The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1861-03-14
The Threatened Assassination.

The Ohio Statesman and o,ber papers OF
t. morr unscrupu'ous sort are attempting TO
S ir up measure OF trouble over Lipcon's
private passage to Wa hing on. The Capt.
tal CITY Fact thus meets its Columbus con
lemporaty-both being in the democratic
faui'y
The President elect ofthe United S ates has
been threatened with assassination, the plot
has been exposed and his lite saved THIS is
terrible state of affairs for the land Of uqi-
v rsal suffrage, free speech aud free speeches.
In chronicling the fact th Mr. Lincoln has
provid-nli,l'y escaped The knife of The assas-
sin, th At hoary headed traitor-unhung Who
edus the Ohio Statesman accuses him Of cow
dice Noltiug would have grai6ed Ma
ny penpy more than news that Lincoln had
b en- mdi DE- ed by the Sou bern cut thro ats
aud hat Washing on city had been occupied
by the traitors. This is made plainly evident
by bis exultaion ovec The threatened DANCE.
In all can1or, we ask The law-abiding and or
der loving cilzens nf The Capital ciy, if they
are not dol g themselves ioju slice by to'era-
ting in their families sheet, daily beching
forth blackguardism, treason, defamation aud
slapder? We shall recur to the subject of
the foul plot upon lhe life Of the chosen Chief
Magistrate tomorrow. The di patches of this
morni,g somewhat confiict, aGd we await
iur,her COT Ermation.
Tue National Inteligeucer of the 25th ult
thus di poses of ,he matter
Two or three reports are abrou as 10 the
moives which induced Mr.. Lincoln to aoIici.
pate he publicly announced time of his arri-
val in w ,shing on One is tn 1t he was tele-
graphed b. preseot here for reason OF ae
bett re he separ lion of the p ace Conven-
/ ton. A second that he WAS teiegraphed by
! official par les 10 come On in advance of the
announced time, in order to prevent possible
dist rbSnses that m ght grow out of the c"u-
| f1Ic irg purposes Of the political clubs in Bal.
umorr-of the Republica, clubs 10 honor Mr.
Lincoln with public demonstration, and oI
their far more numerous opponents TO prevent
| it. Our own olution is that under all the
not Mr.. Lincoln himself correctly apprecia,
ted, he deemed it best to avoid all chances Of
turmoil, and at the same time to be relieved
of all further demonstrations, Of which his
journal had been already amply full
The Cincinnati Times of The 25.h ult also
has the following .''
In one word, we entertain not doubt that
had Lincoln presented himself according 10
the programme, in the monumental city,"
the committee would have been assaulted at
the depot. The President might have escap-
ed bat his escape would have beeu miracle.
Baltimore is one Of the most gallant cities in
the Union. hu, she has in ner midst DO ly
of men who fight on g neral account they
care very litile about politics, bat the cry OF
"Aboli ionism' is sufficient TO call them, any
time, into action. NE
However unpleasant it may be to admit the
existing necessity for Lincoln to take the
course that he did, under the circumstances
aud with the advice he had there can be no
difference Of opinion among honest and homo
rable men as to the propriety of his course.
He was really left no personal choice in the
premises.