Republican (nationalist) President Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, in a letter to Eliza P. Gurney writes “He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.”

       [added 4/15/2022] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.

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Authority:

“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface

References:

“To Eliza P. Gurney, “Abraham Lincoln, Collected Works, edited by Roy P. Basler, seven volumes, (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 7:535.

The Real Lincoln—LewRockwell.com.htm
www.lewrockwell.com/2013/06/thomas-dilorenzo/the-real-lincoln-2/

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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