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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 1: the Boston mob (second stage).—1835. (search)
fic features to popular and excited assemblages. The Courier thought it a most shamefully good mob. The Daily Advertiser Lib. 5.174. regarded the assemblage not so much as a riot, as the Right and Wrong, 1836, (1) p. 59. prevention of a riot. . . . We consider the whole transaction as the triumph of the law over lawless violence, and the love of order over an attempt to produce riot and confusion. As an amusing instance of heredity, it should be recorded here that the Advertiser of Aug. 5, 1881, cited the legal falsehood employed to incarcerate Mr. Garrison as a striking illustration of the respect which has always been cherished here [in Boston] for legal forms. If any one had attempted to seize the unfortunate prisoner as he left the Old State House, that person and all who abetted him would have been liable to a criminal prosecution for attempting to rescue a prisoner held by due process of law, as well as for inciting a riot. Dogberry could not have surpassed this inventio