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Excerpt from The Magazine of History With Notes and Queries, Vol. 13: February 1911
Continuing, he said, John told me they were engaged in running cotton from the South into our lines, as a blind; that they had planned to kidnap Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet, take them over the Potomac into rebel territory, and thus force the North to compromise with the South. If they could not effect an advantageous compromise, they would hold them for a large ransom; in either case there was-big money in it. The time set was Inauguration Day, March 4, as then there would be so many strangers in the city that people's attention would be diverted, and this Would give them a better chance to operate.
They had arranged with rebels across the Potomac to have men and horses ready there, to get the captives to Richmond as quickly as possible. John Surratt had shown him letters alleged to be from persons in the rebel government - but he would not Show the signatures. He said all arrangements, every detail, had been made, and they only waited for March 4th; there was not the slightest chance of failure, and now the time was drawing near to act, if act they do.
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