Lincoln was not a particularly good guy. Emancipation was partly a cover for the National Banks Act or Treasury Act of 1863 to challenge the state banks and Independent Treasury, and to fund the war with a flat tax. The Civil War stamp taxes led to the foundation of the IRS income tax. Ironically, the American Revolution was fought in part over the issue of stamp taxes. Lincoln also favored sending slaves to Liberia in Africa in a form of gradual emancipation. history/news/5-things-you-may-not-know-about-lincoln-slavery-and-emancipation The Independent Treasury could not maintain adequate currency reserves in a real money system to fund war and that was a key learning and motivation for Ruling Elites in pursuing war. After all, thats what a real money system does - real money prevents Ruling Elites from engaging in their abject evil, as we see leveraged to an exponential degree today. The over-arching issue of the Civil War was of course to defeat States Rights. But the subversive move to bring back the US Central Bank under the control of private bankers, was a key mandate for Lincoln and is seldom discussed by historians. Likewise the role of the National Banks Act is seldom included in the usual states rights mix: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bank_Act In other words, destruction of the Independent Treasury was achieved in essence by 1893 with the end of the system occurring in 1913, and the Independent Treasury defunct by 1920; with the gold standard scrapped by 1933. The foregoing were key goals of the US Civil War, seldom addressed by historians. History is what most people called Historians agree on. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Treasury
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