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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 34 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 32 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition. 24 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 24 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 20 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8 18 0 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 18 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 18 0 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2 16 0 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 14 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Anti-abolition mob at Boston. (search)
expressed that the gallery would fall, the creaking of the corn creaks leading some to suppose that the building was giving way. But nothing would stop the furious disposition of the disturbers of the meeting.--The police stood quietly by, looking on. Presently another camp meeting hymn was started, and the people in the gallery having nothing better to do, began to pitch the cushions of the seats upon the audience below, in the midst of yelling and howling as ferocious as that of frontier Indians, the people dodging about to escape the blows from the cushions. Then there was increased confusion, the meeting being at a perfect stand still. The Temple was completely in the hands of the mob, which increased every moment. Mr. Edmund Quincy, the acting chairman, now came to the front of the platform, howling out as loudly as possible in such an uproar, "If the police have been instructed by the Mayor to stand up and do their duty, they will proceed to disperse this mob."