Trail of blood 2

Following Lincoln's threat of invasion if States refused to pay the 52% Morrill tax, ten southern States lawfully secede from the Union between December 1860 and February 1861:"The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere." - Abraham Lincoln in his Inaugural Address Monday, March 4, 1861
Against the advice of his generals and congress, Lincoln initiated the so-called "Civil War" in April of 1861, one month after Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated. In his inaugural speech Lincoln promised to do nothing about slavery: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." It was only when Lincoln was loosing the war that he issued the emancipation proclamation where he proclaimed that slaves in the Nations of the Confederate States were free.
To pay for the 'civil war, on the 5th of August 1861, Congress passes the first National income tax and by the 21st of that month the first paper currency was issued.
Lincoln said, "The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. The banking powers are more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. They denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw light upon their crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe. Corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow. The money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed."
In February 1863, Congress established another National Banking system. The bankers were intending to charge between 24% and 36% interest rates for money to finance the war. To avoid the interest, Lincoln ordered the printing of $450 million in bank notes guaranteed by the U.S. government. "The government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency. Creating and issuing money is the supreme prerogative of government and is its greatest creative opportunity. Adopting these principles will save the taxpayers immense sums of interest and money will cease to be the master and become the servant of humanity." The notes were called "Greenbacks" and effectively eliminated the interest the private banks charged on notes they issued.
On April 9, 1865 following Lincoln's brutal, immoral and cruel scorched earth war policy, Lee surrendered at Appomattox. Johnston's army surrendered on April 26, 1865.
On Apr 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated and Congress revoked the Greenback Law and enacted, in its place, the National Banking Act supporting privately owned national banks. The associates of the President Lincoln's assassin were according to many, on the payroll of the Rothschild's. The Nation was thrown into a state of constant debt, paying interest to bankers who created cash.
More U.S. citizens died from Lincon's war than all the wars combined up to, but not including the Bush's wars.
Lincoln was arguably one of the most dishonest and disastrous Presidents this Nation has seen, running tie perhaps with Franklyn Delaware Roosevelt and George W. Bush. The Federal government naturally gives Lincoln great importance because it was Lincoln who established large central federal government positions paid for by taxing the people. State run schools go as far as to teach students that Abraham Lincoln was a honest hero.