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length shouted, and two or three gentlemen, at the
request of the Mayor,
took it down and lowered it
into the street, where it was speedily demolished."
Mr. Lucius B. Marsh, No. 210 Warren Avenue,
Boston, writes me this morning :
"
I saw Mr. Harry
Williams leave the Mayor s office (Old State House),
and he went directly to the stairs which led up to
the Antislavery Rooms, followed by a large number
of people, who evidently knew, or seemed to know,
the programme.
Mr. Williams in
(One of them carried a hammer.)
a moment or two appeared at the
window with his friend with the hammer. Mr. Wil
liams opened the window, and they both commenced
to take down the sign. He handed the sign towards
the sidewalk, where it was broken to pieces. Mr.
Williams then said : Fellow-citizens,
I have been
directed by his Honor the Mayor to take down this
obnoxious sign. And you are now requested to go
"
to your homes.
Mr. J. B. Palmer, No. 91 Devonshire Street, says
in a letter to me, dated also this morning :
"
Mr.
Williams appeared at the window of the Antislavery
Rooms, and said that, by the order of the Mayor the
sign would be removed, or words to the same pur
port. This I am positive of. The sign was loosened,
.... jumped on, broken in pieces, and carried off by
the mob."
Mr. N. B. Chamberlain, No. 310 Washington Street,
in a letter to me, just received, says: "I can
assure you that I went with Harry Williams to the
Old State House, and met Mayor Lyman on the
steps, during
the afternoon of the Garrison mob.