Title: THE HISTORY OF MONEY Abraham Lincoln's Greenback Dollar
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Content: An old    friend of Lincoln's, Colonel Dick Taylor of Chicago was put in    charge of solving the problem of how to finance the war. His    solution is recorded as this. " Just get Congress to pass a    bill authorising the printing of full legal tender treasury    notes... and pay your soldiers with them and go ahead and win your    war with them also." Colonel Dick Taylor When Lincoln    asked if the people of America would accept the notes Taylor said. "The people or anyone else will not have any choice in the    matter, if you make them full legal tender. They will have the    full sanction of the government and be just as good as any money; as Congress is given that express right by the Constitution." Colonel Dick Taylor 1 Lincoln agreed to try this solution and printed 450 million    dollars worth of the new bills using green ink on the back to    distinguish them from other notes. " The government should    create, issue and circulate all the currency and credit needed to    satisfy the spending power of the government and the buying power    of consumers..... The privilege of creating and issuing money is    not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but it is the    Government's greatest creative opportunity. By the adoption of    these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be    satisfied.