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found Garrison, and then greatly inflamed by having
had him taken out of their grasp. After careful
deliberation no suitable place could be thought of
but the jail. Sheriff Parkman, who was present,
said that he would commit him as a rioter. The
usual law paper was made out, and Garrison agreed
to go to jail on the condition (as
I was informed by
Parkman) that he should not be subject to any ex
pense.
A carriage was procured, and, after a prodi
gious deal of resistance on the part of the mob, he
was placed in it ; and, after a second severe strug
gle, the carriage
was driven off. The hackman
luckily had good horses, and had good courage
himself, for in the course of a hundred yards or so
he got his horses into a gallop, and then, instead of
going towards the bridge bridge.
jail, he drove towards Cam
The mob (or a part of it) followed
the carriage, but the manoeuvre of the hackman dis
tracted them, and a large portion stopped in Bow-
doin Square.
Running the greater part of the way, I reached
the jail before the carriage, which, however, soon
came up, but not before between two and three
hundred persons had assembled there. But a line
was made to the jail by officers, and, on the door
being opened, Garrison seemed to bound from the
carriage to the jail door with a single leap. Mob
about the jail then dispersed.
I went to my office and took all the precautions
in my power for the quiet of the town during the
night, having all the watch on the alert, and having
officers placed in the neighborhood of Garrison s