New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-01
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Special Dispatch TO the New York Timssl =
Abraham Lincoln the President elect Of the
United States is safe in the capital of the nation.
By the admirable arrangement of Gen. Scott the
country has been spared the lasting disgrace
which would have been fastened indebly upon it
mad Mir. Lincoln been murdered upon his journey
thlther, as he would have been had he followed the
programme as announced in the papers and gone
by the Northern Central Railroad to Baltimore.
On Thursday night after he had retired, Mr..
lincoln was aroused and informed that stranger
desired to see him on matter Of life or death. He
declined to admit him unless he gave his name
which he at once did land such prestige did the
name carry, that while Mr. Lincoln was yet dis
robed, he granted an interview to the caller
prolonged conversation elected the fact that
an organized body of men had determined that Mr..
Lincoln should not be inaugurated and that he
should never leave the city of Baltimore alive, if
indeed, he ever entered it.
The list of the names of the conspirators pre-
scented most astonishing array of persons high
III Southern confidence, and some whose fame is
not confined to this country alone.
Statesmen laid the plan, bankers indorsed it, and
adventureTs were to carry it into effect. As they
understood MIR. Lincoln was to leave Harrisburg
at O'Clock this morning by special train the
idea was, if possible, to throw the cars from the
road at some point where they would rush down
an empankment and destroy in moment the lives
OF all on board In case OF the failure of this pro-
Ject, their plan was to surround the carriage on
the way from.depOt to depot in Baltimore and as
sassnate him with dagger or pistol shot.
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| formation was obtained that Mr.. Lincoln, after
counseling his friends, was compelled to make
arrangements which would enable him to subvert
the plans of his enemies
Greatly to the annoyance of the thousands who
desired to call on him last night he declined to
| give them reception The final council was held
at O'Clock.
Mr., Lincoln did not want to YIELD and Col
Sumner actually cried with Indignation; but Mrs.
Lincoln, seconded by Nj. Judd and Mr. Lucoln's
original informant, insisted upon it, and at 8
o'clock MIR. Lincoln left on q special train. He
wore Scotch plaid cap and a very long military
cloak, SO that he was entirely unrecognizable
Accompanied by Superintendent Lewis and one
friend, he started while all the town, with the ex-
ceptlon Of Mrs. Lincoln, Col Sumner, Mr.. Judd,
ana Two reporters, VINO were sworn to secresy,
supposed hila to be asleep.
| The telegraph wires were put beyond the reach
OF any one who might desire to use them.
Al o'clock the tact was whispered from one to
another, and it soon became the theme OF most
excited conversation. Many thought it a very in
| ludlclous move, while others regarded it as
stroke of great merit.
The special train leaves with the original party,
lncladlng fhe Times correspondent, at o'clock,
and we trust will reach Baltimore in safety.
| The writer of the above says that by Lincoln's
precipftate fight, the country has been spared the
disgrace of his murder. He does not seem to CON
slder the disgrace Of his country, brought on by
me act Of light itself. When the people of other
nations read the statement, the opinions they will
form of our country and its boosted free institu-
tons, must be followed byfeelings of unutterable
disgust and contempt. @@
" al the improbable and absurd stories that
were ever tfumped up to serve as an excuse for
50 unusual and discreditable proceeding, that of
the New York Times is, to us, the most i'm
probable and the most absurd. 1t is, in the first
place, slanderous reproach upon the character
OF the American people to assert that scheme of
such Internal and dabolica malignity should
have been concocted at all. That there might be
found some crazy desperate who would attempt
the assassination Of Mr. Lincoln is not improba-
ble-but that any set of men would conspire
together to throw whole train of cars down an
embankment, merely to destroy one man--tbat
they would murder innocent people, women and
children, for the purpose Of getting at Lncoln-is
SO supremely ridiculous that it is an insult to the
popular intelligence to publish such a story
When it is added that statesmen, whose fame ex
tends beyond the limits of the country, proposed
the plot, and that bankers endorsed it, the very
utmost verge of absurdity is reached, and the
caiidrd, instead of being ridiculous, becomes ab-
selutely sublime.
We would be glad to believe the statement of
this writer that Mr.. Lincoln himself protested
against this flight by night but subsequent
statement that he consented to disguise himself in
Scotch plaid and military cloak, leaves us no
room for even that charitable superstition 1t was
bad enough to agree to fly in so secret and sudden
manner; it was still worse to dress himself up in
theatrical garb, with the idea of avoiding suppo
sitious danger at midnight and on train of cars
moving at the rate of forty miles an hour
The North ought to understand that nobody in
the South wishes even to modest Mr.. Lincoln
much less to murder him. He is as safe from
Southern violence as Northern. The South has no
objection to Lincoln being President of the North.
nor do the Southern people propose, in any way,
to interfere with the Northern Union, unless they
themselves be first assailed. Mr.. Lincoln NAV
quake with alright at imaginary dangers, if he
chooses; but to attempt to disgrace the whole
American people in the eyes of the world, as the
New York Times has done, by publishing this
story OF conspiracy to assassinate him, is
scandalous abuse of the freedom of the press
The whole thing, we undertake to say, existed
only in the imagnations of Lincoln's retinue and
retainers.
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