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RE: The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 - Quick History #2
It is a two-sided coin with Lincoln. Who knows how someone else would have handled the situation.
If the country did split, there would probably have been a bigger and more deadly war between the two countries later.
I'm actually surprised that another country didn't try to take advantage of the situation. Well, Mexico tried and we all know how that ended for them.
That is true, you could argue Lincoln a number of ways. It was a time of war, and the country was falling apart, maybe he went to far maybe not. But his lasting impact was that of centralization, which I personally dislike.