The point here is that you don't get to just declare something "true" simply because someone printed it.
Likewise the fact that none of the Rogery Taney biographers found the claim of a Taney arrest warrant supported by enough evidence to justify including it in any of their biographies of the Chief Justice is evidence that it never happened.
I think you once listed names of Taney biographers, and my recollection is that it was the typical class of Northern residents and graduates of Northern Universities which even today is going through another set of politically correct convulsions.
There is corroborating evidence for Lamon's claim. I read something the other day indicating there were three or four examples of corroboration for Lamon's claim. I recall reading a reference to it in a book about Baltimore which mentioned it, and the book was published back in the 19th century. I posted links to it last time this topic came up.
You do not want to believe historical facts that undermine your world view of Lincoln, and so you chose not to believe them, even when there is corroborating evidence.
Nor can you declare something to be untrue without evidence supporting it.
I think you once listed names of Taney biographers, and my recollection is that it was the typical class of Northern residents and graduates of Northern Universities which even today is going through another set of politically correct convulsions.
And my recollection is that you dismissed the whole body of their work merely because they found nothing to support the claim of the Taney arrest warrant. In other words, they don't fit your agenda. No other reason.
There is corroborating evidence for Lamon's claim. I read something the other day indicating there were three or four examples of corroboration for Lamon's claim.
Then by all means provide it. Hopefully it's something more than people accounting that Taney thought he'd be arrested.
You do not want to believe historical facts that undermine your world view of Lincoln, and so you chose not to believe them, even when there is corroborating evidence.
I don't believe the BS Taney arrest story because professional historians, people who spent considerable time researching Taney for their biographies of the man, and who stake their professional reputations on the accuracy of their work, have not found enough evidence of the arrest warrant to include it in their books. We're not talking one biographer who did include it and one who didn't. If that were the case then you're half-baked claims of bias might actually hold water. But none of them did. Zero. Zilch. Nada.