The Hour Of Peril: The Secret Plot To Murder Lincoln Before The Civil War - Plot & Excerpts
Who will not embrace the opportunity to look upon the NATION’S HEAD, the NATION’S DELIVERER, the PEOPLE’S FAVORITE and FRIEND?Remember, this is the last chance in New York.—advertisement for Barnum’s American Museum, February 21, 1861EARLY ON THE MORNING of February 21, even as David Bookstaver made his report to Charles Stone in Washington, Abraham Lincoln boarded a steam ferry at New York’s Cortlandt Street terminal for a brief, choppy crossing of the Hudson River to New Jersey, the first leg of that day’s travel to Philadelphia. It was soon apparent, as Lincoln came ashore to a familiar scene of chaos at the landing in Jersey City, that he had passed out of Superintendent John Kennedy’s efficient jurisdiction. “The Jersey police were overwhelmed,” reported the New York Times. “Vainly did they brandish their clubs and push the crowd back.” As Lincoln moved toward the train that would carry him south, an enthusiastic “Son of Erin” barreled out of the crowd in a giddy effort to shake his hand.
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