[lentulusgracchus]

Secession is not rebellion.

Amen, brother. When will our desperately floundering interlocutors finally accept therapy on their denial?

Of course, so much of their false pride is bound up in their triumphalist lore, handed down from ...... hmp. Who's it handed down from? Thad Stevens? Stanton? Stanton rifled Booth's diary. That sounds like the beginnings of legend-building and the Memory Hole right there.

[Non-Sequitur]

When will our desperately floundering interlocutors finally accept therapy on their denial?

It isn't our side that is in denial.

[4CJ]

That sounds like the beginnings of legend-building and the Memory Hole right there.

Lincoln's son destroyed much of Lincoln's unfavourable papers according to Herndon IIRC.