[PeaRidge]

You can take the quote and misinterpret it if you take pride in the result of your work. That is the nature of your posts.

Mary Chestnut in her memoirs wrote of the fear of slave rebellions.

On the very eve of secession, one of my relatives wrote to her daughter expressing the great fear of negro backlash.

And if you choose not to believe this, read the books on the subject written by those that experienced it.

[Ditto]

The South had been terrified of slave rebellions since the Haitian and Jamaican revolts of the 1790s --- over 60 years before Lincoln became president. In fact, there had been localized rebellions in both the South and North even before that time.

It seems that fear of slave Rebellions was part of the price paid in return for "maintaining institutions."

The election of Lincoln didn't change anything in regard to slave rebellions.

[Non-Sequitur]

That is the nature of your posts.

When it comes to misquoting and/or misinterpreting then I take a distant second place to you and your compatriots.