secrets of the Lincoln assassination

1)     based in part on the 1974 discovery of the Booth diary 18 "missing" pages:

  "Though on opposite sides of a civil war, the Northern speculators and the Confederate politicians had a common commodity problem.  The speculators needed cotton.  The South needed meat.  The Union's blockade prevented cotton from leaving the South."  After the 1864 election, Booth met with banker-financier

Jay Cooke (shown above) at the Astor House in New York.  Cooke's brother Henry was also in attendance and spoke highly of the aforementioned Judah Benjamin.  This was a curious circumstance in that Mr. Benjamin was one of the top men in the Confederacy whereas Cooke was one of the bankers financing the Union side in the war. Also in attendance at the meeting were "Thurlow Weed, Samuel Noble, a New York Cotton broker, and Radical Republican Zachariah Chandler, Michigan senator."

  "In his diary Booth later recorded, 'Each and every one asserted that he had dealings with the Confederate States and would continue to whenever possible.'"

  According to the authors (B & S), the link between most or all of these groups was economic.  Due to the Union blockade of the Confederacy, the South, northern speculators, and the British were all suffering.  Because the South could not export its cotton, mills in Britain and France were shutting down.  The blockade also cut off Northern moneymen from lucrative investments in the cotton trade.

  According to the recently recovered Booth diary pages, while in Montreal near the end of 1864 Booth saw National Detective Police (NDP) head Lafayette Baker in the company of Confederate agent Nathaniel Beverly Tucker.  Later that day, Booth met with Tucker and Canadian Confederate secret service chief Jacob Thompson.  Booth delivered coded messages to each of them and Thompson gave Booth a satchel containing $50,000 in bank notes.   He was to deliver $20,000 of this money to Senator Benjamin Wade, co-author of the previously mentioned Wade-Davis Bill.  Thus, if the missing Booth diary pages are to be believed, we have evident collusion between Radical Republicans and the Confederate secret service.  Furthermore, some connection between the head of the Union's NDP and the southern secret service seems likely.     -Balsiger and Sellier:  Lincoln Conspiracy, 1977

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 -Hendrie:  Antichrist, 2015, p. 542  

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                           -Hagger:  Secret Founding of America, 2016

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                               -Jameson:  Return of Assassin Booth, 1998

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5)    The banks of leading American cities would not accept U.S. Treasury notes.  But the day the New York banks suspended, Lincoln's bill for the government to print $150 million in Federal money was introduced in the House of Representatives.  The notes, to be printed green, would come to be called "greenbacks."  Floor debate occurred in late January. New York's bankers'-boy Congressman Roscoe Conkling protested against the projected currency issue, citing as his authority in political economy, the London Times, which, he said, hails the $150 million as the dawn of American bankruptcy, the downfall of American credit.  For its part, the London Times later confessed that they did not know why greenbacks did not destroy the U.S. economy, contrary to their supposed laws of economics.

  Ohio's Congressman John Bingham struck back against "efforts made to lay the power of the American people to control their currency, a power essential to their interests, at the feet of the brokers and of city bankers who have not a tittle of authority, save by the assent or forebearance of the people to deal in their paper as money."²⁶

  Congress authorized the greenbacks, and on June 7, 1862, Secretary Chase asked for another $150 million issue.  The tariff act of July 14, 1862, again sharply increased the duties.  Lincoln and his adviser Henry Carey raised the average of duties on all imported goods from 15% to 33% by 1863, and then to 48% by 1866. Iron and steel tariffs were radically increased, virtually forcing into existence an American steel industry for the first time.

  Jay Cooke, banker of the Philadelphia Carey-led industrialists, was hired to sell small government bonds to the ordinary citizens; with 2,500 sub-agents, Cooke sold over $1.3 billion worth of bonds from 1862 to 1865.

  President Lincoln used more of his influence in Congress to press for his national banking bill, than for any other legislation.  New England and New York bankers instructed their congressmen, such as Sen. Roscoe Conkling, to defeat the proposal.  Lincoln's increasing prestige and authority won out, and he signed the National Currency Act on Feb. 25, 1863, and the National Bank Act on June 3, 1864.

  Lincoln's National Banking, while it was not the old Bank of the United States killed by banker mob leaders in the 1830's, was an important step back to national sovereignty and financial order.  The state-chartered banks did not have to apply for the new Federal charter, but Lincoln threatened to tax them heavily if they didn’t.  Only credit-worthy banks qualified, and they were subject to regulations as to minimum capitalization, reserve requirements, the definition of bad debts, public reporting on financial condition and ownership, and other elements of security for depositors.

  Every bank director had to be an American citizen, and three-quarters of a bank's directors had to be residents of the state in which the bank did business.  Each bank was limited in the interest rate it could charge, by its state's usury laws; or, if none were in effect, then to 7%.  If it were caught exceeding this limitation, it would forfeit the loan in question, and would have to refund to the victimized borrower twice what he had paid in interest.    -“The Lincoln Revolution”  by Anton Chaitkin, spring 1998   https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/fid_97-01/fid_981_lincoln.html

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6)         from Dark Union by Ray Neff and  L. Guttridge

 About 100 years after Abraham Lincoln’s death,

Dr. Ray Neff (shown above), a health sciences professor at Indiana State University with a chemistry background, de-ciphered coded messages left by

Colonel Lafayette Baker (shown above), Union spymaster.  An inventory of Baker’s possessions showed he owned bound volumes of “Colburn’s U.S. Magazine” for the years 1860 to 1865 – with one exception: the volume for the first half of 1864 is not listed in the inventory. Ray Neff had come across the volume from the latter half of 1864. [1]

  Baker’s decoded message from the latter-half volume of Colburn’s U.S. Magazine (1864) told of a coup d’état within the Union itself.  “There were at least eleven members of Congress involved in the plot, no less than twelve Army officers, three Naval officers and at least twenty four civilians, of which one was a governor of a loyal state.  Five were bankers of great repute, three were nationally known newspapermen and eleven were industrialists of great repute and wealth.” [1]

  De-ciphering Baker’s message, it was learned that the specific names of the members of Congress, military officers, bankers, newspapermen and others could be found in Volume One.  But Volume One of Baker’s copy of Colburn’s U.S. Magazine for 1864 could not be located. [1]  https://ersjdamoo.wordpress.com/2015/07/25/list-of-the-traitors/

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7)     2008   

John Wilkes Booth was a Confederate Secret Services agent.  It is not known, and may never be known, when or exactly under what circumstances he was recruited and accepted his role as such, but that he was an agent and was in regular contact with other agents, who had ties to the Confederate leadership, or who had ties to other agents who had such ties, has been firmly established.  His sister, Asia, in her memoir, The Unlocked Book: A Memoir of John Wilkes Booth by His Sister, written before 1875, but not published until 1938, described her brother as “a spy, a blockade-runner, a rebel!”.

  Booth told Asia that he was involved in the “underground” and that the work demanded travel.  The unexplained trips, the strange visitors at all hours, the callused hands “from nights of rowing,” to Asia it suddenly all made sense.

  It is well known that some years before the assassination and especially in the months leading up to it, Booth had frequent meetings with other operatives, doubtless higher level, in Montreal, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington.  We may safely conclude that he didn’t have these meetings for the purpose of discussing theater.   http://clevelandcivilwarroundtable.com/articles/lincoln/confederate_complicity3.htm 

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