National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-12-18
tizans, and in whose circles Dixie
and My Maryland are still mourn

and My Maryland are still mourn
fully sung over the Iost cause
Many Baltimore bellies are living
who might innocently blush at the
disclosures of the daily reports OF
one who in 1861 they called the fas-
cinating Howard of New Orleans.
Another of pinkerton's agents
was a graver man, one whose devo-
ton to his country in the most per.
iious and thankless character of a
spy, led to his ignominious death
at Richmond. | may therefore call
him by his real name, Timothy Web
ster. He was adapted to operate
on the middle and lower classes OF
society; of great physical strength
and endurance, skilled in all athlet-
ic sports, good shot, and with a
strong will and courage bordering
on rashncss yet always iustifying
his rashness by an ingenuity and
fertility Of invention which saved
aim from a thousand perils, and at
last falling a victim only because
sickness rendered him incapable of
executing his otherwise successful
plans of escape; u man whose ex.
ploits as the Union spy would in
daring and romance equal, If not
SurpaSs, those of the Harvey Birch
Of Cooper.
There were other agents, and
amCng them Il Mrs. Warn, a lady
whom the chivalry Of the .lonumen.
tai city would have pronounced as
| fascinating as some of their fair
friends did Howard
By the 18th of February Pinkcr.
tons machinery was in running or
der, his agents in full communion
with the clubs and secret societies
Of Baltimore, 50 that an interview
was planned and brought about be-
tW cen Howard's chief and Il Capt
( Fernaudina, one Of the most active
of the C0nspirators. Eernandina
! WAS an Italian or of Italian descent.
He had lived in the South for many
years, and was thoroughly possess,
ed Of the idea Of Southern wrongs,
and that the South had been out
ragged 10y the election Of Lincoln :;
and, educated with Italian ideas,
he justified the use of the stiletto
ana assassination as means of pre-
venting the President elect from
taking the executive chair. He
vas an enthusiast and fanatic. In
the interview with Fernandlna,
which took place at - 5 Don,
in the presence Of some Of the mill
tary company he commanded-hiS
Lieutenant and others IN their con
hdCncu--in the course OF the conver-
satjon Vtruandna, believing he
was addressing thorough scceS-
sionjst. said: "Lincoln shall never
bc President. Ny lie IS OF n9 cen
sequence, am willing 20 give it
fox his. | will sell my life for that
abolitionists'. AS Orsini gave his
life for Italy, | am ready to die for
the rights OF the South
Some one present remarked, are
there no means OF saving the South
except by assassination = 40, said
he, you might as we'll try to blow
down the Washington mLnument
/ with your breath as to change or
purpose-dic he m2st and Sha(i
. and he added, turning to Capt. T..
| a co-opcrator, we will il necessary
=. all die together Every captain
will in that day prove himselfa hero
: The first shot fired. the head traitor
t Lincoln dead, and all Maryland vii
1 he with us and the South freed
+ Mr.. H. said he. turning t'
pmkcgton, If alone must do 1t
F.. shall not hesitate. Lincoln shal
i die in this city"
=. The next day piukcrtun mkt tli'
5 same Capt. T., one of Fernandina'
i, associates, who called Pinkeitol
II aside and whispered, 1T is deter
o mined that the id Lincoln shal
t never pass through here alive. Th'
). id abolltionist shall never sc
c foot on Southern soil but TO find
, grave he added Il have seen Col
|. Kane, Chief Of Police, and he is al
|. right. and in enc week from to-da.
q the North shall want new Presi
II dent, for Lincoln will be dead
h Among the associates of Howar
/. he meets with Il fast Young gentl,
&c M IN by the name Of Hill, who prouC
= ~ exhibits a gold Palmetto badg,
n and represents himself as u licntcl
+. ant in the Palmetto Guards, a S,
- crct military organization III Bait
S. more. Howard, the ardent sece
n. sionist from New Orleans, chidin
II the slower and more cautious actio
N of the friends in Maryland, an
4 Hill, of the Palmetto Guards b
'd come bosom friends. They drinl
r. so to concerts, theatres, and 9TH
20 places OF amusement together. Iii
is who has social position in Bali
+. more, introduces his accomplish,
ht friend from Louisiana, and final
&c opens to him, in part, the secrets
'c. the plot to assassinatc Lincoln. !
bs himself goes into it with rcluctant
IN what pity says he TO Howar
y that this glorious Union must
so destroyed all on account of tn
is monster Lincolnp
ed The plan was to excite and eXG
H. peratc the popular feeling again
ss Mr.. Lincoln to the utmost. On d
wv published programme he was to O
n. ter Baltimore from Harrisburg
rd the 22d of February, by the Mort