[Darteaus94025]

This list is a series of allegations, and the burden of proof rests with the accuser.

It’s a fool’s errand to go chasing down the evidence for/against the allegations of another, and then debating the weight of each detail of each allegation.

A civil war is the most ugly of wars, and the American civil war was the first Industrial Age war.

I don’t doubt that many un- and extra- Constitutional acts were perpetrated, and the emperical evidence seems to indicate that Lincoln’s preservation of the Union was a better outcome than it’s dissolution.

[Nervous Tick]

>> the burden of proof rests with the accuser... It’s a fool’s errand to go chasing down the evidence for/against the allegations of another

I don’t agree that that’s true, particularly in cases where the allegations have obvious merit. As in this one.

Neither do the courts agree with you, in general.

Therefore, you yourself are an accuser. Please provide proof (or at least, evidence) of your sweeping generalization. ;-)

[Trod Upon]

the emperical evidence seems to indicate that Lincoln’s preservation of the Union was a better outcome than it’s dissolution.

What evidence is that? How do we know, for instance, that things might not have turned out better if the Confederacy had been allowed to leave and we avoided the ruinous war? It seems unknowable to me.