Benjamin was falsely defamed as having weakened the Confederacy by transferring its funds to personal bank accounts in Europe.
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After Benjamin resigned as Confederate Secretary of War, Davis appointed him Secretary of State. Eli Evans, Benjamin’s most perceptive biographer, observed that "Benjamin served Davis as his Sephardic ancestors had served the kings of Europe for hundreds of years, as a kind of court Jew to the Confederacy.
The House of Rothschild's English bankers began living full time in New Orleans in the early 1800’s. In In 1857, Judah Benjamin was an agent of the House of Rothschild living in New Orleans. His job was to fund the Confederacy and help foster a devastating Civil War. Judah Benjamin started in the Confederate government as Attorney General and later became Secretary of State. Judah Benjamin also became head of the Confederate intelligence and was a key player in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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The three secret founders of the Mystick Krewe of Comus were Albert Pike, Judah Benjamin (link to judahbenjamin notes) and John Slidell.
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John Wilkes Booth was a member of the Knights of the Golden Circle founded by Albert Pike.
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It was also during this time in New Orleans that John Wilkes Booth met with Admiral G.W. Baird (a Freemason), who later identifies the body of Captain James William Boyd as the body of John Wilkes Booth, taken onboard the ship Montauk. This was not the real body of John Wilkes Booth. The man killed in Garrett’s barn after the Lincoln assassination was a Confederate secret service agent and not John Wilkes Booth. The man killed in Garrett’s barn was Captain James William Boyd, a former Confederate agent working originally under Judah P. Benjamin. At the time that Captain James William Boyd was killed in Garrett’s barn he- Captain James William Boyd- was employed by the War Department. Captain James William Boyd bore a striking resemblance to John Wilkes Booth.
they do look simular
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Who Really Killed
Abraham Lincoln?
By Brad Steiger
2-11-8
When I was a boy in the 1940s, Abraham Lincoln was regarded with even greater reverence than he is today. His martyrdom at the hands of a demented assassin seemed to seal his sainthood for all time.
My grandmother had a marvelous library, which included hundreds of volumes, particularly on history. She even had the official Matthew Brady volume of Civil War photographs. Because I had access to such a treasure trove of information and because I became a history buff at a very early age, I read a much more complete version of the man who had assassinated Lincoln than was readily available in our schoolbooks.
I discovered that the assassin, John Wilkes Booth, had come from a family of famous actors. His father, Junius Brutus Booth, was a noted Shakespearean actor, as was John's brother, Edwin, who became known as the "Prince of Players." John had also performed on the stage throughout the country, but his wild and erratic behavior and his outspoken political prejudices prevented him from achieving a solid career in the theater. He was an outspoken advocate of the Confederate cause during the Civil War, and he launched into hateful tirades against President Lincoln at the slightest opportunity.
In the late summer of 1864 Booth developed plans to kidnap Lincoln to Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy, and hold the President in return for southern prisoners of war. By January 1865, he had gathered a small band of conspirators, including Samuel Arnold, Michael O'Laughlen, John Surratt, Lewis Powell (a.k.a. Paine or Payne), George Atzerodt, and David Herold, who began using Mary Surratt's boardinghouse as a meeting place.
On April 9, 1865, when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, there was no longer any point in Booth's prisoner exchange plan. The South had capitulated.
On April 11, Booth was in the crowd that heard Lincoln speaking outside the White House and became infuriated when he heard the president suggest that certain freed slaves should be given the right to vote. In Booth's opinion, it was bad enough that Lincoln planned to free the slaves; it was against God's will that blacks should be able to read and to vote. He summoned his co-conspirators and angrily told them that he now planned to assassinate Lincoln.
When they learned that Lincoln and General Grant would be attending Ford's Theater on April 14, Good Friday, they unanimously decided that would be the night to kill both the President and his leading military officer.
Although the conspirators learned later that day that General Grant had changed his plans and would not be attending the play, Booth insisted that they would follow through with the plan to assassinate Lincoln at the theater. Atzerodt was assigned to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson in his quarters at the Kirkwood House; Powell and Herold would murder Secretary of State William Seward. All the murders were to take place at 10:15 that night.
