But there's no "cherry-picking" when the long list of quotes posted by rockrr is totally representative of the entire body of reasons published by secessionists at the time.
dsc: "And what are you doing pinging in people who have been arguing with me on other topics?
Trying to get a mob together?"
Nonsense, simply courtesy to those who've engaged you on this thread.
As for "mob", there's no such thing as a "mob" on Free Republic, simply a number of people interested in the same topic.
dsc: "This is a cult with some people, and no amount of evidence or argumentation can shake their belief.
I don’t propose to become entangled with that again."
Total nonsense.
The fact is, you have no "evidence or argumentation" which could convince anybody not already committed to your point of view.
dsc: "As for contradicting 'in any way,' there is a large amount of material doing just that in the public record.
There’s everything from diaries to filmed statements of former Confederates."
No, in fact there is nothing -- zero, zip, nada data -- from the time, supporting the Lost Cause myth.
All of it, every bit, comes long after the fact by people hoping to explain the inexplicable.
Indeed, by definition, the difference between real history and myth is what we have evidence for versus what was concocted after the fact to justify it.
dsc: "Any man of good faith is free to find it for himself, without demanding that I type it in here.
Of course, that would require that a person be more interested in finding the truth than in 'winning' online arguments."
Sure, on occasion I've attempted to read books supporting the Lost Cause, but could never get through them, because they are so full of nonsense & lies, they just make me angry.
So, if you wish to argue the Lost Cause here, you'll need to do better than that.
But you won't, will you, because you have no data and your beliefs aren't based on data anyway, are they?
Instead: "no amount of evidence or argumentation can shake their your belief," right?
“But there’s no “cherry-picking” when the long list of quotes posted by rockrr is totally representative of the entire body of reasons published by secessionists at the time.”
Which it most certainly is not. It is “totally representative” of what you believe, and nothing more.
“As for “mob”, there’s no such thing as a “mob” on Free Republic”
Nonsense.
“The fact is, you have no “evidence or argumentation” which could convince anybody not already committed to your point of view.”
Wrong again. It’s been typed in here on multiple occasions. Operating on the “pearls before swine” principle, I don’t propose to type it in again.
“No, in fact there is nothing — zero, zip, nada data — from the time, supporting the (truth).”
What a lie. Of course there is.
“All of it, every bit, comes long after the fact by people hoping to explain the inexplicable.”
And another lie.
Your purblind ferocity shows that it is useless to try and reason with you. Once again I gave you the courtesy of a reply; I don’t propose to do so again.