The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-05-28
THE GENESIS OF LINCOLN.
Bill APPS Opinion of j. II. Cathey' S
Book.

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was ruminating about all this and
how these negroes have all been fooled
about Grant and Lincoln lein-s thsr
friends and were fignting to free them,
when there is not D word of truth in It.
Neither of them cared a continental
dime for the negro anl hotn of them
were more concerned about their own
successes than anything else. But |
have had great regard for Lincoln lie
was Il much better man than his party
| and his death was IL calamity Ia tie
South / have recently received a little
volume entitled The Genesis OF Ahra-
ham Lincoln 1t is carefully and
affectionately written by James IL.
Cathey, Of Western North Carolina. anu
its unprejudiced perusal will convince
any man that Abraham Lincoln was
the son Of Abraham Enloe, ard shat
Nancy Hanks was a good orphan girl
who served in Enloe's family. The affi-
davifs and other evidences establish
this beyond dispute. Old father Abra-
ham Enloe was second Abraham and
poor Nancy Hanks a second Hagar and
for the same reason she was sent away
from the paternal homestead to keep
peace i'm the family. The father OF ner
child had great regard for her and
placed her with his relatives in Ken
lucky. where she afterwards married
Thomas Lincoln Some of the witness
es TO these facts are now 30 years old
and have passed all desire to deceive
anybody The descendants of this En-
loe family are numerous and their res-
L AL IL,
Carolina. Missouri and Texas, and all
confirms the story. All the very OLD peo-
pie i'll Western North Carolina We're fa-
smiliar with the girl Nancy Hanks and
the EnIoe family and old man Enloes
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF the childss patern-
ity and why he sent this modern Hagar
and her Ishmael away.
But this is no new thing. During the
war it was talked of in the army and
Lincoln was denounced by the entire
Todd family, into which he married.
Fifteen years ago. while | sojourned in
Western North Carolina, / found the
story current that Lincoln was the son
of Abraham Enloe and was named for
him by his mother. Nancy Hanks. NOW
Mr.. Cathey writes a pretty little book
about it and his excuse is that the
truth cannot hurt the living or the
dead; that Abraham Lincoln was
Americas most remarkable man, and
there would be no attempt to cloud the
life of real hero Cicero says that the
first law of history is that it should
neither care to say anything that is
false nor fear to say anything that IS
true.
1t is. therefore, the sole purpose OF
this little book to prove that this Won
derful man was not without ancestors.
His mother was Nancy Hanks. If he
was the son of a worthy sire the world
is entitled to know who that sire was,
whence he came and what his charac
teristics. The custodians of this history
of Abraham Lincoln are numbered by
scores and hundreds of the first peo-
ple-men and women of Western North
Carolina for the Enloes were large
and influential family and their de-,
scendants have intermarrietl with
many distinguished people. But l do
not propose to review the book 1t is
an interesting and remarkable revea-
tion. and is written by an enthusiastic
admirer of Mr.. Lincoln, and establishes
beyond questions his paternity. Abra-
LDlOC WIS HIUISpII I'LL eNIFuoFul-
nary man-the father of 13 children:
and his Photographic likeness to this
particular son is very striking both III
form and feature. Both were the same
height and had the same long, un-
shapely limbs.
This little book of 175 pages was
written by James III. Cathey of Bryson
Cfty, \. C., and is kind III motive and
classic i'll style. | thought when | first
opened it that perhaps it had better
not have been written, but on its
perusal | believe that 1t is better for
the whole truth to be told than that
this remarkable mans genesis should
continue to be uncertain and unknown
The price of this book is 60 cents and
it is now ON sale at Rogers book store
Asheville. and by Chas. e. Wood, Muir