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The Daily Dispatch: January 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Anti-abolition mob at Boston. (search)
Another speaker came forward and endeavored to make himself heard, but he was treated to a hymn to the tune of "Dixie's Land." As there was no help for it, the gallery boys were left to themselves, and such a storm of hissing and howling as they kept up for half an hour has rarely been heard. At length Geo. H. Hoyt came forward to speak. Mr. Hoyt is quite a young man, and acted as one of John Brown's counsel in his trial for the Harper's Ferry raid. He commenced by saying, "I think Garrison spoke the sentiments of the anti-slavery people of Massachusetts, when he said, 'I will not equivocate — I will not surrender a single inch.' That is what he would say to this mob." The noise was still continued, the crowd becoming if possible more boisterous than before. For several minutes the tumult was tremendous, when Mayor Wightman, with the Chief of Police, and a posse of officers, entered the Temple. The whole audience was now thrown into perfect consternation, in the presenc