Booth's Escape Route

[Linda Anderson]

(02-11-2013 02:57 PM)Laurie Verge Wrote:  No one ever mentions that Seward received death threats throughout the war. Is there any evidence of it? I would think that he had to have received some. He was likely hated by some as much as Lincoln was.

Last year Betty sent me an article from the Springfield Republican dated 4/20/1865.

"On the day before he was thrown from his carriage and disabled, Mr. Seward received letters from Canada, warning him of a plot, then nearly ripe for execution, to assassinate all the leading members of the government, and stating it was got up by the leading emissaries in Canada, and was to be carried out under their direction. He consulted another member of the cabinet on the subject, and although previous warnings of a similar tenor had proven groundless, it was decided that certain measures of precaution should be taken. Mr. Seward's accident alone prevented the fulfillment of their intention."