Lincoln and was supposed to be the recipient of a note from Booth at a Washington hotel was in fact according to his principle biographer, H. L. Trefousse at the Kirkwood House and awakened at 10:15 by governor Farwell of Wisconsin the night of the assassination. This fact seems to clear him. And all though he was suspected by Mrs. Lincoln, her fragile emotional state tends to weaken my accepting her suspicion of Johnson. Johnson's later conduct was so generous to the south and so true to Lincoln's second inaugural address, "with malice toward none; with charity for all;" suggest that Johnson is unlikely to have been a conspirator. For this Lincoln like conduct he was so disliked by, "the bloody shirts," Republicans in Congress who wanted to punish the South that they later impeached him for firing Secretary Stanton. Additionally the consideration of a Catholic Church conspiracy is weakened along with any suspicion of Johnson. Johnson, who was a Protestant Fundamentalist, was a great supporter of the Catholic Church because of their widespread charitable activities. This admiration lead to his invitation to the Catholic Second Plenary Council in Baltimore, which among other things commemorated the Catholic soldiers who died on both sides in the Civil War. .
Disaffected northerners whether anti-war or revengeful "bloody shirts" is always a possibility for a conspiracy but does not seem likely because politicians are always undermining each other and in-fighting.While Lincoln's recently successful conduct of the war and the Emancipation Proclamation had greatly satisfied the radical Republicans, were unlikely to consider it wise to, as Lincoln had said in another context, "change horses in mid stream". .
International bankers may have had some dislike of Lincoln because of losses in the cotton trade and the printing of money but American bankers were not as nearly as hostile to Lincoln as they might have been to Jackson or Polk.
