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to the meeting, it appeared that the trustees had desired him to disperse the mob, and not the meeting.
The presiding officer (Mr. Edmund Quincy) thereupon called upon him to fulfil his duty and eject the mob from the hall, which was done within ten minutes, to the intense chagrin of the rioters and the discomfiture of the mayor, and the meeting proceeded without further serious interruption.
The mayor, on leaving the hall, promised that an adequate police force should be sent to protect the evening meeting, and he then returned to the City Hall to issue an order that the hall should be closed and no meeting permitted there that evening.
These events took place at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, on the 24th of January, 1861. -Eds.]
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