uthern feelings and hatred for Lincoln's policies and beliefs. Lincoln supported everything for which John Wilkes Boo!
             During the 1850s Booth, a well-known racist, became involved in the Know-Nothing Party. This was a political party that wanted to keep immigrants out of the country and preserve it for white, native born citizens. In October of 1859 Booth joined a Virginia militia known as the Richmond Grays. His main reason for joining the militia was to participate in the arrest and execution of abolitionist John Brown who he said, "had no right to other's affairs south of the Mason and Dixon Line." Although he promised his mother that he would not join the confederate army, Booth supported the sout
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