Lincoln Assasinated For Going Against Banks

[antiquefinder]

I'm not sure if this was ever discussed here, but I have done quite a bit of research on this theory. Was Lincoln assassinated because he went against the banks? The banks wanted to charge people interest, and Lincoln knew it was wrong to do that. So that is where greenbacks came into play. With greenbacks, no one would be charged interest, just what they owed. This is where a family of bankers named Rothschild is said to have ordered Lincoln's assassination.

[RJNorton]

Hi Gloria. Here is one historian's view (regarding international bankers being involved). Dr. William Hanchett, author of the Lincoln Murder Conspiracies, thought the idea that international bankers assassinated Lincoln was "lunacy." He wrote, "Another lunacy with devoted partisans is that Lincoln was done in by a conspiracy of international bankers, led by the Rothschilds, who objected to his protectionist policies and wanted him removed so they could establish their domination of the American economy."

Bankers were mentioned in Ray Neff's cipher messages, but I think their authenticity has been questioned.

[antiquefinder]

I don't think this should be dismissed so quickly. Andrew Jackson also had long struggles with the bankers called the Rothschild's. He had a couple of assassination attempts on his life because he too went up against these bankers as Lincoln did. And then we come to J.F. Kennedy. He also tried to put an end to these bankers who he knew were ripping people off. He started to expose these bankers to the American public. He tried to let everyone know of their intentions on ripping people off. Do I need to say what happened to Kennedy? It's worth doing research on your own, and not taking someone else's word on it.

[LincolnMan]

I remember on this Forum on one of the threads we listed at least a dozen different theories "out there" that claim to be the reason for the assassination. It makes for very interesting conversation- and some of them may have some truth- but the killing of Lincoln by JWB for reasons that he himself revealed still seems the most credible.

[Thomas Thorne]

Andrew Jackson suspected,but could not produce evidence, that his political enemies were involved with Richard Lawrence, both of whose pistols misfired when he tried to kill the president in 1835. Being Jackson, he beat his assailant with a cane.

Jackson partly based his suspicions of his enemies on the fact that Lawrence had briefly been employed as a house painter by Sen. George Poindexter, a Jacksonian critic, long after Lawrence first displayed signs of severe mental illness. Poindexter was defeated for reelection due to his inability to prove a negative. But to date no one has substantiated involvement,inspiration or participation by anyone other than Richard Lawrence in his attempt to kill Jackson.

Richard Lawrence lived long before the advent of psychotropic medications, so it is somewhat difficult to compare him with more recent assassins and would be assassins. He seemed to me much more demented than either Charles Guiteau, or John Hinckley,the only people who IMO had significant mental illness when they tried to kill a sitting
president. Lawrence spent the last 26 years of his life after he tried to kill Jackson in various hospitals and institutions.

Tom

[Wild Bill]

Lincoln against the banks? No way. The Republican platform of 1860 supported banks, especially strong ones, through the National Banking Act (why we have so many "First National Banks" in this country even today), always part of Henry Clay's American System of 1824. Being a Whig and a Clay idolator, and not joining the Republican party until it adopted such an economic policy in the 1850s, Lincoln was always for sound banks to finance American industrial expansion. What Lincoln and the Republicans were against was unregulated state and private banks that the Jacksonians saw as democratic (and the Republicans saw as unreliable for business) that was why the Jacksonians worked to gut and then destroy the Second United States Bank in 1832-36.

[RJNorton]

Lincoln against the banks? No way.

I agree with Bill. As an Illinois state legislator Lincoln once jumped from a window of the Second Presbyterian Church, the temporary location of the Illinois House of Representatives, in December 1840. The motive of the unusual action, for which Lincoln suffered considerable humiliation, was to break a quorum when Democrats called for a vote to cripple the Whig-favored state bank. Two other legislators, Joseph Gillepsie and Asahel Gridley, jumped with Lincoln. It didn't work; the escape attempt was for naught.

Springfield's Old Second Presbyterian Church

[Craig Hipkins]

I too believe that the bank theory lacks credence. So does the theory that the assassination was concocted by the Jesuits as Charles Chiniquy suggested. However, Lincoln may have supported American banks, but does anyone know his view of International banks such as the ones managed by the Rothschilds? I have read various accounts of European banks funding both sides of the 1861-1865 American conflict. They had a good reason for this. Smaller economies (States) which would engage in trade struggles among themselves would be a lot less powerful than a one large State (A powerful central Govt.) which might disrupt the balance of money and power in Europe.

Craig

[Mylye2222]

I've read those theories as well. Frankly, it's not impossible, as another poster had mentioned similar financial policies of Lincoln and Kennedy. It is not a conspiracy that the Federal Reserve isn't public at all and owned by private banks, and that in Europe, it's the same with the Central European Bank. All the money is printed with interests and all nations are now in debt. National debts enriches big banks, such as the Rothschilds, and it increases poverty among ordinary citizens. And in France, why do you think so much people despise Emmanuel Macron? Because he's a former Rothschild high rate employee, and now as president, what he's doing? Playing the finance agenda.
I also heard that Booth and his gang got an important summ from European banks important agents.

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I too believe that the bank theory lacks credence. So does the theory that the assassination was concocted by the Jesuits as Charles Chiniquy suggested. However, Lincoln may have supported American banks, but does anyone know his view of International banks such as the ones managed by the Rothschilds? I have read various accounts of European banks funding both sides of the 1861-1865 American conflict. They had a good reason for this. Smaller economies (States) which would engage in trade struggles among themselves would be a lot less powerful than a one large State (A powerful central Govt.) which might disrupt the balance of money and power in Europe.

Craig

Agreed. Lincoln was an economical protectionist. He certainly had nothing about American banks. He was with the First Industrial Revolution and industry needed money. But he sounds he was a lover of big centralized government and wanted the money to be regulated. History shows he was right as we looks at how globalization and deregulation hurt the world.