Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-06-14

/ vised especially OF any personal dan
/ ger until he was about to 60 to Harris
burg, and then, at the instance Of the
/ gentleman referred to, he was urged to
/ proceed without delay to Washington.
! He replied, however, that he had prom
/ ised the people of Harrisburg to an
/ swer their Invitation, and he would do
/ so if it cost kim his life. He according
/ ly visited Harrisburg on the 22d of
/ February, 1861. 1t was intended he
/ should rest there that evening. But un-
I der the management of the gentle
/ man" another arrangement was eff
fecUed. The night train from Philadel-
phia to Baltimore and Washington
/ left at I05% o'clock in the evening. It
was determined that Lincoln should
of the 23d and to enable him to do so
( a special train was provided to bring
him secretly from Harrisburg to Phila-
delphia. After dark in the former
city, when it was presumed he had re-
tired to his hotel, he accordingly took
the special train, and came to Phila-
delphia. Meanwhile, in anticipation
of his coming, ''the gentleman" had in
sured the detention of the Philadelphia
and Baltimore train, under the pre-
tense that a parcel of important doeu-
ments for one of the departments in
Washington must be dispatched by it,
but which might not be ready until af-
ter the regular time of the starting of
that train. By similar representation
the connecting train from Baltimore to
Washington was also detained. Owing
to the late hour at which the special
train left Harrisburg with Mr.. Lincoln,
it did not, as was anticipated, reach
this city until after the usual Philadel-
phia and Baltimore time. Mr.. Lincoln
was accompanied by the officer who
had been employed in Baltimore. A
formidable bundle of old railroad re-
ports had been made up in the Office of
the Philadelphia and Baltimore Com
pany, which the officer, duly instruct
ed, had charge of. On the arrival of
the Harrisburg train, Mr.. Lincoln took
q carriage in waiting, and with his es-
cOrt was driven TO the depot at Broad
and Prime streets. The officer made
some Ostentatious hustle, arriving with
his parcel for which the train was de-
tanned, and passing through the depot |
entered the cars, Mr.. Lincoln in his |
company. As Mr.. Lincoln passed |
through the gate, the man attending it
remarked, "Old fellow, it's well for |
you the train was detained tonight, or
you wouldn't have gone in it." No one !
aboard the train but the agent Of the /
and the officer knew of Mr.. /
LincOln's being in it. He was conduct !
ed to a sleeping car, and thus was kept |
out of the way of observation. To !
guard against any possible cOmmuni- /
cation by telegraph at this time, the !
circuit was broken, to be united when /
it would be safe to do so. The plan OF
the conspiratOrs was to break or burn
one Of the bridges north of Baltimore, /
at the time of Mr.. Lincoln's anticipat-
ed approach, on the following day, and /
in the confusion incident to the stop
page Of the train, to assassinate him in
the cars, Hence the extra precautiOn |
above mentioned, regarding the tele-
graph In due time the train with Mr..
Lincoln reached Washington, and he
being safe there, the officer, SO previous
ly instructed, sent a dispatch to ''the
that "the parcel of docu-
ments had been delivered" The pub
lie, and, above all, the conspirators,
awOke on the morning of the oath to
be astOnished with the intelligence that
Mr.. Lincoln had arrived in Washing
ton. 1t may be well to mention here
that the story Of his disguise in a
Scotch cap" and cloak was untrue.
He wore his ordinary travelling cap,
and was in no sense of the word dis
guised.