[5veingrafts]

I think I got your point. Lincoln destroyed the country by keeping it together. Kind of the inverse of "We had to destroy the village to save it." Viet Nam 1970.

[Held_to_Ransom]

Lincoln saved the south from destroying itself with poverty, ignorance, corruption and the barbarism of slavery.

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