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Florida Historical Quarterly Volume 71 Number 1 Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume Article 1 71, Number 1 1992 Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 71, Number 1 Florida Historical Society [email protected] Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Florida Historical Quarterly by an authorized editor of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Society, Florida Historical (1992) "Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 71, Number 1," Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 71 : No. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol71/iss1/1 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 71, Number 1 Published by STARS, 1992 1 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 71 [1992], No. 1, Art. 1 COVER The first Fort Lauderdale bus-taxi service (c. 1916) was operated by Charles Swaggerty from a garage located on North New River Drive between Andrews and Brickell avenues. Photograph courtesy Broward County Historical Commission. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol71/iss1/1 2 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 71, Number 1 Historical FLORIDA HISTORICAL Volume LXXI, Number 1 July 1992 The Florida Historical Quarterly (ISSN 0015-4113) is published by the Florida Historical Society, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620, and is printed by E. O. Painter Printing Co., DeLeon Springs, FL. Second-class postage paid at Tampa, FL, and at additional mailing office. POST- MASTER: Send address changes to the Florida Historical Society, P. O. Box 290197, Tampa, FL 33687. Copyright 1992 by the Florida Historical Society, Tampa, Florida. Published by STARS, 1992 3 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 71 [1992], No. 1, Art. 1 THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Samuel Proctor, Editor Mark I. Greenberg, Editorial Assistant EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD David R. Colburn University of Florida Herbert J. Doherty University of Florida Michael V. Gannon University of Florida John K. Mahon University of Florida (Emeritus) Joe M. Richardson Florida State University Jerrell H. Shofner University of Central Florida Charlton W. Tebeau University of Miami (Emeritus) Correspondence concerning contributions, books for review, and all editorial matters should be addressed to the Editor, Florida Historical Quarterly, Box 14045, University Station, Gainesville, Florida 32604-2045. The Quarterly is interested in articles and documents pertaining to the history of Florida. 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Books to be reviewed should be sent to the Editor to- gether with price and information on how they may be ordered. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol71/iss1/1 4 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 71, Number 1 Table of Contents FREE SPEECH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: THE ENOCH MARVIN BANKS CASE Fred Arthur Bailey 1 WHITE ROBES AND CROSSES: FATHER JOHN CONOLEY, THE Ku KLUX KLAN, AND THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA Stephen R. Prescott 18 UNPRETENDING SERVICE: THE JAMES L. DAVIS, THE TAHOMA, AND THE EAST GULF BLOCKADING SQUADRON David J. Coles 41 NOTES AND DOCUMENTS EAST FLORIDA PAPERS, 1784-1821 Sherry Johnson 63 FLORIDA HISTORY IN PERIODICALS . 70 B OOK R EVIEWS . 79 B OOK NOTES . 113 HISTORY NEWS . 123 Published by STARS, 1992 5 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 71 [1992], No. 1, Art. 1 BOOK REVIEWS THE FLORIDA READER: VISIONS OF PARADISE FROM 1530 TO THE PRESENT, edited by Maurice O’Sullivan, Jr., and Jack C. Lane reviewed by Marjory Bartlett Sanger PLANT'S PALACE: HENRY PLANT AND THE TAMPA BAY HOTEL, by James W. Covington and Tommy L. Thompson reviewed by Thomas Graham SPEAKING OF FLORIDA, by William Pohl and John Ames reviewed by Stuart McIver A COLLEGE TELLS ITS STORY: AN ORAL HISTORY OF FLORIDA COMMUNITY COLLEGE AT JACKSONVILLE, 1963-1991, by Robert B. Gentry reviewed by George Hallam CONCHTOWN USA: BAHAMIAN FISHERFOLK IN RIVIERA BEACH, FLORIDA, by Charles C. Foster reviewed by Thelma Peters GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN FLORIDA, edited by Robert J. Huckshorn reviewed by Robert E. Crew FLORIDA'S PAST: PEOPLE AND EVENTS THAT SHAPED THE STATE, VOLUME III, by Gene Burnett reviewed by E. W. Carswell IN SEARCH OF COLUMBUS: THE SOURCES FOR THE FIRST VOYAGE, by David Henige reviewed by William F. Keegan THE AMERICAN SOUTH: A HISTORY, by William J. Cooper, Jr., and Thomas E. Terrill reviewed by Jon L. Wakelyn RISE AND FALL OF THE PLANTATION COMPLEX: ESSAYS IN ATLANTIC HIS- TORY, by Philip D. Curtin reviewed by Douglas R. Egerton SLAVERY ATTACKED: SOUTHERN SLAVES AND THEIR ALLIES, 1619-1865, by Merton L. Dillon reviewed by Larry E. Rivers ON THE ALTAR OF FREEDOM: A BLACK SOLDIER'S CIVIL WAR LETTERS FROM THE FRONT, CORPORAL JAMES HENRY GOODING, edited by Virginia Matzke Adams reviewed by William Nulty CONFEDERATE GOLIATH: THE BATTLE OF FORT FISHER, by Rod Gragg reviewed by Walker Blanton WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD: LINCOLN'S RIGHT HAND, by John M. Taylor reviewed by John M. Belohlavek IN JOY AND IN SORROW: WOMEN, FAMILY, AND MARRIAGE IN THE VICTORIAN SOUTH, 1830-1900, edited by Carol Bleser reviewed by Shirley Leckie UNTIL JUSTICE ROLLS DOWN: THE BIRMINGHAM CHURCH BOMBING CASE, by Frank Sikora reviewed by Tom Wagy THE PATRIARCH: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BINGHAM DYNASTY, by Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones reviewed by Joseph Frazier Wall GUNNAR MYRDAL AND AMERICA'S CONSCIENCE: SOCIAL ENGINEERING AND RURAL LIBERALISM, 1938-1987, by Walter A. Jackson reviewed by Steven F. Lawson WEAKNESS IS A CRIME: THE LIFE OF BERNARR MACFADDEN, by Robert Ernst reviewed by Merlin G. Cox ATLAS OF AMERICAN INDIAN AFFAIRS, by Francis Paul Prucha reviewed by R. David Edmunds https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol71/iss1/1 6 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 71, Number 1 FREE SPEECH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: THE ENOCH MARVIN BANKS CASE by F RED A RTHUR B AILEY T the November 1911 meeting of the United Daughters of A the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia, reports by state division presidents constituted an important ritual. The women drew strength from each successful membership drive, monu- ment raised, child educated, and aging veteran comforted—all to the greater glory of their southern heritage. Among the hon- ored speakers was Florida’s Sister Esther Carlotta. She graciously credited accomplishments in her state to her organization’s en- thusiastic and patriotic membership.1 Only once did she call at- tention to her own efforts. Representing her state division, she had personally “protested against the retention in the Chair of History,” at the University of Florida, “of a man whose published writings proved him so unjust to the South’s attitude in 1861 as to unfit him for that position.” In triumph she reported, “His place has been filled by another.”2 As Sister Carlotta spoke, Enoch Marvin Banks, the subject of her wrath, lay dying at his sister’s home in Newnan, Georgia. His demise on November 21, 1911, brought to a quiet conclusion an intense series of events that not only had forced his resignation as a University of Florida professor but also had demonstrated the remorseless commitment of southern patriotic societies—the United Confederate Veterans, Sons of the Confederate Veter- ans, and United Daughters of the Confederacy—to their in- Fred Arthur Bailey is professor of history at Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas. 1. Sister Esther Carlotta (1864-1944), born in Richmond, Virginia, and a member of Sisters of the Resurrection—an Episcopal order in St. Augus- tine—served as seventh president of the Florida United Daughters of the Confederacy from 1909 to 1916. See Cathryn Garth Lancaster, Early Years of the Florida Division UDC, 1896-1921 (n.p., 1983). 2. Minutes of the Eighteenth Annual Convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (Puducah, KY, 1911), 323-24. [1] Published by STARS, 1992 7 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 71 [1992], No. 1, Art. 1 2 F LORIDA H ISTORICAL Q UARTERLY terpretation of the past.3 Banks had offended them by publishing in the Independent, an academic magazine published in New York, an article entitled “A Semi-Centennial View of Secession.” It was a modest, scholarly article that had first been presented as a discussion paper before the faculty Atheneum Club.4 In his essay, Banks reasoned that bathed in the “calm light of history,” modern Southerners should willingly admit that “slavery was . an anachronism in the nineteenth century,” that “a confederacy with the recognized right of secession was not the best form of union,” and that “the North was relatively in the right, while the South was relatively in the wrong.“5 Blithely unaware of the forces of pragmatic politics, Professor Banks assumed that a southern scholar might pursue freedom of thought wherever it led him. He failed to reckon with Confederate loyalists implac- ably determined to preserve their own cultural values regardless of historical reality. The overwhelmingly negative response to Banks’s article demonstrated that even fifty years after Fort Sumter, powerful interests remained committed to the “Lost Cause.” The Civil War had been a clash between two irreconcilable ideologies.