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390 HISTORY OF MARYLAND.
"But as to any purpose to offer violence or indignity to the president elect, I affirm,,
without hesitation, and with ample means of knowledge, that no such purpose existed,
and that he would have passed through the city with perfect safety and entire freedom
from any mark of disrespect.
" These slanders upon the good name of the city of Baltimore, now one of the quietest
and most orderly in the country, deserve to be rebuked wherever uttered. * * *
" GEORGE P. KANE, Marshal of Police."
The gross imputations being still flung broadcast throughout the country
against Baltimore, the Board of Polica Commissioners on the 28th of
February, published the following card:
" Office Board of Police, Baltimore, February 28th, 1861.
" The Board of Police deem it proper, to state, for the information of their fellow-
citizens, that the accounts which have appeared in some of the newspapers of other cities,
that ' the police authorities of Baltimore had determined to employ a force of only twenty men
for the special duty of attending to the route of the President's cortege through Baltimore' on
Saturday last, that '■yielding to the pressure of public opinion, they determined to have out the
whole force, though they stitt believed that twenty men would be all-sufficient," or that they were
influenced in the slightest degree in making or changing any of their arrangements by
representations alleged to have been made to them by Mr. Kennedy, superintendent of
the New York police, or by any other person or persons from New York or Washington,
are all and each of them utterly untrue. *
" The board take this opportunity of also expressing their entire conviction that the
whole story, so industriously circulated, of there having been any intention, or any plan
concocted to assassinate or injure the President elect on his journey from Harrisburg to
Washington, is utterly destitute of any reasonable foundation. His passage through this'
city, they have always felt assured, and again unhesitatingly say, would have been made
in safety.
" This subject had been under the consideration of the board for some time past, and
they had determined to make, and accordingly had made the amplest arrangements to
insure such a result. By order of the board. « CHARLES HOWARD, President."
Notwithstanding these authoritative denials, and the absence of all
evidence to bring home to any one human being the slightest knowledge of
the pretended plot, the existence of the alleged conspiracy was stoutly
maintained. The New York Times did not doubt that " the project of
assassinating Mr. Lincoln," had been " seriously canvassed," and that the
"plans had been laid for its accomplishment." The Courier was equally
satisfied that General Scott and Mr. Seward, had "sufficient evidence" in
their possession to justify the belief that if the President elect had passed
through Baltimore, "an attempt would have been made upon his life." One
paper told its readers about the arrangement which had been made to shoot
Mr. Lincoln with an air-gun ; another said that the work was to be done with
a revolver, and that a steamer was lying in the harbor ready to take the
assassins to Mobile as soon as the deed was done; another informed the public
that " a club of fifteen persons were sworn to accomplish his assassination," and that one of the fifteen "was a secret agent of the government, who divulged the plans of the junta as rapidly as they ware matured"—
| Title | History of Maryland - 3 |
| Creator | Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas) |
| Publisher | J. B. Piet |
| Place of Publication | Baltimore |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000421 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 390 HISTORY OF MARYLAND. "But as to any purpose to offer violence or indignity to the president elect, I affirm,, without hesitation, and with ample means of knowledge, that no such purpose existed, and that he would have passed through the city with perfect safety and entire freedom from any mark of disrespect. " These slanders upon the good name of the city of Baltimore, now one of the quietest and most orderly in the country, deserve to be rebuked wherever uttered. * * * " GEORGE P. KANE, Marshal of Police." The gross imputations being still flung broadcast throughout the country against Baltimore, the Board of Polica Commissioners on the 28th of February, published the following card: " Office Board of Police, Baltimore, February 28th, 1861. " The Board of Police deem it proper, to state, for the information of their fellow- citizens, that the accounts which have appeared in some of the newspapers of other cities, that ' the police authorities of Baltimore had determined to employ a force of only twenty men for the special duty of attending to the route of the President's cortege through Baltimore' on Saturday last, that '■yielding to the pressure of public opinion, they determined to have out the whole force, though they stitt believed that twenty men would be all-sufficient," or that they were influenced in the slightest degree in making or changing any of their arrangements by representations alleged to have been made to them by Mr. Kennedy, superintendent of the New York police, or by any other person or persons from New York or Washington, are all and each of them utterly untrue. * " The board take this opportunity of also expressing their entire conviction that the whole story, so industriously circulated, of there having been any intention, or any plan concocted to assassinate or injure the President elect on his journey from Harrisburg to Washington, is utterly destitute of any reasonable foundation. His passage through this' city, they have always felt assured, and again unhesitatingly say, would have been made in safety. " This subject had been under the consideration of the board for some time past, and they had determined to make, and accordingly had made the amplest arrangements to insure such a result. By order of the board. « CHARLES HOWARD, President." Notwithstanding these authoritative denials, and the absence of all evidence to bring home to any one human being the slightest knowledge of the pretended plot, the existence of the alleged conspiracy was stoutly maintained. The New York Times did not doubt that " the project of assassinating Mr. Lincoln," had been " seriously canvassed," and that the "plans had been laid for its accomplishment." The Courier was equally satisfied that General Scott and Mr. Seward, had "sufficient evidence" in their possession to justify the belief that if the President elect had passed through Baltimore, "an attempt would have been made upon his life." One paper told its readers about the arrangement which had been made to shoot Mr. Lincoln with an air-gun ; another said that the work was to be done with a revolver, and that a steamer was lying in the harbor ready to take the assassins to Mobile as soon as the deed was done; another informed the public that " a club of fifteen persons were sworn to accomplish his assassination," and that one of the fifteen "was a secret agent of the government, who divulged the plans of the junta as rapidly as they ware matured"— |
