Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1861-03-07
Mr.. Lincoln's Coup d Etat.

The Washington correspondent OF the FhiA
dephia Inquirer makes the following authorta-
tive statement in regard to this matter
s. am able to give you, upon good author
ty Il statement that am assured will set at
rest all doubts as to the contemplated assassin
alton OF Mr. Lincoln, who was informed OF the
conspiracy in Philadelphia on Thursday night,
but did not intend to change his programme OF
progress, until he was urged by bis friends and
Gen Scott, who knew every particular OF ae
ton and intention on the part OF the conclaye.
They were fifteen in number, and one Of them
was supplied with means, by q friend of the
Government Of the United States, to become
an associate He took all the necessary oaths
and disclosed the whole plan both to tie Presi-
dent elect and to Gen. Scott The names Of
all the parties are insthe bands Of the Govern
ment. What disposition will be made OF these
persons is matter Of conjecture but the testi
mony against them is certainly sufficient to con-
Wet them at the bar Of public opinion, If not
before jury"
That Mr.. Lincoln escaped some very unpleas-
ant attentions at Baltimore, is evident from the
descriptions of the scene on the arrival Of the
tram. The Suns account says
A mighty heaying and surging in the null.
titudo at the north entrance Of the depot pro-
claimed some excitement and in few minutes
the York train entered the depot When the
train stopped the crowd lcaped upon the plat.
forms and mounted to the tops Of the cars like
50 many monkeys, shouting, hallooing, and
making all manner Of noises. Officers in charge
OF the train appeared, and the crowd recoiled,
but prepared for another excitement
After it became apparent to the multitude
that the President elect had indeed escaped their
attentions, they turned about to bestow them
upon such Of his humber constituents whom
they recognized in their midst. Those atten-
tons were exhibited in system of crowdng
and squeezing, exceedingly unpleasant to those
upon whose persons the pressure was brought
to bear.
A correspondent Of a New York paper who was
in the train, writes as follows
Mrs. Lincoln and her family reaching the
Baltimore depot, showed plainly what un-
doubtadly would have happened had Mr.. Lincoln
been of the party. \ vast crowd-a multitude,
in iact-had altered in and about the prem.
ses. II WAS evident that they considered the
announcement Of Mr.. Lincoln's presence in
Washington mere rusc for, thrusting then
heads in at the windows, they shouted Groi
him ont, Let's have him, Come out, old
Abe, Wen give you hell You bloody Black
Republicans and other equally polite but
more proiane calculations. Some rude fellow.
entered the private apartment in which Mrs.
Lincoln was sitting with the accomplished
daughters Of the Speaker OF the Pennsylvania
Legislature, but were promptly turned cut by
/ Mr. Hay, who locked the door. As the par
ties composing the suit, and the various cor
respondents issued from the car, there was au
exhibition Of rude yugarity and disregard o
personal comfort that have never seen equaled
On our arrival at the other depot, we iount
Mrs. Lincoln. Mrs. Capt. Hazard, Robert Lin
coin, and several old gentlemen, seated in
car, around whom had gathered a crowd of i'll
bred men and boys, who had hecn insulting
them in that most dcspicable of all ways ,cryin,
ont dirty and foul language, peering mpru
IDENTIFY at them, and actually forcing up th
5 windows which those INSIDE had shut. Tn
e police did not know that the party were in tia
ear, but had kept vacant a very large spae
about the tram which was prepared for them
and when the information was given them
they cleared those boys out in mighty shol
c. order.