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The '''Baltimore Plot''' was an alleged conspiracy in late February 1861 to assassinate [[President-elect]] [[Abraham Lincoln]] ''en route'' to his [[inauguration]]. [[Allan Pinkerton]], 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(contracted; show full)
*[[Ward Hill Lamon]] - personal friend of Lincoln who accompanied him through Baltimore.
*[[George Proctor Kane]] - Baltimore's Marshall of Police who protected [[Mary Todd Lincoln]] as she passed through the city. He escorted her to the home of John Gittings.
*John Gittings - hosted [[Mary Todd Lincoln]] in Baltimore.
*[[Hattie Lawton]] - also known as Hattie H. Lawton
,<ref>Cuthbert (1949) Lincoln
and the Baltimore Plot. p. 4.</ref>,  Lawton was part of Pinkerton's Female Detective Bureau, formed in 1860 to ‘worm out secrets’ by means unavailable to male detectives.

==Aftermath—The public's perception of Lincoln's courage==
[[Image:Lincoln in a cattle car.jpg|thumb|250px|right|"Passage Through Baltimore". President-elect Lincoln depicted ignominiously hiding in a cattle car by [[Adalbert J. Volck]], 1863.]]
(contracted; show full) the fact that such a negative report came from an ardently Republican newspaper gave it instant credibility<ref>Harper p. 90</ref>—much more than it would have enjoyed if it had come from a [[Copperheads (politics)|Copperhead]] or Southern source. When ''The New York Times'' published [[Joseph Howard, Jr.]]'s account of the President-elect disguised in a scotch-cap and long cloak, the nation "rocked with laughter, bringing abuse and ridicule down on Lincoln."
.<ref>Holzer, Harold, ''Lincoln Seen & Heard''. (University Press of Kansas, 2000.) (p. 118)</ref>. Substantively, the Howard article was a direct assault on Lincoln's manliness. The article states that Lincoln was reluctant—too scared—to go and was only compelled to go by Colonel Sumner's indignation and by the insistence—shame—of his wife and several others.<ref>Harper p. 89</ref>.

The newspapers relentlessly<!-- Really? They NEVER stopped? --> lampooned Lincoln for slipping through Baltimore in the dead of night. [[Adalbert J. Volck]], a Baltimore dentist and caricaturist, was inspired to pen his famous satirical etching "Passage through Baltimore". Volck's image of a startled Lincoln in his nightshirt peering out of the side of his rail car as it passes through Baltimore has become part of the Lincoln iconography. "In the nineteenth century, when pictures(contracted; show full)
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