Abe Lincoln said this...

"This (civil) war would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits. We owe it to popery that we now see our land

reddened with the blood of her noblest sons. Though there were great differences of opinion between the South and the North on the question

of slavery, neither Jeff Davis nor anyone of the leading men of the Confederacy would have dared to attack the North, had they not relied on

the promises of the Jesuits, that, under the mask of Democracy, the money and the arms of the Roman Catholic, even the arms of France were at their disposal, if they would attack us.

I pity the priests, the bishops and monks of Rome in the United States, when the people realize that they are, in great part, responsible for the tears and the blood shed in this war."