[Aurelius]

"The difference is that I'm admitting it and you're trying to pass of newspaper editorials as evidence."

It is evidence of perception in the north, and that is how I presented it. And you either are incapable of dealing with even the least bit of subtle distinction or you are back to your old tricks of misrepresenting you antagonist's position.

[Non-Sequitur]

It is your perception</b of what the North was thinking based on your analysis of a handful of newpaper editorials. If I used your standards I would believe that, based on newspaper editorials in the south, that the cause of the southern rebellion was because Lincoln was going to force all their daughters to marry black men.