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Another reason that some may want to throw darts at the Catholics is because the Jesuit order was very strong in Southern Maryland during the 18th and 19th centuries and were slave holders on farms that the order owned up until the 1840s and 50s. Since most of the conspirators had Maryland backgrounds that tainted the state as a whole. I have never understood what appears to be even a lingering distrust in the Jesuit order - even likening them to the so-called Illuminati.

BTW: The claim that was made about Booth converting to Catholicism shortly before the assassination has never been proven. Supposedly Archbishop Spalding did the conversion, but no one has found any church records to prove it.