[capitan_refugio]

"...the tragedy was described as a gift from Heaven.... Or words to that effect. That ought to shut up the snarkers."

Two wrongs make a right? Sounds like a "logical fallacy" to me.

[lentulusgracchus]

Two wrongs make a right? Sounds like a "logical fallacy" to me.

Your ellipsis distorts substantively what I said. Which I've come to expect from you, Snark.

Lincoln's rep was rescued by his untimely and illegal demise. In that sense, Booth's crime rescued Lincoln's reputation from Lincoln's next series of crimes, which included the transportation of, and probably megadeaths among, the slaves he had so recently ordered emancipated.

Now that's enough of that.