"Gentlemen! I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out!"
(This quote is taken from the original minutes of the Philadelphia committee of the citizens sent to meet with President Jackson (February 1834), and is quoted in the book, Andrew Jackson and the Bank of the United States (1928) by Stan V. Henkels)
Shortly after President Jackson (the only American President to actually pay off the national debt) ended the life of the predatory Second Bank of the United States, there was an attempted assassination, which failed when both pistols used by the would-be assassin, Richard Lawrence, failed to fire. Lawrence later said that with Jackson dead, "Money would be more aplenty."
Challenging the corporate control of media, education and history
Our public school system is subservient to the bankers' wishes to keep certain important aspects of US history from us, just as the corporate media is subservient to Monsanto's wishes to keep the dangers of GMOs from us. Thus it should come as no surprise that many of the real reasons for the Civil War are not well known to the average American.
When the Confederacy seceded from the United States, the bankers once again saw the opportunity for a rich harvest from public indebtedness, and for that reason offered to fund Lincoln's efforts to bring the south back into the union, on the following terms: If there would be a 30% rate of return, then loans for the war would be made available. Lincoln's reply: "I will not free the black man by enslaving the white man to the bankers." So, using his authority as president, Lincoln issued a new government-based currency called the greenback. This was, of course, a direct threat to the growing wealth and power of the central bankers, who quickly responded to Lincoln's daring move. The London Times explained thusly, on behalf of the central bankers:
"If this mischievous (gov't issued greenback) financial policy, which has its origin in North America, shall (be employed), then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will (thereby) handily pay off debts and then be without debt. It will also (thereby) have all the money it needs to carry on its commerce. And it will (by this means) become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world. The brains, and wealth of all countries will (consequently) flow to North America. (Therefore), that country must be destroyed, or it will destroy every monarchy and aristocracy on the globe!"
Then, in 1872, New York bankers sent the following letter to every bank in the United States, urging them to fund newspapers that opposed government-issued money (such as Lincoln's greenbacks):
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