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“Abraham Lincoln – America’s 16^th President” 

Handout #2 // February 4, 2006 

Here are some facts about Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) that generally are not included in many American history textbooks or encyclopedias: 

·        Abraham Lincoln confessed that he did not become a Christian until after he had viewed the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.  Here is a quote by Lincoln concerning his conversion to Jesus Christ: “When I left Springfield [Illinois], I asked the people to pray for me; I was not a Christian.  When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian.  But when I saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers [i.e., at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1863], I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.  I do love Jesus [Christ].”

·        President Lincoln turned down loans (with heavy-duty interest) from the international banksters.  The banksters offered these loans to help finance the Union’s war effort during the American Civil War of 1861-1865.

·        Lincoln tried to warn the American people about the international banksters and large corporations.  Here is a quote made by Lincoln on this topic shortly before his assassination: “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me, and causes me to tremble for the safety of our country.  CORPORATIONS have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”  Lincoln also said: “The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity.  It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy.  It denounces, as ‘public enemies’, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.”

·        President Lincoln knew who had fomented the American Civil War of 1861-1865.  He said: “This [American Civil] war [of 1861-1865] would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits.  We owe it to popery that we now see our land reddened with the blood of her noblest sons.  Though there were great differences of opinion between the South and the North on the question of slavery, neither Jeff Davis [President of the Confederacy] nor anyone of the leading men of the Confederacy would have dared to attack the North, had they not relied on the promises of the Jesuits, that under the mask of Democracy, the money and arms of the Roman Catholic, even the arms of France, were at their disposal if they would attack us.”

• Most of the above-listed historical FACTS have been deliberately omitted in American history textbooks.  ((NOTE: Who has wielded such power over our mainstream media, and over the publishers of American history textbooks, that they have been able to keep most of this information from the majority of the American people?  Who (or, what institution) benefits from these “historical omissions”?  Cui bono?))

            For additional information on the Civil War, please go to either www.pastorbutch.com (click on the “Tackling the Tough Topics” box) or www.tacklingthetoughtopics.net, and then please read TTT #60, “The Civil War and Abraham Lincoln”.