[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.

[Aurelius]

"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."

The papers to which I referred were some of the most influential papers in the North. They were indicative of serious opinion unlike the kind of Southern yellow rag rant sheets that published the kinds of things you are describing. There is a difference and you know it.