PART TWO: A Former Catholic Priest, Abraham Lincoln, and the ”Monster Church of Rome”

Abraham Lincoln had a reputation as being the most honest lawyer in Illinois, and he was just the one who Charles Chiniquy needed to defend him against the false charges brought against him. Lincoln told Chiniquy that he was NOT unknown to him as he thought, because he followed the case in the newspapers. Lincoln told Chiniquy that he would be happy to defend him against the tyranny of the bishop who persecuted Chiniquy. After Lincoln won the case for Charles Chiniquy he told Lincoln that he saw 10 to 12 enraged Jesuits sitting in the courtroom, and he knew right then and there that Lincoln was a marked man.