After he had fortified himself with a drink at nearby saloon, Booth entered the front of Ford's Theater around 10:07 and began to make his way toward the box where the Lincolns were sitting with Clara Harris and Henry Rathbone. Audience laughter at the comedy Our American Cousin helped to conceal the sound of Booth's opening the door to the box. Lincoln's bodyguard, John Parker of the Metropolitan Police Force, had momentarily left his post, so Booth faced no resistance as he withdrew his single-shot derringer and fired point-blank at the back of Lincoln's head. When Rathbone rose to struggle with him, Booth stabbed him in the arm with a hunting knife.
Booth jumped the approximately eleven feet to the stage and snapped the fibula in his left leg just above the ankle. Brandishing his knife and shouting, "Sic semper tyrannis" (Thus always to tyrants), Booth limped across the stage in front of over a thousand shocked audience members and made his way to the horse that awaited him out the back door.
President Lincoln never regained consciousness and died at 7:22 on the morning of April 15. Powell managed to stab Secretary of State Seward, but did not kill him. Atzerodt did not follow through on his assignment to assassinate Vice President Johnson. Booth had his broken leg set and splinted by Dr. Samuel Mudd, then, in the company of Herold, headed for refuge in the South.
Early in the morning of April 26, federal authorities caught up with the two fugitives at Garrett's farm near Port Royal, Virginia. Herold surrendered, but Booth took cover in a barn and refused to come out. The barn was torched, and Sergeant Boston Corbett shot the assassin as the flames surrounded him.
Mrs. Surratt, Powell, Atzerodt, and Herold were all hanged on July 7, 1865. Dr. Mudd, O'Laughlen, and Arnold were given life terms. Ned Spangler, a stagehand at Ford's was sentenced to six years for helping Booth escape. John Surratt escaped to Canada and was finally apprehended in Egypt. Brought back to face trial in 1867, a deadlocked jury set him free. O'Laughlen died in prison that same year. In 1869, President Andrew Johnson pardoned Dr. Mudd, Arnold, and Spangler.
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The account of the assassination of Lincoln summarized above is the way most of us have heard the story. We know who the assassin was; we know his co-conspirators; we know everything there is to know about who killed President Lincoln.
When I was in high school, I talked my father into subscribing to True, a popular men's magazine, that always contained fascinating articles on everything from UFOs, true crime, and little known aspects of historical events. When I saw the blurb on the cover of the February 1953 issue for "America's Greatest Unsolved Murder," I was astonished to see that Joseph Millard's article was about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. I was puzzled. There was nothing "unsolved" about Lincoln's assassination.
Or was there? By the time that I had finished the article, I was hooked for life on conspiracies in general and fascinated enough by Millard's article to continue my own quest into the "unsolved murder" of Abraham Lincoln.
Early on, I uncovered some fascinating footnotes to the enigma of the Lincoln Assassination:
Although the remains taken from the ashes of the barn at Garrett's farm were identified as those of John Wilkes Booth, a number of historians insist that the body was never positively identified as that of the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln,
Mary Todd Lincoln suffered extreme mental deterioration after that terrible Good Friday night in Ford's Theatre. Although she was confined in asylum for some time and eventually released, she never fully recovered from the shock.
Major Rathbone, wounded by Booth's knife as he attempted to halt the assassin, married Clara Harris, the other occupant of the fatal theatre box. A few years later, he went insane, attempted to kill Clara and their children, and spent the rest of his life restrained as a violent maniac.
Boston Corbett, who received praise as the man who shoot John Wilkes Booth, went mad and was confined to an asylum.
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Later, my wife Sherry and I began a much deeper exploration into the many theories about who really assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Among the most popular conspiracies are the following:
Vice-President Andrew Johnson arranged for the assassination
Several members of Congress and Mary Todd Lincoln herself were certain that Vice-President Johnson knew of the conspiracy and did nothing to stop it. It is known that seven hours before he assassinated the President, John Wilkes Booth stopped by the Kirkwood House to see Johnson. When he was informed that neither Johnson nor his private secretary were presently in the hotel, Booth left a note that read, "Don't wish to disturb you. Are you at home?"
