Posted on 11/27/2024 6:45:58 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
The diabolical plot to burn the City of New-York, published yesterday morning, proves to be far more extensive than was at first supposed. It is already proved to the entire satisfaction of the authorities, that the affair was planned by the rebels and has been in preparation for a long time past, the men selected to perform the work were sent to this City at various times and under various pretexts, and arriving here they formed themselves into a regularly organized band, had their various officers, including a treasurer, whom they could always find, and who was always ready to supply them with the money necessary to carry out their infernal work, and they proceeded deliberately to mature their plans for one of the most fiendish and inhuman acts known in modern times.
The plan was excellently well conceived, and evidently prepared with great care, and had it been executed with one-half the ability with which it was drawn up, DO human power could have saved this city from utter destruction. It was evidently the intention of the conspirators to fire the city, at a given moment, at a great many different points, each as far remote from the other as possible, except through Broadway, and this thoroughfare they wished to see in a complete blaze, from one end to the other. To do this, they commenced at the St. James Hotel, corner of Broadway and Twenty-fifth-street, next the Filth-avenue Hotel, extending from Twenty-third to Twenty-fourth-street, then (missing the New-York Hotel, which it seems was not included in their list) the Lafarge House and Winter Garden Theatre, just below Amity-street; next followed the St. Nicholas, Metropolitan, Howard, Belmont, and others. In all thirteen of our principal hotels.
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The Plot: How the Plan was Conceived – 2-3
Orders from Gen. Dix – 3-4
City Politics – 4
Death of a Noted Guerrilla – 4
The Vote and Population of Philadelphia – 4
Inspection of Custom-Houses – 4
The War in Tennessee: Hood’s Army Concentrating at Columbia, Tenn. – 4
Gen. Sheridan’s Cavalry: The Damage it Has Done – 4
Sherman’s Campaign-Climatic Influences – 5
Release of Prisoners: Their Horrible Condition – 5
The War in the Southwest – 5
Southern News: Sherman’s Progress Through Georgia – 5-9
News from Washington – 9
Editorial: The Incendiaries – First Forewarnings – Gen. Dix’s Orders – 9-10
Editorial: Divided Allegiance – A Southern Lady’s Views of the Rebellion – 10
“Finding Their Way Home” – 10
At first I thought this was about the attempt on Trump. From the NYT?!
I thought it was about the Summer of Love riots.
Any chance of resurrecting this plot?
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