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It is proper first to see what charges Mr. Phillips
brings forward. In his lecture he made only one,
which I will call
A. That the Mayor meanly entreated rioters to
obey the laws (see No. I.).
In No. II. it will be found that he has added as
follows :
B. That the Mayor never sought to command the
mob, nor did he issue any order.
C. That he consented, if he did not assist, at tear
ing down the antislavery sign, and throwing
it to
the mob, to propitiate its rage.
D. That he broke his pledge (what pledge ?) made
to the Female Antislavery Society.
E. That he ordered said Society to disperse.
F. That he had ample means to control the mob,
but did not control,
and should have shot ten men ;
and did not shoot.
Before considering these charges, it will be well
to introduce two or three accounts of this affair.
The first of these (No. V.) is in the handwriting of
Mayor Lyman, and was found among his papers.
The second (No. VI.) is
"
an article signed Abolition
ist," published in the Liberator, November, 1835.
It was written by Hon. Samuel E. Sewall, in reply
to a singularly scurrilous attack on the Mayor, in
the same paper. Mr. Sewall is well known as one
of the
"
Original Abolitionists," and his testimony is
because he was in the build
particularly important,
ing during the riot and assisted Garrison in his
is that of Mr.
escape. The third account (No. VII.)
Garrison himself. A few passages, which do not af-