Some might conclude that Booth did not trust George Atzerodt to kill Johnson, so he decided to do it himself. But what about the conspirators' agreed upon plan to carry out the murders of Johnson, Seward, and Lincoln at approximately 10:15 that evening? If Booth had killed the Vice-President at 3:00 that afternoon, the security around the President would have been tripled--and Lincoln would most assuredly not attended the play that night.
In Right or Wrong, God Judge Me: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth, edited by John Rhodehamel and Louise Taper it is revealed that Booth met Johnson in Nashville in February, 1864, when the actor was appearing at the recently opened Wood's Theatre. Even more damning, in Civil War Echoes (1907) Hamilton Howard claims that in 1862, while Johnson was the military governor of Tennessee, he and Booth had kept two sisters as their shared mistresses and were frequently seen in one another's company.
Johnson, born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1808, had been elected governor of Tennessee in 1853, the U.S. Senate in 1856, was the only Southern senator who had refused to join the Confederacy. However, Johnson made it clear that he was supporting the Union and not the abolition of slavery. No one who had heard one of Johnson's rants questioned his belief that slaves should be kept in subordination. When Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, Johnson managed to wring a promise from the President that while the proclamation would apply to all the slaves held by those states in rebellion, Tennessee would be exempt.
Lincoln's first choice for his running mate in the 1864 election had been radical Republican Hannibal Hamlin, then he asked war hero General Benjamin Butler to join him on the slate. However, the consensus in the Republican Party held that Johnson would demonstrate that the Southern states were still part of the Union.
Lincoln had had little to do with his Vice-President after Johnson disgraced himself on Inauguration Day by being drunk when he made his speech to Congress. Slurring his words and making numerous inappropriate comments, Johnson had been helped to his seat by Hannibal Hamlin. With the memory of this embarrassment clearly in mind, Mary Todd Lincoln felt certain that the "miserable inebriate Johnson" had something to do with her husband's death.
Secretary of War Edwin Stanton also came under suspicion as a member of the conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln, and some believe that he immediately began a movement to impeach Andrew Johnson, now the President, because of his own suspected role in the assassination. Johnson informed Stanton that his resignation s Secretary of War was accepted and had him removed from office by force of arms. Not long after he left office, Stanton was found dead, according to rumors, by his own hand.
Johnson was cleared of any involvement in Lincoln's death by a special Congressional Assassination Committee had been formed specifically to investigate him. Regardless of the Committees' declaration of Johnson's innocence, many Americans regarded him with suspicion for decades to come.
Lincoln was assassinated as the result of a Confederate Plot
In the winter of 1864, Union Army Brigadier General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick conceived a plan to raid Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy, and free more than 1,500 Union officers and 10,000 enlisted men. Abraham Lincoln personally endorsed the raid because the pressure he received daily from people protesting the Confederate treatment of the Union soldiers in the swampy prison camp.
On February 28, 1864, Kilpatrick led 3,600 Cavalry troopers across the Rapidan River, riding south Richmond. The following day, 21- year-old Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, who had lost his right leg at Gettysburg, took 460 men to the west to cross the James River, heading south to Richmond's lightly defended southern portals. Kilpatrick would engage the main force of Confederates while Dahlgren freed the prisoners.
Unfortunately for the Union prisoners, the James River was too high to cross at the appointed place, so Dahlgren continued toward Richmond on the wrong side of the river and was confronted by Southern militiamen. When Kilpatrick, a leader so devoid of skill that his men had nicknamed him "Kill-Cavalry," met resistance at Richmond's outer defenses, he ordered a hasty retreat. Left to flounder on their own without the main body of cavalry, Dahlgren's men headed back toward Union lines in a freezing rain. On March 2, Colonel Ulric Dahlgren was killed in a Confederate ambush.
The story of the ill-fated campaign wouldn't rate more than a footnote in the annals of the Civil War if what has come to be known as the Dahlgren Papers had not been retrieved from the young colonel's inside coat pocket. Captain Edward Halbach skimmed over the orders outlining the details of the failed raid--then he became appalled and could hardly believe his senses when he read that the actual objective of the raid was to burn Richmond to the ground and to kill President Jeff Davis and his entire cabinet.
Halbach immediately brought the incendiary papers to General Robert E. Lee, who had them photocopied and sent to Major General George Meade, the Union commander. Although the Civil War was bloody and ghastly in its scope, there had always been some gallantry and honor employed. To plan a raid to murder the President of the Confederacy and every member of his cabinet was beyond outrageous.
Kilpatrick told Meade that he had read Dahlgren's address to his men and the photocopy was accurate up to the point where the orders were issued to burn Richmond and assassinate Davis and his cabinet. Although the Union commanders protested that the Confederacy had doctored the documents and Dahlgren's father, Rear Admiral John Dahlgren, a personal friend of Lincoln's, pronounced them "a bare-faced atrocious forgery," it didn't take long for Confederate intelligence operatives to learn that President Lincoln himself had endorsed the raid and had approved Colonel Dahlgren as one of its leaders.
In this conspiracy theory of Lincoln's assassination, Booth becomes a rebel agent working under orders of Judah Benjamin, the Confederate Secretary of State, in plots first to bomb the White House [which failed when Thomas F. Harney, explosive expert, was captured on April 10th], then to assassinate Lincoln, which succeeded on April 14, 1865.
The Confederate Plot hypothesis has been given more credence in recent years. A grand Confederate conspiracy is detailed in William A. Tidwell, James O. Hall, and David Winfred Gaddy in their book Come Retribution: The Confederate Secret Service and the Assassination of Lincoln (1988). Tidwell expands the evidence in his 1995 work, April '65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War.
The Rothschilds and International Bankers arranged Lincoln's death
In this conspiracy scenario, John Wilkes Booth was the "hit man," the "hired gun" for the powerful British bankers, the Rothschilds. According to this assassination theory, the Rothschilds had offered loans to the Lincoln administration at very high interest, assuming that the Union had no choice other than to accept their outrageous terms. The frugal and resourceful frontiersman spirit in Lincoln caused him to refuse the Rothschilds' offer and to acquire the necessary funds elsewhere. Although his refusal only stung their sense of pride and greed, the true reason for their planning his assassination was their knowledge that after the war Lincoln's policies indicated a mild Reconstruction of the South that would encourage a resumption of agriculture rather than industry. Additional post-war policies destroyed the Rothschilds' commodity speculations. With Lincoln out of the way, the Rothschilds planned to exploit the weaknesses of the United States and take over its economy.
Lincoln was assassinated by the Jesuits
In 1856 in Urbana, Illinois, Lincoln defended Charles Chiniquy, a rebellious priest, against charges of slander brought by the friends of Bishop O'Regan of Chicago, with whom Chiniquy had a strong disagreement. Lincoln brought about a compromise settlement that the priest interpreted as a major victory over the Roman Catholic Church.
As time passed, Chiniquy feared that the Jesuits, the soldiers of Jesus, resented Lincoln for this triumph over the church and might one day attempt to even the score. In 1886, Chiniquy wrote Fifty Years in the Church of Rome in which he revealed that Jefferson Davis had offered a million dollars to anyone who would kill Lincoln.
According to Chiniquy, he visited Lincoln in the White House on numerous occasions and tried to warn of the Catholic Church's antagonism toward him. Later, Chiniquy learned that the Jesuits trained John Wilkes Booth to become their tool of assassination. In 1906, Chiniquy swore that President Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated by the Jesuits of Rome.
In 1897, Thomas M. Harris, a member of the 1865 military commission, wrote Rome's Responsibility for the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
The accusations against the Catholic Church for the murder of our most beloved President have not dissipated with time. In 1963, Emmett McLoughlin's An Inquiry into the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln claims that Pope Pious IX may have been the instigator of the plot to kill Lincoln. McLoughlin writes, "On one side were dictatorship, slavery, secession, monarchy, European imperialism, Jesuit chicanery, and a Church-dominated assault on the Monroe Doctrine, all of which found spiritual leadership in the one person: Pope Pius IX. On the other side were freedom, emancipation, Freemasonry, democracy, Latin American struggle against foreign domination, all embodied in the one person: Abraham Lincoln."
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In 1953, in his article in True magazine, Millard predicted that scholars and historians would still be debating the truth behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln one hundred years in the future. Since fifty-five years have already passed, it would seem that his prediction will be accurate. It would appear that the mystery of the Lincoln assassination, like that of the murder of John F. Kennedy, will never be satisfactorily resolved.
[Some of the material for this article has been adapted from Conspiracies and Secret Societies: The Complete Dossier by Brad and Sherry Steiger, Visible Ink Press, 2006.]
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Judah Benjamin, The Jewish Confederate
One of the most misunderstood figures in American Jewish history is Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884), whom some historians have called "the brains of the Confederacy," even as others tried to blame him for the South’s defeat. Born in the West Indies in 1811 to observant Jewish parents, Benjamin was raised in Charleston, South Carolina. A brilliant child, at age 14 he attended Yale Law School and, on graduation, practiced law in New Orleans. A founder of the Illinois Central Railroad, a state legislator, a planter who owned 140 slaves until he sold his plantation in 1850, Judah Benjamin was elected to the United States Senate from Louisiana in 1852. When the slave states seceded in 1861, Confederate President Jefferson Davis appointed him Attorney General, making Benjamin the first Jew to hold a Cabinet-level office in an American government and the only Confederate Cabinet member who did not own slaves. Benjamin later served as the Confederacy’s Secretary of War and then as Secretary of State.
For an individual of such prominence, Benjamin’s kept his personal life and views somewhat hidden. In her autobiography, Jefferson Davis’s wife, Varina, informs us that Benjamin spent twelve hours each day at her husband’s side, tirelessly shaping every important Confederate strategy and tactic. Yet, Benjamin never spoke publicly or wrote about his role and burned his personal papers before his death, allowing both his contemporaries and later historians to interpret Benjamin as they wished, usually unsympathetically.
During the Civil War, many Southerners blamed Benjamin for their nation’s misfortunes. The Confederacy lacked the men and materiel to match the Union armies and, when President Davis decided in 1862 to let Roanoke Island fall into Union hands without mounting a defense rather than revealing the true weakness of Southern forces, Benjamin, as Davis’s loyal Secretary of War, took the blame and resigned. Anti-Semitism was an unpleasant fact – North and South – during the Civil War years and Benjamin was falsely defamed as having weakened the Confederacy by transferring its funds to personal bank accounts in Europe.
After Benjamin resigned as Confederate Secretary of War, Davis appointed him Secretary of State. Eli Evans, Benjamin’s most perceptive biographer, observed that "Benjamin served Davis as his Sephardic ancestors had served the kings of Europe for hundreds of years, as a kind of court Jew to the Confederacy. An insecure President [Davis] was able to trust him completely because, among other things, no Jew could ever challenge him for leadership of the Confederacy." Near the end of the war, Benjamin privately persuaded Robert E. Lee and other Confederate military leaders that the South’s best chance was to emancipate any slave who volunteered to fight for the Confederacy. When Benjamin repeated this proposal to an audience of 10,000 persons in Richmond in 1864, his remarks lit a firestorm. Georgian Howell Cobb observed, "If slaves will make good soldiers, our whole theory of slavery is wrong." Benjamin’s idea, however valuable, was rejected as politically impossible. As Evans observes, "The South chose [instead] to go down in defeat with the institution of slavery intact."
When John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln in 1865, Davis and Benjamin were suspected of having plotted the event and, as the martyred Lincoln was compared to Christ in the Northern press, Benjamin was pilloried as Judas Iscariot. When the South was defeated, fearing that he could never receive a fair trial if charged with Lincoln’s murder, Benjamin fled to England, where he lived out his life as a barrister, publishing a classic legal text on the sale of personal property. Evans speculates that, had Benjamin been captured by Union troops, the United States might have had its own Dreyfus Trial.
A solitary man, estranged from his wife, Benjamin died alone in England. His daughter arranged to have him buried in the Catholic Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Until 1938, when the Paris chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy provided an inscription with his American name, his simple tombstone was engraved with the name "Philippe Benjamin."
While Judah Benjamin preferred such obscurity, his prominence as a Jew assured that he would come under harsh scrutiny during and after his life. For example, on the floor of the Senate Ben Wade of Ohio charged Benjamin, a defender of slavery, with being an "Israelite in Egyptian clothing." With characteristic eloquence, Benjamin replied, "It is true that I am a Jew, and when my ancestors were receiving their Ten Commandments from the immediate Deity, amidst the thundering and lightnings of Mt. Sinai, the ancestors of my opponent were herding swine in the forests of Great Britain."
Perhaps the best-known posthumous caricature of Benjamin appears in the epic poem John Brown’s Body, by Stephen Vincent Benet. Describing him as a "dark prince," Benet depicts Judah Benjamin as "other" in Confederate inner circles:
Judah P. Benjamin, the dapper Jew,
Seal-sleek, black-eyed, lawyer and epicure,
Able, well-hated, face alive with life,
Looked round the council-chamber with the slight
Perpetual smile he held before himself
continually like a silk-ribbed fan.
. . . [His] quick, shrewd fluid mind
Weighed Gentiles in an old balance . . .
The eyes stared, searching.
"I am a Jew. What am I doing here?"
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Dozens of Carnival Parades fill the schedule between January 6 (Twelfth Night, also known as the Feast of the Epiphany, which marks the end of the Christmas Season)
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Bacchus Parade on Sunday
could Mardi gras be a masonic ritual?
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Officially, Carnival comes to an end promptly at midnight on "Fat Tuesday," when the police begin to clean the streets of the French Quarter, and officially closes with the meeting of the Courts of Rex and Comus at the Ball of the Mystick Krewe of Comus.
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Comus: Founded in 1857, the Krewe of Comus (from the Greek komos, meaning "revelers"), has the distinction of having originally been the oldest parading Krewe and was initially named "The Mystick Krewe of Comus." Founded by six men (all Protestant white Americans) who had moved to New Orleans from Mobile, Alabama, they formed a secret society along with thirteen New Orleanians and mounted a tableau ball for 3,000 people at the Gaiety Theatre. Comus' first parade included two floats lighted by "flambeaux." In keeping with the early Masonic traditions of secrecy, the member of Comus never revealed the name of their King. The most discriminatory of the old-liners, it was not until relatively recent times that they would admit Catholics to their ranks. This Krewe, however, no longer participates in the Parades. In 1992, when New Orleans Councilwoman Dorothy Mae Taylor drafted an anti-discrimination ordinance that prohibited racial discrimination among the Krewes, Comus refused to sign the ordinance and withdrew from the Parade schedule. Some members of Comus have replaced their Carnival night Parade with a procession from Antoine's Restaurant to their ball at the Municipal Auditorium. The revelers ring cowbells in honor of the group which inspired them, the Cowbellion de Rankin Society of Mobile, Alabama. The Krewe's motto is: "Sic Volo, Sic Jubeo" ("As I Will It, There Will Be Joy"). The decision to withdraw from the Parade schedule was also adopted by Momus and Proteus (the second oldest Krewe which recanted several years later and signed the ordinance).
The Twelfth Night strikes me as odd - I guess I will need to take a look at The Spear Shaker
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Young America
SCHILLER INSTITUTE
Schiller Institute/ICLC Conference
"The Palmerston Zoo"
America's 'Young America' movement:
slaveholders and the B'nai B'rith
by Anton Chaitkin
Ten years from now, in 1860, Lord Palmerston's quest for world empire will enter its most critical phase: the American Civil War, provoked by Young America and other pro-British networks. A French army will be in Mexico, propping up Maximilian. Britain will ready the fleet and send troops to Canada. The only support for Lincoln's beleaguered Union will come from the Russian Empire of Czar Alexander II, with two Russian fleets being sent to American ports in 1863 with orders from the czar to join Lincoln in fighting Britain and France should general war break out. Mazzini, Urquhart, and their assets will pull out all the stops to isolate Russia and blow up eastern Europe.
