New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-03
"Lincoln Began
War" Pamphlet
Finally Dug Up
Confederate Veteran Charges
4Flagrant Acts Were Com
mitted Against South Be-
fore Sumter Was Fired On
Cites Alleged War Files
Treacherous Violation of
Armistice ''Discovered" in
Orders From Washington
Specinl Dispotch to The Tribune


RICHMOND, Va, July "A copy
of Truths of the War Conspiracy of
1861" pamphlet copyright 1921 by
II. w. tombstone, Idylwld, Ga, which
formed the basis of a resolution in
dorsed at the thirty second annual re-
union in Richmond of the United Con-
federatc Veterans, obtained here. The
resolution charged Abraham Lincoln
with deliberately conceiving and in
stigating the war between the states"
tombstone, from May, 1851, to January,
1852, served in the 9Th Georgia Voun-
teers, C. S. A., at Pensacola, Fla. The
pamphlet says in part:
"The crucial period in which the pre-
meditated schemes Of the fanatics were
put into operation, so as to inaugurate
actual war, was from March 4 to July
4, 1861, before Congress was allowed to
meet to consider it. About July /,
1861, an expedition under our Colonel,
John E. Jackson, attacked Billy Wat
sons Zouaves (of Boston, on Santa
Rosa Island, at night. We drove them
pcll nell into Fort Pickens, captured,
burned their camps and immense stores
AS we were returning to our boats we
were attacked by a force of Regulars
Of the United States Army, We drove
them back, and my Captain, S. w.
Mangham, captured their commanding
officer, Major Vodges, who was mounted
on q mule.
Twenty years later, at Fort Adams,
R. l., met General Vodges, who re-
membered the incident and discussed
it. In his remarks he stated that he
had reinforced Fort Pickens before
Fort Sumter was attacked, but that
his act was overshadowed by the
clamor and Juror about Fort Sumter.
That was the first intimation ! ever
had of that fact. 1t led me to search
for some proof of it.
"ln 1917 | succeeded in perfecting
proofs fixing the responsibility for
the war between the states 1861 -65,
on one man-Abraham Lincoln.
Quotes Admiral Semmes
Zone of the keenest observers I ever
met was in Washington at the time Of
this secret war conspiracy, Admiral
Raphael Semmes, C. S. N. In 1870 a
friend at Mobile invited me to accom-
pany him to the Anchorage, the home
of the admiral, and for an hour | en-
joyed the admiral's "reminiscences"
AS ! lett ne SAID TO me:
Captain, the secret treachery that
caused the war will come to light and
justify the South. Truth is death
less
~ have read that the Civil War be-
gan when Fort Sumter was fired on by
the South An extract from Abraham
Llncoln's message to Congress, Deem
Der, 1864, says: 4 simply mean to say
that the war will cease, on the part
of the government, whenever it shall
cease on the part of those who began
it.
"The United States government and
Abraham Lincoln began the war by
committing at least four fragrant acts
of war against two vital points in the
South weeks before Fort Sumter was
fired on. That these acts were secret
and the most treacherous known to
civilized diplomacy does not weaken
the force of the facts. The secrecy
emphasizes the treachery. Had secret
orders been obeyed. or other like or
ders not miscarried war would have
been openly inaugurated at a point 500
miles from Fort Sumter long before
Fort Sumter was fired on That the
first open clash was at Fort Sumter
was an accident, caused by msfit in
Abraham Lincoln's schemes to force
war at any risk or cost
Cites Alleged Armistices
There was a solemn agreement, an
armistice, existing at Charleston, en-
tered into by the United States govern
ment and South Carolina officials on
December 6, 1861 and special agree
ment, armistice, at Pensacola, entered
into by the United States and Florida
authorities on January 20, 1S61-both
filed in United States War and Navy
departm ents-by which the United
States agreed not to attempt to rein
force Major Anderson or Pickens, and
South Carolina, Florida and the Con
federate authorities agreed to make no
attack on Major Anderson or Fort Pick
ems while these solemn agreements were
observed.
ITO violate an armistice is considered
a treacherous act of war. For either
party to prepare to act against point
covered by an armstice is an act of
war. 1t has been held, and rightly, that
for any person to visit a fertilization
where an armistice exists with the in
tent to advise or plan means or meth
DDS to strengthen such Notifications is
the act of spy, a reinforcement and
an act of war. The first who renders
force necessary to defend and protect
right is the 'aggressor' in war. So
that any act, any order intended to