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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 14: the Boston mob (first stage).—1835. (search)
heir nefarious transactions; and again, on the 4th of July, when, the editor of the Liberator delivering an address at Julien Hall, the Gazette proposed throwing the mischievous Garrison Lib. 5.109. and his hearers overboard like the tea spilt in Boston Harbor during the Revolution. A cold bath would do them good. Two influences Boston could not escape: one, the example of Congress in repressing free speech; the other, the example of sister cities carried away by Southern panic. On February 2, Mr. Dickson, of New York, Lib. 5.26, 30. presented in the House of Representatives the petition of eight hundred ladies for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, and, in a favorable speech, asserting the power of Congress in the premises, moved its reference to a select committee; but the House, by a three-fifths vote, chose to lay it on the table. On February 11, like petitions were presented in the Senate Lib. 5.30. from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maine, and referred