Plot to Kill Lincoln - Discovered

As he traveled to Washington for his inauguration, Abraham Lincoln was told of a plot to kill him.

In this graphic version of the story, printed in the 9 March 1861 edition of Harper's Weekly, the President-Elect learns about the problem and decides how to respond. The captions read:

(1.) THE ALARM
“On Thursday night, after he had retired, Mr. Lincoln was aroused, and informed that a stranger desired to see him on a matter of life and death. *** A conversation elicited the fact that an organized body of men had determined that Mr. LINCOLN should never leave the City of Baltimore alive. *** Statesmen laid the plan, Bankers indorsed it, and Adventurers were to carry it into effect.”

(2.) THE COUNCIL
“Mr. LINCOLN did not want to yield, and his friends cried with indignation. But they insisted, and he left.”

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