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“OK, so if he never said the war was about anything else then how can I provide a quote to that effect? Tell me that.”

Not what I said. I said prove that the quote you provided is the only one on the topic. All you have to do is peruse everything the man said to find an absence of any other quotes on the topic. Otherwise, what is represented may or may not be the whole of his thinking on the matter.

” Sure you are. Otherwise you wouldn’t be off on one of your mouth foaming rants.”

Nope. No foam. No rant. Just logic.

“But scholarship isn’t just a Northern tactic.”

Indeed, it often does not even exist.

“You could provide your own quotes showing other points of view.”

I could, but we weren’t addressing my point view. We were addressing your point of view. I have pretty much establish that yours is based on interpretive quotes as demonstrated by the use of brackets. If you concede the point then we can go to my point of view. If not, why move on to a new point of view when we haven’t finished with the first one. Unless, of course, you are employing a tactic to hide your weak position.

“Toombs and others blathered on about tariffs and such, even though evidence indicates the South actually imported little and paid less in tariffs. Go ahead and trot them out.”

Ah.. Yet a third and unrelated point of discussion. Further demonstrating the weakness of the first.

You mean, “Nope. Don’t know any” don’t you?

Nope. Mean exactly what I said. But you seldom if ever address what is actually said, choosing instead to introduce other rabbits to chase in hopes that others will be distracted and not realize that you pathetically lost the first point.

Now, back to where we started. Prove that the quotes provided represent the total thinking about the subject as expressed in documentation.

Not what I said. I said prove that the quote you provided is the only one on the topic. All you have to do is peruse everything the man said to find an absence of any other quotes on the topic. Otherwise, what is represented may or may not be the whole of his thinking on the matter.

OK, I did that and didn't find any. Happy now?

Not what I said. I said prove that the quote you provided is the only one on the topic. All you have to do is peruse everything the man said to find an absence of any other quotes on the topic. Otherwise, what is represented may or may not be the whole of his thinking on the matter.

So you want more quotes from Hunter on the subject of slavery? Okay.

"There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery."