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The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
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The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
The plot.
--The Cincinnati Commercial, a sensation paper, publishes some letters of warning, looking very like they were written in the office which urged the editor to acquaint Mr. Lincoln that, on his tour, 5,000 men were in a plot to kill him, and at some of the depots on the route, "a broad was to be drawn" on him.
The cat after the Rats.
The town is all agog over a most amusing caricature of Lincoln and the Seceding States, in which the former is represented as a ferocious looking cat, with one paw on that un-fortunate rat, Virginia, whilst the rest of her sisters are scampering for dear life.
South Carolina leads the race, Mississippi and Georgia are next, Alabama and Florida are going it neck, then comes Louisiana, whilst Texas has barely escaped the right paw of Grimalkin, which nearly touches the tail of the fugitive prey.
In one corner is a large rat lying on the flat of his back, with his head off, the United States flag waving over him, and beneath, the inscription, "The Union must and shall be preserved." Virginia is held fairly in the cat's sinister paw, whilst out of his month comes the words: "Nothing is going wrong.
Nothing really hurts anybody.
Nobody is suffering anything," and the unhappy victim consoles himself with the exclamation, "We can go out on the 4th of July a