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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 01:24 AM
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On Nov. 21, 1864 President Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter
to Colonel William F. Elkins.

He wrote "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned, and 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 all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war."
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foo_bar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 01:30 AM
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1. "Lincoln never said that"
Edited on Sun Oct-31-04 01:32 AM by foo_bar
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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 01:40 AM
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2. thanks for the link
still sounds good though
I have tab those links so thanks again
Robert Todd Lincoln wrote that he had tracked the source of the quote to a Spiritualist Séance in Iowa and that the quote was supposedly said by Abraham Lincoln through a medium. "elief in its authenticity should therefore be held only by those who place confidence in the outgivings of so-called Mediums at the gatherings held under their auspices," he wrote.
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MisterP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 01:44 AM
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3. like Mrs. Lincoln?
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