants Of this Enloe family are
numerous and their testimony has been
ken from North Carolina, Missouri |
I'd Texas, and all confirm the story.
II tho very old people in western
[orth Carolins were familiar with the |
81 Nancy Hanks and the Enloe family |
"a old man Enloe's acknowledgment |
/ tie child's paternity and Why he
Dnt this modern Hagax and her Lab.
Iael awav.
nus this Is no new thing. During
z wsr il was talked Of IN the army
Al Lincoln Was denounced BY the |
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