Abraham Lincoln blamed the cause of the American Civil War on Rome!
The following quotes are from the book, “
Fifty Years in the Church of Rome”
by Charles Chiniquy, who was a priest in the Roman Catholic Church for
25 years and later left the Roman church and became a Presbyterian
pastor. He was a close friend of the 16th President of the United
States, Abraham Lincoln and had several personal interviews with him.
The following are quotes from Abraham Lincoln during one of his talks
with Charles Chiniquy. Read
http://www.biblebelievers.com/chiniquy/cc50_ch61.html for the entire text. The
emphasis in bold and
comments in italics are mine.
“It is with the Southern leaders of this civil war as with the big and
small wheels of our railroad cars. Those who ignore the laws of
mechanics are apt to think that the large, strong, and noisy wheels they
see are the motive power, but they are mistaken. The real motive power is not seen;
it is noiseless and well concealed in the dark, behind its iron walls.
The motive power are the few well-concealed pails of water heated into
steam, which is itself directed by the noiseless, small but unerring
engineer’s finger.
“The common people see and hear the big, noisy wheels of the Southern
Confederacy’s cars; they call they Jeff Davis, Lee, Toombs, Beauregard,
Semmes, ect., and they honestly think that they are the motive power,
the first cause of our troubles. But this is a mistake. The true motive power is secreted behind the thick walls of the Vatican, the colleges and schools of the Jesuits, the convents of the nuns, and the confessional boxes of Rome.
“There is a fact which is too much ignored by the American people,
and with which I am acquainted only since I became President; it is that
the best, the leading families of the South have received their
education in great part, if not in whole, from the Jesuits and the nuns.
Hence those degrading principles of slavery, pride, cruelty, which are
as a second nature among so many of those people. Hence that strange
want of fair play, humanity; that implacable hatred against the ideas of
equality and liberty as we find them in the Gospel of Christ. You do
not ignore that the first settlers of Louisiana, Florida, New Mexico,
Texas, South California and Missouri were Roman Catholics, and that
their first teachers were Jesuits. It is true that those states have
been conquered or bought by us since. But Rome had put the
deadly virus of her antisocial and anti-Christian maxims into the veins
of the people before they became American citizens.
Unfortunately, the Jesuits and the nuns have in great part remained the
teachers of those people since. They have continued in a silent, but
most efficacious way, to spread their hatred against our institutions,
our laws, our schools, our rights and our liberties in such a way that
this terrible conflict became unavoidable between the North and the
South. As I told you before, it is to Popery that we owe this terrible
civil war.
“I would have laughed at the man who would have told me that before I became the President. But Professor Morse (Samuel Morse, the man who invented the telegraph and who also warned extensively about Jesuit infiltration and its undermining American culture) has opened my eyes on that subject. And now I see that mystery (also known as MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT of Revelation 17:5);
I understand that engineering of hell which, though not seen or even
suspected by the country, is putting in motion the large, heavy, and
noisy wheels of the state cars of the Southern Confederacy. Our people
is not yet ready to learn and believe those things, and perhaps it is
not the proper time to initiate them to those dark mysteries of hell; it
would throw oil on a fire which is already sufficiently destructive.
“You are almost the only one with whom I speak freely on that subject. But sooner or later the nation will know the real origin of those rivers of blood and tears,
which are spreading desolation and death everywhere. And then those who
have caused those desolations and disasters will be called to give an
account of them.
“I do not pretend to be a prophet. But though not a prophet, I see a very dark cloud on our horizon. And that dark cloud is coming from Rome.
It is filled with tears of blood.
It will rise and increase till its
flanks will be torn by a flash of lightning, followed by a fearful peal
of thunder. Then a cyclone, such as the world has never seen, will pass
over this country, spreading ruin and desolation from north to south.
After it is over, there will be long days of peace and prosperity: for
Popery, with its Jesuits and merciless Inquisition, will have been for
ever swept away from our country. Neither I nor you, but our children,
will see those things.”
