49. SAMUEL PHILLIPS JONES [Donald Bruce, Samuel Phillips, Amasa, Daniel, Josiah,3 Josiah, Lewis.1], b. in Orangeburg Dist. April 27, 1818; m., Aug. 10, 1843, Caroline Elizabeth Nixon, of Macon, Ga., who d. Aug. 25, 1847; m. again, Sept. 5, 1849, Hope Lord Pearson, his first cousin; d. May 15, 1869. His widow resides in Decatur, Ga. Issue: First wife. I. Henrietta Bruce Jones, b. May 3, 1844; m., Jany 24, II. Julia Ella Jones, b. Aug. 9, 1845; d. May 9, 1847. Second wife. IV. Julia Emma Jones, b. Jany. 24, 1851; m., Jany 16, 1884, Samuel Marion Day; d. at Ringgold, Ga., May 4, 1885. (No issue.) V. Mary Hart Jones, b. May 5,1853; d. Sept. 18, 1854. VIII. Isabella Cross Jones, b. July 11, 1859; m., 1893, Rev. X. William Greene Jones, b. May 15, 1867; killed by a REVIEWS. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASsoCIATION FOR 1902. 2 vols. Washington, Government Printing Office. 1903. .O. pp., I. 648; II. 527. The one article in this Report which concerns the South in particular is Professor Bugbee's account of the Archives of Bexar, which have been recently turned over to the University of Texas and are now being arranged and calendared by that institution. They amount to 300,000 or 400,000 pages and cover the century from 1734 to the independence of Texas. They throw a flood of light on the relations of French and Spanish in the Southwest, on the Louisiana purchase, on the Burr conspiracy and on many other events. Other papers of special interest to students in the Southern field are Captain Mahan's inaugural address on Subordination in Historical Treatment, in which he reviews the well recognized attainments of every successful historian, emphasizes the necessity of organization of materials and the need of that interpretation which brings out the essence of the subject: "The function, therefore, of the historian is not merely to accumulate facts at once accurately and in entirety, but to present them in such a way that the wayfaring man may not err in his understanding of them." Dr. James Sullivan, in a paper on the Antecedents of the Declaration of Independence, shows that by the fifth century A. D., all the important principles of the Declaration had been enunciated. Professor Wm. McDonald holds that American Colonial History should be treated from the view that the colonies were a part of the British Empire, and that their progress should be studied as a part of the history of English colonization. Prof. C. A. Dunningway shows that the protest of the United States was only one of a number of reasons that induced the French to withdraw from Mexico, and Prof. J. A. Woodburn treats Party Politics in Indiana during the Civil War. Prof. J. Franklin Jameson prints a valuable series of Studies on the History of the Federal Constitution, including some new letters on the subject written by members and hitherto unpublished, a list of the letters in print and a valuable discussion of the texts of the various plans proposed. The Winsor Prize, The Anti-Masonic Party: A Study of Political Anti-Masonry in the United States, 1827-1840, by Charles McCarthy, Ph. D., is printed, as is also a report on the Public Archives of Oregon. The Public Archives Commission reports pleasing progress toward the better care of public records in New York State and city, and announces as in preparation a report on the county records of Maryland by Rev. Charles W. Sommerville, and on the county records of North Carolina by Professor John S. Bassett. Considering the brilliant success attained by Doctor Bassett in his report on the public records of North Carolina, printed in the Reports for 1900 and 1901, we are astonished that he was not satisfied to rest forever on the laurels then won. Volume II of the Report presents the sixth report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, and is devoted entirely to the diary and correspondence of Salmon P. Chase. There is a calendar of Chase letters hitherto printed, a list of those here printed; Chase's diary, July 21 to October 12, 1862; selected letters from Chase, 1846-61; letters from George S. Dennison to Chase, 1862-65; miscellaneous letters to Chase, 1842-70. The whole forms, perhaps, the most valuable historical contribution of the year and throws a flood of light on the Civil War, especially the diary and the Dennison letters from New Orleans. THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR. By Guy Carleton Lee, Ph. D. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippin cott Company. 1903. O. pp., 421, with 24 illus., portraits and maps; cloth. $2.13. With the understanding that "true" is used to mean an impartial and unprejudiced examination of the causes, immediate and remote, which led up to the Civil War, that the author is unsectional and that he can treat his subject in the cold light of reason, seeking only to arrive at a just estimate of the men and measures which played the heavy parts in the pre-bellum drama, without fear or favor, the title is not an inapt characterization of the work to which it is given. There are many things that will please the partisans of either side; there are more that will please only the opposition, but which are still known to be essentially true. The book itself is popular in form and appeals to the average reader, not by the statement of many facts and details, but by the statement of results based on generally accepted facts. It looks more to the philosophical interpretation of the causes giving rise to the war and to its conclusion in a particular way. The spirit and method of this book are good. Its weaknesses are in execution and its carelessness in the minuter points of history, as when Robert Y. Hayne appear as Thomas Y. Hayne (p. 63); where Lundy and Garrison are made leaders in the abolition movement, with no mention of Charles Osborn (p. 66); when it is said (p. 73) that the Quakers never took a stand against slavery in the nineteenth century as a body. The most southern yearly meetings, those of Virginia and North Carolina, certainly took such stand as a body, and as there was no higher organization than the yearly meeting they could not go further. N. P. appears as N. T. Banks (p. 120); there was no Supreme Court in the Confederacy (p. 213); Davis and Stephens were not reëlected and were ineligible (p. 214); "Fighting Joe" Hooker masquerades as Hooper, and Stanton appears as Edward M. Stanton (p. 266). The details of battles have also been attacked by military critics. With these minor errors corrected, a perusal of the book will bring the general reader measurably nearer to a true understanding of the war and its many causes. THE GENESIS OF LINCOLN. By James H. Cathey, n. d., n. p. [1903.] D. pp., t. p.+307; 21 ports., including dups., I ill.; cloth, $1.50; paper, $1.00; to be had of the author, Sylva, N. C. In 1899 Mr. Cathey published under the incomprehensible title, Truth is Stranger than Fiction; or the True Genesis of a Wonderful Man (D. pp. t. p.+11.+185, 16 ports. I ill.), an account of the parentage of Abraham Lincoln. His little book struck a popular chord and has already passed through two editions. The present is the third, enlarged, with additional testimony and proofs. What is said of the first edition in these PUBLICATIONS may be appropriately reproduced for the third (III. 352-3). The purpose of the book is to prove that Abraham Lincoln was the son of Nancy Hanks by Abraham Enloe, of Swain county, N. C.; that the father for the sake of domestic peace sent the girl before the birth of her child to some of his relations in Kentucky; that the mother married there, and that the son took the name of his putative father. The evidence used is the tradition universal in western North Carolina, testified to by many respectable persons and accepted by members of the Enloe family, and a fancied resemblance between some of the Enloes, whose pictures are published, and Lincoln. The evidence produced shows that the story has been in circulation in North Carolina since the earliest times, and that it has found many believers in Kentucky and Illinois.-Publications Southern History Association, III. 352-3 The present edition has been extended by more than a hundred pages. These are more confirmatory letters, an |