Assassination of President Lincoln

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Last updated Sept 27, 2001

The Civil War Continues.

After the Civil War, most of the Southerners went back home and became loyal citizens once again.....But not all....The leaders went underground and in 1901 used that arch rebel Theodore Roosevelt to assassinate President McKinley and take over the government. Roosevelt founded the FBI - conFederate Bureau of Inquisition to spy on and murder loyal Americans. He was also responsible for the election of Woodrow Wilson who gave us the Federal Reserve Bank and the pope's Income Tax.

Salutations:
We have just received with all suitable welcome the persons sent by you to place in our hands your letter, dated the 23rd of September last. Not slight was the pleasure we experienced when we learned, from those persons and the letter, with what feelings of joy and gratitude, you were animated, illustrious and honorable President, as soon as you were informed of our letters to our venerable brother, John, Archbishop of New York, and John Archbishop of New Orleans, dated the 18th of October of last year, and in which we have with all our strength exerted and exhorted those venerable brothers that in their episcopal piety and solicitude, they should endeavor, with the most ardent zeal, and in our name to bring about the end of that fatal civil war which has broken out in those countries in order that the American people may obtain peace and concord and dwell charitably together. It is particularly agreeable to us that you illustrious and honorable President, and your people, were animated with the same desires of peace and tranquillity which we have in our letters inculcated upon our venerable brothers. May it please God at the same time to make the other peoples of America and their rulers, reflecting seriously how terrible is civil war, and what calamities it engenders, listen to inspirations of a calmer spirit and adopt resolutely the part of peace. As for us, we shall not cease

From the book, A Memoir of Jefferson Davis in two volumes, completed by his wife Varina Davis after his death. According to that book the main hope of the Confederate States lay in the military intervention of foreign countries. This letter gave de facto recognition to the Rebellion. President Lincoln on reading it exclaimed! "This letter of the Pope has entirely changed the nature and ground of the war." As King of the Papal States, the Pope was the only foreign power to do so. After this letter was published, President Lincoln was visited by a close friend (ex-priest Charles Chiniquy). Chiniquy tells us what transpired:

My dear President I answered, it is just that letter which brought me to your presence again. That letter is a poisoned arrow thrown by the Pope at you personally; it is your death warrant. Before the letter, every Catholic could see that their church as a whole was against this free Republic. However, a good number of liberty-loving Irish, German and French Catholics, following more the instincts of their noble nature than the degrading principles of their church, enrolled themselves under the banners of liberty, and have fought like heroes. To detach these men from the rank and file of the Northern armies, and force them to help the cause of the rebellion, became the main object of the Jesuits. Secret pressing letters were addressed from Rome to the bishops, ordering them to weaken your armies by detaching those men from you. The bishops refused; for they would be exposing themselves as traitors and be shot. But they advised the Pope to acknowledge, at once, the legitimacy of the Southern republic, and to take Jeff Davis under his supreme protection, by a letter, which would be read everywhere. That letter tell every Roman Catholic that you are a bloodthirsty tyrant fighting against a government which the infallible and holy Pope of Rome recognizes as legitimate. The Pope, by this letter, tells his blind slaves that you are outraging the God of heaven and earth, by continuing such a bloody. By this letter of the Pope to Jeff Davis you are not only an apostate, as you were thought before, whom every man had the right to kill, according to the canonical laws of Rome: but you are more vile, criminal and cruel that the horse thief, the public bandit, and the lawless brigand, robber and murderer. And my dear President, this is not a fancy imagination on my part, it is the unanimous explanation given me by a great number of the priests of Rome, with whom I have had occasion to speak on that subject. In the name of God, and in the name of our dear country, which is in so much need of your services, I plead that you pay more attention to protect your precious life, and not continue to expose it as you have done till now.

