Lincoln was printing greenbacks to pay for war before or during all of that.

The founding fathers failed to prohibit the federal government from issuing fuddy duddy fiat as money. As a result, the civil war bankrupted the USA, which led to the end of bimetallism, which led to the “golden cross,” which led to the creation of the Fed, which led to one score and a century of war!

Money printing is the ultimate enabler. And the ((founding fathers)) somehow failed to make it impossible, even after the contemporaneous experience of Cantillon and the Livre. There was no excuse! We are left to conclude they intended the natural consequences of their omission.