[25] me—and, supported by Sheriff Parkman and Ebenezer Bailey, Esq.1 (the Mayor leading the way), I succeeded in getting into it without much difficulty, as I was not readily identified in my new garb. Now came a scene that baffles the power of description. As the ocean, lashed into fury by the spirit of the storm,
From the City Hall, State St., to the City jail, Leverett St. From Smith's Map of Boston, 1835.
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1 Miss Anne Warren Weston relates (Ms. April 14, 1883): ‘Mr. Ebenezer Bailey, the teacher of the Young Ladies' High School, was in that year [1835] one of the Common Council of Boston. I had been partly educated at his school. . . . Though a man of great generosity and nobility of feeling, and though he had passed some months in Virginia, and sometimes told me of the painful scenes he had witnessed there, he yet shared the pro-slavery sentiment of the time. . . . A day or two after the 21st of October, I dined at his house. He knew I had been one of the women mobbed, and, of course, we met with much warmth and emotion. After the first few words, the following conversation occurred, that I remember textually. I said: “Mr. Bailey, how did Garrison behave ” “No man could have done better,” was his reply. “ He showed perfect courage and selfpossession. He was only very absurd in one thing. He kept saying, ‘Oh, if they would only hear me five minutes, I am sure I could bring them to reason.’ Now you know,” continued he, “that that was ridiculous, for they were all ready to tear him in pieces.” He then went on to relate, with some pride and pleasure, the part he took in Garrison's rescue. He said that when Garrison approached the carriage, he was supported on one side by Sheriff Parkman, and on the other by himself. “Fortunately,” said he, “I had with me a large, strong umbrella, and as we tried to get him into the carriage, there was such a rush made upon him that I struck with my whole strength in every direction, and thus we cleared the way.” ’
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