President Lincoln told Chiniquy his views on the Jesuits:

So many plots have already been made against my life, that it is a real miracle that they have all failed . . . But can we expect that God will make a perpetual miracle to save my life? I believe not. The Jesuits are so expert in those deeds of blood that Henry IV (king of France who was assassinated by the Jesuit Revaillac for giving liberty to his people), said that it was impossible to escape them, and he became their victim, thought he did all he could to protect himself. My escape from their hands, since the letter of the Pope to Jeff Davis has sharpened a million of daggers to pierce my breast, would be more that a miracle. . . . I know that Jesuits never forget nor forsake (never give up). Man must not care how and where he dies, provided he dies at the post of honor and duty.

From the description given by Sergeant Dye of the man who acted as monitor, calling the time three times in succession at short intervals, the last time calling "Ten minutes past ten," in front of the theatre, it will be remembered that the writer came to the conclusion that this was John H. Surratt. This conclusion was verified by this same witness on the trial of Surratt. Sergeant Dye had taken a seat on the platform in front of the theatre, and just before the conclusion of the second act of the play had his attention arrested by an elegantly-dressed man, who came out of the vestibule, and commenced to converse with a ruffianly-looking fellow. Then another joined them, and the three conversed together. The one who appeared to be the leader said, "I think he will come out now," referring, as the witness supposed, to the President. The President's carriage stood near the platform on which the witness was sitting, and one of the three passed out as far as the curbstone and looked into the carriage. It would seem that they had anticipated the possibility of his departure at the close of the second act, and had intended to assassinate him at the moment of his passing out of the door. Quite a crowd of people came out at the conclusion of the act, and Booth and his companions stood near the door, awaiting the opportunity which they sought. When most of the crowd had returned into the theatre, and the would be assassins saw that the President would remain to the close of the play, they began to prepare for his assassination in the theatre . . . Booth had left the side of his companion before this long enough to go into the saloon, where he drank a glass of whiskey, and then, as soon as the time had been called the third time, went at once into the theatre, and in less that ten minutes thereafter fired the fatal shot . . . The suspicions of Sergeant Dye having been aroused by the conduct of these three men, he naturally scanned them very closely, and testified that he had a good view, not only of the person, but of the face and features of the man who called the time, and had his image indelibly impressed on his memory. Upon being confronted by Surratt on his trial, he unhesitatingly and positively declared that he was the man.

After ending the traffic in slaves, President Lincoln planned to tackle the traffic in liquor!! This was another reason why Rome wanted him dead. . . . It was the glass of whiskey that nerved Booth to carry out his cowardly act. . . . The President never drank, despite the tremendous pressures of fighting the Civil War and saving the Union. He knew that alcohol was one of the devils most destructive weapons:

"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour" (I St. Peter 5:8).

Excerpts from the last public speech of Abraham Lincoln given on April 11, 1865:

And when the victory shall be complete - when there shall be neither a slave nor a drunkard on earth . . . In regards to the Great Book, I have only to say that it is the best gift which God has given to man. All the good from the Saviour of the world is communicated to us through this Book. But for this Book we could not know right from wrong. All those things to man are contained in it . . . Keep that temperance pledge and it will be the best act of your life.

In 1870 - just 5 years after the Civil War - Italian patriots, led by Giuseppe Garibaldi, liberated and unified Italy, and the Papal States were gone forever!

Interesting note: Giuseppe Garibaldi, the great Italian patriot and freedom fighter was considered for the top post in the Union Army by President Lincoln at the start of the war. This was before the Union finally found a winning General in U.S. Grant!

Excerpted from the great Christian classic Fifty Years in the "church" of Rome by Charles Chiniquy, published by Chick Publications

A History of the Great Conspiracy by General T. M. Harris, Patriot Pub. Co., Boston, 1890. (A member of the military tribunal that tried the assassins).

Lincoln and the Emperors by A.R Tyrner-Tyrnauer, London, 1962.(A gold mine of information from the Austrian State Archives).

Lincoln and the Russians by Albert A. Woldman, World Pub., Cleveland & New York, 1952.

An Inquiry into the Assassination of Lincoln by ex-priest Emmett McLoughlin, Citadel Press, Secaucus, NJ, 1977.