Carol that's very interesting! Thanks for the snopes link.

Here's some information about President Lincoln's Bank War you referred to.

According to this link, in his Annual Address to Congress Dec 1861, Lincoln expresses almost identical views to the ones in the 'prophecy' in question:

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration ... No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty -- none less inclined to take, or touch, aught that they have not honestly earned. Let them beware of surrendering a political power which they already possess, and which, if surrendered, will surely be used to close the door of advancement against such as they, and to fix new disabilities and burdens upon them, till all of liberty shall be lost .... "

I remember hearing as a child how Lincoln had a dream foretelling his death a couple days before he was assassinated. I found the information at this site. Here's the dream, as he (allegedly) related it his friend Will Hill Lamon ...

"There seemed to be a death like stillness about me. Then I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. I thought I left my bed and wandered downstairs. I went from room to room...the same mournful sounds of distress met me as I passed along...I kept on until I arrived at the East Room, which I entered. There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse...'Who is dead in the White House?' I demanded of one of the soldiers. 'The President,?' was the answer, ''He was killed by an assassin.' Then there came a loud burst of grief from the crowd, which awoke me from my dream. I slept no more that night; and although it was only a dream, I have been strangely annoyed by it ever sense."

Well, if President Lincoln was no stranger to pre-cognitive dreams, and was deeply committed to preventing the social conditions of which the "prophecy" speaks, then ... then ... the plot thickens ...

daylia