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Title: Abraham Lincoln; a history
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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tigation of the Select Com-mittee of Five, though it found no organized plotto seize the capital of the nation, gave abundanttraces of secession conspuacy of various degrees—especially of half-formed military companies, or-ganizing to prevent Northern troops from passingthrough Baltimore to Washington or other pointsin the South. As part and parcel of this scheme,the railroads were to be destroyed and the bridgesburned. The events of April, as they actuallyoccuired, had already been planned, informally atleast, in January. Aside from patriotism, the duty of protectingthe tracks and bridges of the railroad of which hewas president induced Mr. Felton to call to his aidMr. Allan Pinkerton, chief of a Chicago detectiveagency, whom he had before employed on an im-portant matter. He was a man of great skill and resources (writes Mr.Felton). I furnished him with a few hints and at onceset him on the track with eight assistants. There werethen drUhng upon the line of the railroad some three
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FREDERICK W. SEWARD. LINCOLNS SECRET NIGHT JOURNEY 305 military organizations, professedly for home defense, pre- chap. xx.tending to be Union men, and in one or two instancestendering their services to the railroad in case of trouble.Their propositions were duly considered; but the defenseof the road was never intrusted to their tender mercies.The first thing done was to enlist a volunteer in each ofthese military companies. They pretended to come fromNew Orleans and Mobile, and did not appear to be want-ing in sympathy for the South. They were furnishedwith uniforms at the expense of the road, and drilled asoften as their associates in arms; became initiated intoall the secrets of the organization, and reported every dayor two to their chief, who immediately reported to me thedesigns and plans of these military companies. One ofthese organizations was loyal; but the other two weredisloyal, and fully in the plot to destroj^ the bridges, andmarch to Washington, to wrest it from the ha

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