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The founder of Zionism in its modern, British-sponsored form is not Theodor Herzl, but a certain Moses Hess. Hess converted Friedrich Engels to communism, and wrote parts of Marx's German Ideology. In 1861, Hess will write Rome and Jerusalem, which attacks Moses Mendelssohn for the idea that Judaism is a religion and a culture. For Hess, Judaism is a race in Mazzini's blood-and-soil sense, and therefore must have a homeland. Yet another of Palmerston's theme parks will open its doors.
Mazzini seem familiar, I think it was he who wrote the French dialog with the devil, where the PROTOCOLS were forged.
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In the B'nai B'rith's official, authorized history, it says: "B'nai B'rith's relationship to the Civil War presents something of a mystery." They say that the arrest of the B'nai B'rith's leader in Washington as a Confederate spymaster was unfair. They say that no one can account for why the group was not pro-Union, whereas most Jews were pro-Union, and B'nai B'rith's lodges were almost all located in the North. Indeed, Jewish soldiers in the Union Army were intensely proud, mostly German-speaking immigrant, anti-slavery Republicans.
To solve the mystery, we go back 20 years before the start of the American Civil War.
British Foreign Minister Palmerston launched Zionism in 1840. He wrote that the Jews desired to return to Palestine (Abba Eban points out that the Jews knew nothing about this); and a month later, the British landed troops in Palestine for the first time.
B'nai B'rith was started officially in 1843 by some obscure Freemasons in New York, as a secret society "like Freemasonry" for Jews. B'nai B'rith was to shape and lead a particular political faction, with a particular agenda, within the Jewish community.
The agenda for this project came out in a famous speech given two years later at South Carolina College. The speaker was Edwin DeLeon, from a Jewish family in South Carolina that was already notorious for its involvement in the slave trade and in Scottish Rite Freemasonry. DeLeon was later a leader of the Confederate Secret Service.
DeLeon praised his teacher at the school, Thomas Cooper, an English atheist and Lord Shelburne's adventurer, who had first proposed that the South secede from the Union. DeLeon hailed Cooper as a tender-hearted religious heretic and "an earnest ... disciple of the school of Bentham and Malthus."
DeLeon said, "There is a 'Young Germany,' a 'Young France,' and a 'Young England'—and why not a 'Young America'?" He told the students: Any great civil convulsion comes from a source that is unexpected and obscure. In the French Revolution, the priests and nobles were only the flax with which the flame was kindled. But those who first applied the spark were the filthy, obscure savants of the Englightenment. DeLeon reminded the students that the actors in that drama were only its creatures, not its creators.
He then proposed revolutionary military action as the idea for his Young America, to spread what he called "freedom"—by force.
The "Young America" idea first bore its bitter fruit when U.S. President James Polk ordered American troops to invade Mexico. Young Congressman Abraham Lincoln exposed the President as a fraud; he denounced the Mexican war as a slaveowners' conspiracy that would wreck our country. Lincoln was driven out of politics until 12 years later.
This British project matured in the mid-1850s, and its active focus shifted to the West. There were two important partners out there: Isaac M. Wise, a B'nai B'rith Midwest leader based in Cincinnati; and Killian H. Van Rensselaer, a British military operative and Scottish Rite Mason northern leader, also based in Cincinnati. Between 1854 and 1860, they spread a pro-slavery, secessionist-terrorist group along the route extending down the Mississippi valley to Louisiana and Texas: the Knights of the Golden Circle. Wise's B'nai B'rith organization spread southward along the identical route. Their plan was to spread slavery into Latin America and the U.S. West, and break up the U.S.A. into several small countries.
In Louisiana, U.S. Sen. Judah Benjamin and Scottish Rite Southern Mason leader Albert Pike worked together on this terrorist secession project. There is a bust of Albert Pike in New Orleans, celebrating his work in that pre-war southern base for the Scottish Rite, the Knights, and B'nai B'rith. Judah Benjamin's relative (his uncle's brother Manny) had earlier written the masonic order creating the Northern Scottish Rite organization, in which Wise and Van Rensselaer were now leaders
these are just snips
Sounds like Young Turks.
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