--Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, 1785
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Southrons,
We have a brand new remastered DVD entitled “The Ideological Use of Slavery in American Liberalism,” by distinguished professor, Dr. Don Livingston, on our website. This is an extremely important talk because, thus far in the Sesquicentennial, all we have heard about is slavery slavery slavery.
Dr. Livingston discusses how the left USES slavery for its own political benefit. He calls the notion that the North invaded the South to free the slaves, “an absurdity.” Please visit www.BonnieBluePublishing.com for a picture, 10-minute video clip and Dr. Livingston’s bio.
The Charleston Post and Courier, in its “Charleston at War” segment Sunday, January 9, 2011, gave a PATHETIC one-sided presentation of the issues leading up to the bombardment of Fort Sumter.
It is utterly incredible that writer Brian Hicks could have left out Lincoln’s hostile and well-publicized naval flotilla loaded with troops and arms steaming fast for Fort Sumter during the most critical hour in American history. That action by Lincoln is the reason the Confederates demanded surrender. Everybody on both sides knew that reinforcing the fort meant war.
Brian Hicks mentions none of this.
Lincoln’s own commander in Fort Sumter, Major Robert Anderson, clearly blamed Lincoln for starting the war. When Anderson found out an attempt was going to be made to reinforce the fort, he wrote back to Lincoln and Secretary of State Cameron a letter that included:
. . . a movement made now when the South has been erroneously informed that none such will be attempted, would produce most disastrous results throughout our country. . . . We shall strive to do our duty, though I frankly say that my heart is not in the war which I see is to be thus commenced. . . .
Alexander Stephens wrote that the one who strikes the first blow is not the one who starts a fight.
The one who starts a fight is the one who makes the first blow necessary.
Brian Hicks, in his pseudo-history, has denied his readers extremely important and well-known details that indict Lincoln and the North as the perpetrators of the war.
The one who starts a fight is the one who makes the first blow necessary.
Brian Hicks, in his pseudo-history, has denied his readers extremely important and well-known details that indict Lincoln and the North as the perpetrators of the war.
It is a HUGE part of the Fort Sumter story to know about Lincoln’s reinforcement attempt because that’s what set everything in motion. The Confederates demanded surrender because Lincoln’s hostile naval flotilla was steaming fast to Charleston.
But Hicks wants you to believe that Southerners acted in a vacuum. He writes, “The South had declared war.”
Southerners deserve to have the entire story told, not a propagandist piece of half-history from Charleston’s newspaper.
It’s too bad Hicks constantly leaves out or distorts critical facts. His street-level descriptions are good, even exciting at times, but his segment on Fort Sumter is garbage. It is not history, and it is certainly not the truth of what happened in April, 1861.
And so, in Brian Hicks’s honor, we are reprinting the best piece ever written on Fort Sumter: “Lincoln and Fort Sumter.” It was published in August, 1937, in Volume 3, Issue 3 of The Journal of Southern History, pages 259-288, written by Charles W. Ramsdell. This brilliant treatise is well-thought-of, even today, and often cited.
Please visit our website at www.BonnieBluePublishing.com for information on Dr. Livingston’s fabulous DVD, and to get the rest of the Fort Sumter story that Brian Hicks and the Post and Courier deliberately left out.
Magna est veritas et praevalebit!
(Great is truth and it will prevail!)
Gene Kizer
Producer
P.O. Box 13012
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