Harper's Weekly, March 9, 1861
The Flight of Abraham
As Reported by a Modern Daily Paper.
Run Abe for your Life–
The Bloodtubs are
After. yer!!!
“On Thursday night, after he had retired, Mr. LINCOLN was aroused, and informed that a stranger desired to see him on a matter of life and death. * * * A conversation elicited the fact that an organized body of men had determined that Mr. LINCOLN should never leave the City of Baltimore alive. * * * Statesmen laid the plan, Bankers indorsed it, and Adventurers were to carry it into effect ”
---tion--Boo-oo-oo
Run-no- nev-a-r-r
let em S h o o-o-t
Do go. . . do
“Mr. LINCOLN did not want to yield, and his friends cried with indignation. But they insisted, and he left.”
“He wore a Scotch plaid Cap and a very long Military Cloak, so that he was entirely unrecognizable.”
Only a little attack of Ager
Your Excellency
“Mr. LINCOLN, accompanied by Mr. SEWARD, paid his respects to President BUCHANAN, spending a few minutes in general conversation.”
The Flight of Abraham Harper's Weekly, Vol. 5, No. 219, March 9, 1861, Page 162.
The quoted captions above are from: Joseph Howard's Dispatch, 8 A.M. February 23, 1861.