[HandyDandy]

Yes, conspiracy. Don’t tell me you already forgot about all the monied northern liberal bankers and the WashingtonDC/New York establishment and media that was behind Abe. You are the one who created them out of thin air. Now you drop all that to say it was Lincoln and Lincoln only? You sound conflicted. Please don’t reply to tell me you didn’t read this post. How about if you just don’t reply so that I will know you read it?

[DiogenesLamp]

You are deliberately mixing up the context of what was being discussed. Were you to focus on the specifics of the conversation, you would be aware that it was about Lincoln's sending of the war fleet against the South. *THAT* was all Lincoln.

Sure, he may have had backers urging him to do something, anything to stop those Southerners from capturing all that European capital that they were used to have going through their fingers, but this tactic of sending a war fleet that had orders to attack, but due to some incredibly lucky "screwup" would not actually attack, that was all Lincoln. No conspiracy about that part.