well, fred seward recalled this corroborative account, convincing lincoln the plot was real. lincoln would later recount to a history benson j. lawsing, that once he received this report, he'd also believed that the plot was real. as lincoln recalled, "i met frederick seward. we went to my room together. when he told me that he had been sent at the instance of his father and general scott to inform me that their detectives am baltimore had discovered a plot there to assassinate me, i now believed such a plot to be in existence." all right. okay. i'm going to quickly finish up. there's one more -- two more points i want to make before i open it for questions. one is that allen pinkerton's reports talked about the road that the rowdies and the crowd were going to get up on the morning of february 23rd of 1861 he talks about how they had rotten eggs. and the plan was to throw these rotten eggs, and in the process this would draw the police away from protecting abraham lincoln and allow the assassins to move in and either shoot or stab abraham lincoln. my research found two indep