Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865) 1

"The Great Emancipator" was really a power hungry tyrannical scumbag that had people imprisoned, whisked away, deported and more than likely murdered for having anti-war views, either written or verbal. Slavery would have died out in the south anyway, it was unethical and immoral. As a result of the north winning the Civil War, the federal government began the trend of assuming more and more control of our lives (a trend that continues today) and the rights of states became almost nonexistent.