To provoke the South into defending itself.
Can you point out the descrepancies you see in what you posted, and what the clerk Chew delivered to Governor Pickens:... "I am directed by the President of the United States to notify you to expect an attempt will be made to supply Fort-Sumpter with provisions only; and that, if such attempt be not resisted, no effort to throw in men, arms, or amunition will be made, without further notice, or in case of an attack upon the Fort"
Refer to post 434
... SIR: This letter will be landed to you by Captain G. V. Fox, ex-officer of the Navy, and a gentleman of high standing, as well as possessed of extraordinary nautical ability. He is charged by high authority here with the command of an expedition, under cover of certain ships of war, whose object is to re-enforce Fort Sumter. To embark with Captain Fox you will cause a detachment of recruits, say about two hundred, to be immediately organized at Fort Columbus, with a competent number of officers, arms, ammunition, and subsistence. A large surplus of the latter-indeed, as great as the vessels of the expedition can take-with other necessaries, will be needed for the augmented garrison of Fort Sumter...
President Lincoln didn't lie. He had no earthly reason to.
LOL - He lied.
Attempts to besmirch his memory will always founder on the record.
This isn't about "besmirching" anyone, it's just history. It's the record. He lied.
To provoke the South into defending itself.
LOL
Straight from "1984".
Walt
I don't see anything inconsistent with what President Lincoln told the rebel authorities.
Two hundred recruits and the 65 men in Sumter were not going to faze the rebels. I don't know exactly, but I bet there were at least 10,000 armed rebels in and around Charleston.
Maybe a source on that can be cited. General Scott definitely told the president that at least 20,000 men would be required to open the port.
It's -so- funny how hard the neo-rebs work to catch ol' Honest Abe in a lie.
Walt
That he did, as was frequently the case with Lincoln. You will never get Walt to admit it though, as he has convinced himself of Lincoln's diety level of perfection. He will never concede a fault in his false god - not even that Lincoln forgot to tie his shoe lace one morning, much less that he sinned or lied.
One time I pointed out Lincoln's lie over the very subject of this thread's article - the other 13th amendment. In addition to endorsing that amendment in his inaugural address, Lincoln claimed to have not yet read the text of it in that speech as of March 4, 1861. To demonstrate that this was a lie, I posted a December 26, 1860 letter to Lincoln from William Seward in which the latter informed the former that he had proposed that very same amendment before committee. I also quoted an eyewitness historical account sayin that Lincoln lobbied Congress extensively on the amendment before his inauguration.
Along with the fact that he paraphrased the amendment in his inaugural, both are conclusive proof that he was lying when he claimed not to have seen it on March 4, 1861. But Walt couldn't even bring himself to admit that! He actually adopted a line of argument saying that Lincoln recieved Seward's letter and worked to pass the thing, but had never, in all that time, bothered to read the two lines of text of the same amendment he was pushing and paraphrasing in his speeches. It was basically "yeah, he did all that stuff with it but he never read the thing while he was doing it"!
I'm afraid that Walt is beyond the help of any sane person on matters such as these. He is not in the business of history. Nor is he even in the business of simply respecting or upholding Abe Lincoln. His trade is the worship of Lincoln and his method is to stomp out, decry, and belittle anything and everything that does not share in or lend support to his act of idolatry.