Well, there are a lot of folks who report that he did. Here is just one report I found doing a Google. There are many more.
http://www.markdankof.com/RealLincolnbookreview.htm

It would be easy to go back and forth about this. I for one would have never before thought this possible prior to doing some digging. What I have found is not just Abe, but many in our political history that were corrupted by special interests to take extreme positions, and I think the Civil War was an extreme.

The thing I am not really sure of is what our nation might be like if we had followed the States Rights model that the Constitution set in place for us. It is obvious that greed changed the course of what the original framers intended, and that same greed is bringing us into a new realm of political reality ...even as I type.

Yes, we have change - but is it good change? Personally I think not.

Edit w/ PS.
The last question I posed may very well be answered in my next read 'How Capitalism saved America'. That will surely open a whole new can of worms. :)



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