[117] Greeley afterwards truly said that his journal had plenty of company in these sentiments, even among the Republican sheets. _Amer. Conflict_, i. 359. Reference is made in the text to the utterances of the _Tribune_ more because it was so prominent and influential than because it was very peculiar in its position. [118] Wilson, _Rise and Fall of Slave Power_, iii. 63-69; N. and H. in. 255. See account of "the Pine Street meeting," New York, in Dix's _Memoirs of Dix_, i. 347. [119] For an account of this by General Dix himself, see _Memoirs of John A. Dix_, by Morgan Dix, i. 370-373. [120] Arkansas, California, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, and Wisconsin [121] It differed from that of the United States very little, save in containing a distinct recognition of slavery, and in being made by the States instead of by the people. [122] _American Conflict_, i. 351. [123] This includes Delaware, 110,420, and Maryland, 599,846. [124] Marshal Kane and most of the police were reported to be Secessionists. Pinkerton, _Spy of the Rebellion_, 50, 61. [125] Lamon says that Mr. Lincoln afterwards regretted this journey, and became convinced "that he had committed a grave mistake." Lamon, 527. So also McClure, 45, 48. [126] For accounts of this journey and statements of the evidence of a plot, see Schouler, _Hist. of Mass. in Civil War_, i. 59-65 (account by Samuel M. Felton, Prest. P.W. & B.R.R. Co.); N. and H. iii. ch. 19 and 20; Chittenden, _Recoll. of Lincoln_, x.; Holland, 275; Arnold, 183-187; Lamon, ch. xx. (this account ought to be, and doubtless is, the most trustworthy); Herndon, 492 (a bit of gossip which sounds improbable); Pinkerton, _Spy of the Rebellion_, 45-103. On the anti-plot side of the question the most important evidence is the little volume, _Baltimore and the Nineteenth of April_, 1861, by George William Brown. This witness, whose strict veracity is beyond question, was mayor of the city. One of his statements, especially, is of the greatest importance. It is obvious that, if the plot existed, one of two things ought to occur on the morning of February 23, viz.: either the plotters and the mobsmen should know that Mr. Lincoln had escaped them, or else they should be at the station at the hour set for his arrival. In fact they were not at the station; there was no sudden assault on the cars, nor other indication of assassins and a mob. Had they, then, received knowledge of what had occurred? Those who sustain the plot-theory say that the news had spread through the city, so that all the assassins and the gangs of the "Plug Uglies" knew that their game was up. This was _possible_, for Mr. Lincoln had arrived in the Washington station a few minutes after six o'clock in the morning, and the train which was expected to bring him to Baltimore did not arrive in Baltimore until half after eleven o'clock. But, on the other hand, the news was not dispatched from Washington immediately upon his arrival; somewhat later,