A Timely Reminder in the Midst of "War"
Lincoln was chillingly accurate:
"... 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 than ever before, even in
the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless."
- President Abraham Lincoln, in the last year of the Civil war,
on November 21, 1864, in a letter to his friend Colonel William F.
Elkins.