The Baltimore Plot: What was Pinkerton Thinking?

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Look really hard at Cipriano Ferrandini. And consider that he was an immigrant from Corsica at a time when revolutionaries were sweeping through Europe trying to overthrow tyrannical heads of state. To such men, Abraham Lincoln represented that type of tyranny even before he took office. George Nicholas Sanders was a protege of the revolutionaries and a first-class instigator back here in America.>

Some keen insights into what, in a much larger picture, may have been taking place --and that George N. Sanders was a heavy player in politics in the USA and Europe too. I am researching him. And yes Gene that is a very good article on Ciprianno and the ominous 'Corsican' connection of professional assassins, military adventurers. My current thinking is the the Otis K. Hillard was an alias, hard to trace.
I'm sure there are more (and more modern than my research)
books on this topic, and likely I am somewhat duplicating their
recent efforts.