Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-03-02
HURRAH FOR JACKSON!
LINCOLN RUNS AWAY.
Leaves his Wife Behind.
w HO HAS PLUCKl

L ne Iresloent elect ran away from 4
Harrisburg, on Friday night, leaving his
wife and family and friends to come after
lim. The hasty fight of Mr.. Lincoln has |
,aused the most intense excitement through !
out the country. The most wonderful and
horrible accounts are given Of diabolical
plot to assassinate him had he adhered to
the original programme of passing through
Baltimore in daylight. According to a
dispatch from Harrisburg to the New York
Uibune, it was arranged to throw the
cars from the track at some point, where
n gang of ferocious rufians would rush
down a steep embankmcnt and destroy at
moment, the lives of all on board -
Having determined to run away himself,
Lincoln left Harrisburg in dissuise in the
night time. :.
The Sun is disposed to censure him
severely for avoiding the direct route to
Baltimore from fear Of assassination, while
he committed Mrs. Lincoln to the train
which was to be blown up. 1t says;
We have inform alton, on the other hand,
that Mrs. Lincoln warmly opposed the
project, and to disprove the whole story
determined in fulfilling the programme tc
Baltimore in her own person, and did so
If this be true, she ought to be the Presi
dent elect. AT all events it is true thai
while Mr.. Lincoln went by another route
he affectionately left Mrs. Lincoln to come
by that on which the cars were to be
thrown off the track at some point be-
tween Harrisburg and Baltimore, when Q
horde of ruffians was to crush down Q
steep embankment and destroy in mo
ment the lives of all on board /" And
the route was followed by Mrs. Lincoln
when no one knew that Mr.. Lincoln was
not on board ; and she arrived safely il
Baltimore and passed on to Washington
, So, there is to be some pluck in the White
House, if it is under bodice.
The Baltimore Exchange says The
t fugacious exploit of the President elect
on Friday night, has disgusted even mor'
than it has astonished this community
$ The mortifying chapter in which are re
corded the incidents of his progress from
, Springfield to Washington, has come to
fitting close. Mr. Lincoln had said ant
: done enough, prior to his arrival at Har
risburg, to make us blush and the rest o
> the world laugh; but the stealthy ant
| ienoble adventure with which the nara
e tive of his journey concludes will inevita
. bly, draw down upon US the derision of al
b civilized nations. The confidence whic
t the country had been invited to repose i
q the wisdom, dignity and judgment of th
+. President elect, had been suddenly an
Q completely destroyed within forty-eigt
hours after he left Springfield, and now h
!, has done that which has sorely shaken til
+. public respect for him as man of deci
> sion and courage. His ignominious Ell
trance into the National Capital will III
Y questionably beget among the people of a
e sections feeling of contempt which it
=. almost impossible to over estimate.
= That these are groundless and infamol
n falsehoods, we hope it is not necessary ft
c us to state. If any proof on this poll
was needed, we might refer to the card
the Marshal of fPolice, which appears
to-dav's issue, and also to the fact that Il
5. family from Harrisburg was not molest
II at any point within the State. 1t was b
Ii lieved everywhere outside Of this cit
20 that Mr.. Lincoln was on that train;
in not one insulting word or gesture anywhe
o. between York and Baltimore indicated t
It. hostile feeling Of the people of Maryla
vn towards the President elect. This f;
ed alone conclusively contradicts the base ia
". rications by which MIR. Lincoln's fool
fears were wrought upon.