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The three plans, by one of which the conspirators expected to prevent the safe conveyance of Mr. Lincoln to Washington were these: 1) At some point this side of the Maryland, the train conveying the party was to be thrown from the track and precipitated down an embankment. ... 2) In case it was deemed best to allow the first plan to go by default, it was determined, by means of an infernal machine, to blow up the car in which Mr. Lincoln was to ride. ... 3) The favorite, and in all probability the only feasible plan was to surround the carriage in which Mr. Lincoln would ride from depot to depot in the City of Baltimore ...Mrs. Lincoln did not seem in the best of spirits, partially because she did not wholly approve of the course taken, of which, indeed, she was not entirely cognisant, and partially because she felt anxious concerning the fate of her husband.
Mrs. Lincoln and her family reached the Baltimore Depot showed plainly what would have happened had Mr. Lincoln been of the party. ... They shouted -- "Trot him out," "Let's have him," "Come out, old Abe," We'll give you hell," You bloody Black Republicans," -- and other equally polite but more profane ejaculations. Some rude fellows entered the private apartment in which Mrs. Lincoln was sitting ... After a half an hour's experience of this sort of thing, Mrs. Lincoln and her son were taken to a carriage, which they entered without attracting much attention, and were driven to the house of the President of the road.
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