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{{Infobox_President 
| name = [[Abraham Lincoln]]
| image = Abraham Lincoln head on shoulders photo portrait.jpg
| order = 16th [[President of the United States]]
| term_start = March 4, 1861 
| term_end = April 15, 1865
| successor = [[Andrew Johnson]]
| birth_date = {{bBirth date|1809|2|12|mf=y}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1865|4|15|1809|2|12}}
| death_place =[[Washington, D.C.]]
| vicepresident = [[Hannibal Hamlin]] <br>[[Andrew Johnson]] 
| signature = Abraham Lincoln Signature.png
}}
The '''Baltimore Plot''' was an alleged conspiracy in late February [[1861]] to assassinate [[President-elect]] [[Abraham Lincoln]] ''en route'' to his [[inauguration]]. [[Allan Pinkerton]], eponymous founder of the [[Pinkerton National Detective Agency]], played a key role by managing Lincoln's security throughout the journey. Though scholars debate whether or not the threat was real, clearly Lincoln and his advisors believed that there was a threat and took actions to ensure his safe passage through Baltimore.

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Pinkerton famously clashed with Lincoln’s friend and escort, [[Ward Hill Lamon]], over the President-elect's protection.  Lamon offered Lincoln "a Revolver and a Bowie Knife" but Pinkerton protested that he "would not for the world have it said that Mr. Lincoln had to enter the National Capital Armed."<ref>Cuthbert, N: ''Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, 1861,'' page 79. Huntington Library, 1949.</ref>

On the evening of 
[[February 22]] telegraph lines to Baltimore were cut to prevent communications from passing between potential conspirators in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Meanwhile, Lincoln left Harrisburg on a special train and arrived secretly in Baltimore in the middle of the night. The most dangerous link in the journey was in Baltimore where a city ordinance prohibited night-time rail travel through the downtown area. As a result, the railcars had to be horse-drawn between the President Street and Camden Street stations. 

According to Pinkerton, a captain of the roads reported that there was a plot to stab him.  The alleged plan was to have several assassins, armed with knives, interspersed throughout the crowd that would gather to greet Lincoln at the President Street station. When Lincoln emerged from the car, which he must do to change trains, at least one of the assassins would be able to get close enough to kill him.

{{Infobox Person
| name = [[Cipriano Ferrandini]]
| image = Sun_ferrandini.jpg
| caption =  Cipriano Ferrandini
| birth_date = 1823
| birth_place = [[Corsica]]
| death_date = 1910 (Age 87)
| death_place = [[Baltimore]]
| occupation = Hairdresser, Southern Sympathizer, alleged conspirator
}}
   
Once Lincoln's rail carriage had safely passed through Baltimore, Pinkerton sent a one-line telegram to the president of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad: "Plums delivered nuts safely." 

On the afternoon of [[February 23]], Lincoln's scheduled train arrived in Baltimore. The large crowd that gathered at the station to see the President-elect quickly learned that Lincoln had already passed by. Even though the rest of the Lincoln party, including [[Mary Todd Lincoln|Mrs. Lincoln]] and the children, had been on this train as originally scheduled, they had already alighted from the train in an unscheduled stop several blocks north of the President Street station. <ref>Scharf, John, History of Maryland vol.III, Traditi(contracted; show full)7;s merry greeting to Gen. Scott, "Here we are!" and we should care nothing about it, personally. We do not believe the Presidency can ever be more degraded by any of his successors than it has by him, even before his inauguration.<ref>[http://www.historynet.com/historical_figures/3704871.html?showAll=y&c=y TheHistoryNet | Historical Figures | Abraham Lincoln Takes the Heat<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

===Pratt street riot===
The [[Pratt Street Riot]] in Baltimore on 
[[April 19]] and the subsequent arrest and imprisonment of many prominent city residents did little to endear Baltimore to the Union.

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[[fr:Complot de Baltimore]]