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<blockquote data-quote="The Driver" data-source="post: 4750796" data-attributes="member: 50657"><p>Last week the Capitol was sacked by terrorists. Kind of justifies the level of security.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/us/politics/presidential-inaugurations.html" target="_blank"><strong>Sharpshooters, Protestors, a Secret Train Trip</strong></a></p><p></p><p><em>"After Abraham Lincoln won election and seven Southern states seceded over his antislavery views, threats to his life forced a change in plans for his trip to Washington to take the oath of office. Private detectives <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-unsuccessful-plot-to-kill-abraham-lincoln-2013956/" target="_blank">uncovered a plot to kill Lincoln</a> when he passed through Baltimore, where he would have to travel across town from one train station to another to make the final leg to the nation’s capital.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Maryland was a slave state and Baltimore a hotbed of Southern sympathy, so Lincoln’s team came up with a way to sneak him through town. Lincoln boarded a special train in Harrisburg, Pa., and security agents cut telegraph wires to keep his departure secret. From Philadelphia, accompanied by just two other men, he took a late-night train to Baltimore, where he arrived undetected at 3:30 a.m., transferred stations and pulled into Washington safely at 6 a.m.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Reporters eventually learned of the subterfuge and mocked him mercilessly, even making up details suggesting that he had worn “a scotch plaid cap and very long military cloak” to disguise himself. The New York Herald tut-tutted that the new president had “crept into Washington” like a “thief in the night.” But no one was taking his security for granted. During the subsequent inauguration, sharpshooters kept watch from roofs, soldiers blocked streets and an artillery unit was deployed to the Capitol."</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Driver, post: 4750796, member: 50657"] Last week the Capitol was sacked by terrorists. Kind of justifies the level of security. [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/us/politics/presidential-inaugurations.html'][B]Sharpshooters, Protestors, a Secret Train Trip[/B][/URL] [I]"After Abraham Lincoln won election and seven Southern states seceded over his antislavery views, threats to his life forced a change in plans for his trip to Washington to take the oath of office. Private detectives [URL='https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-unsuccessful-plot-to-kill-abraham-lincoln-2013956/']uncovered a plot to kill Lincoln[/URL] when he passed through Baltimore, where he would have to travel across town from one train station to another to make the final leg to the nation’s capital. Maryland was a slave state and Baltimore a hotbed of Southern sympathy, so Lincoln’s team came up with a way to sneak him through town. Lincoln boarded a special train in Harrisburg, Pa., and security agents cut telegraph wires to keep his departure secret. From Philadelphia, accompanied by just two other men, he took a late-night train to Baltimore, where he arrived undetected at 3:30 a.m., transferred stations and pulled into Washington safely at 6 a.m. Reporters eventually learned of the subterfuge and mocked him mercilessly, even making up details suggesting that he had worn “a scotch plaid cap and very long military cloak” to disguise himself. The New York Herald tut-tutted that the new president had “crept into Washington” like a “thief in the night.” But no one was taking his security for granted. During the subsequent inauguration, sharpshooters kept watch from roofs, soldiers blocked streets and an artillery unit was deployed to the Capitol."[/I] [/QUOTE]
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