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Title:	TELEGRAM -  TELEGRAM ANNOUNCING DEATH OF LINCOLN
Maker/Manufacturer:	DEPT. OF GULF
Date of Manufacture:	1865
Eminent Figure:
Catalog Number:	SPAR 5112
Measurements:	H: 9 1/2" W: 11 1/2" D: 9 /16"

Object Description:

TELEGRAM ANNOUNCING DEATH OF LINCOLN
Telegram framed and encased in glass. Slight tear in paper around edges. This was US Army property, Army #6469. This was officially transferred to the NPS by the Army on 18 September 1986.

Telegraph reads:
"DEPART ENT OF THE GULF/U.S. MILITARY TELEGRAPH OFFICE/April 17th 1865.
By telegraph from ??
To (crossed out) The president assassinated.
??
The Secretary of State assassinated, the Secretary & Son seriously wounded.
Major Seward wounded.
The president shot in theater. Seward killed on sick bed. Arrest of the Chief assassin. One Nation in Mourning rage and excitement all over the North. A Copperhead shot at Cairo.
Affecting Speech by genl Banks at Cairo. Gen Johnston retreating South. Sherman on the Move.

President Lincoln and Secretary Seward assassinated on night of the 13th. Lincoln died 2 minutes of 7 O'clock on 13th and Seward died soon after.
Official 12th. President Lincoln was assassinated last night at ford's theater he was shot - through the head and died this Morning. Secretary Seward was also assassinated his throat cut - by a ? who cut down fred Seward his Son, a nephew and two Nurses before reaching the Secretary too."

Reverse: "It appears by a letter found in Booth's trunk that the murder was planned before the 2nd of March but the accomplice backed out until richmond could be heard from. Booth is arrested but the other have escaped.
Hell arms us loose but someone will pay for it."

"Speech by Jeff Davis at Danville. He Say'd the War must be continued.
Drafting to be Stopped in the ? States."

Information attached: ORIGINAL TELEGRAM APR. 17, 1865. ANNOUNCING ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN - REC BY ME AT BAYOU BOREF, LA. 80 MILES WEST OF NEW ORLEANS.

Telegram donated to the Museum by Dr. Allen G. Rice, Springfield, Ma.

Notes: "History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance." - James Madison

"...If you truly believe, as the history books claim, that the war was all about slavery, think again. Although Lincoln was on record as being opposed to slavery, it was not his primary concern.
On August 22, 1862, in a letter to Horace Greeley, Lincoln penned 'My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forebear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.'
Now, imagine if a government simply created its own money out of nothing, and it was backed by nothing more than the full faith and credit of the government and the people of the nation in question? Well, it has been done. Colonial Scrip was interest-free (no profit for international bankers equals great prosperity for the average person). Again, during the Civil War, President Lincoln issued 'greenbacks' based upon this precise premise and they proved enormously popular, serving also, to finance the Civil War. Although Lincoln did have to turn to the international bankers for some assistance in the end, it was apparent that he intended after winning reelection, upon conclusion of the Civil War, that he would eliminate this debt and not do business with the international money changers. It is precisely for his efforts in this area that many say Lincoln was assassinated. It is said that John Wilkes Booth was nothing less than a paid mercenary/murderer for the international bankers who could not bear to see this huge nation expand and prosper without their absolute control Otto Von Bismarck, the famous German Chancellor (1815-1898) remarked, 'The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots.... I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt modern civilization. They will not hesitate to plunge the whole of Christendom into war and chaos in order that they earth shall become their inheritance.'" - Christopher Mark

"I have two great enemies: The Southern army in front of me, and the financial institutions in my rear. Of the two, the one in my rear is my greatest foe." - Lincoln

References:
Winkler, H. Douglas. LINCOLN AND BOOTH: MORE LIGHT ON THE CONSPIRACY. Cumberland House. Nashville, Tn. 2003.