What Lincoln Foresaw: Corporations Being "Enthroned" After the Civil War (Photo)

[Galraedia]

Written in reference to the passage of the National Banking Act of 1863 less than five months before he was assassinated in a letter to one Col. William F. Elkins.

[5X]

1. Not true, he didn't say it....

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/lincoln.asp

[dipsydoodle]

2. Beat me to it

Coincidentally I read that just yesterday.

[Galraedia]

3. It's authenticity is disputed.

What Lincoln Foresaw: Corporations Being "Enthroned" After the Civil War
and Re-Writing the Laws Defining Their Existence: http://www.ratical.org/corporations/Lincoln.html

Also,

OTOH, I have seen many attempts to disprove the quote's authenticity, yet I was not persuaded by any of them.

E.g, supposedly Lincoln's son wrote this letter exposing the quote as fraudulent ... then never sent that letter:

I'm persuaded only that Robert Todd Lincoln (an attorney for the "Robber Barons&quot so wanted to falsify the quote, that he was willing to engage in social engineering by fabricating the quote's origin in a Spiritualist Seance -- which at the time was experiencing a social backlash by the more skeptical and rational segments of society.

A quick search of Books.google.com (in August 2010) found several instances of Lincoln's "corporations have been enthroned" quote dating back (at least) to 1890. An 1894 U.S. Senate speech cites it as genuine. The "1888" Peterson's Magazine article actually seems to be 1904.

Source: http://infowarethics.org/lincoln.html

[AnotherMcIntosh]

4. Another good story ruined by the facts.

[Journeyman]

5. Mr. Lincoln also said: "Quotes on the internet are not always accurate." . . .

[sulphurdunn]

6. Whether or not the quote

is attributable to Lincoln it is prophetic.

[marble falls]

7. Well he shoulda said, Eisenhower said something kinda like it. Damn. I've already ......

posted it elsewhere. Those pro Romney mooks'll have a field day.