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No. VI.
ARTICLE, BY HON. SAMUEL E. SEWALL, SIGNED "AN ABOLITION
IST," PUBLISHED IN THE LIBERATOR IN NOVEMBER, 1835.
MR. GARRISON :
CONDUCT OF THE MAYOR.
I read with deep feelings of pain and regret an
article in the last Liberator, signed
"
Hancock/ in
which the writer charges Mr. Lyman, the Mayor of
Boston, with being a co-operator with the mob in
this city of the 21st ult., and makes a show of
labored argument to substantiate his accusation.
I am neither the eulogist nor the apologist of
Mr. Lyman. But I believe that he was as sincerely
desirous of suppressing the riot as any man in the
city, and adopted such measures as seemed to him
calculated to effect the object. %
If he committed any errors on the occasion, it is
just that they should be pointed out, but with the
kindness and courtesy which are due to every man
who means to do his duty. To those who are dis
posed to judge harshly of his conduct in a new and
difficult emergency, I would say, Have you ever at
tempted to put down a mob yourselves ?
The writer of the piece referred to argues, in the
first place, that the Mayor was accessory to the mob,
from his previous conduct.
He says that the Mayor exerted all his private
personal influence for some time previous to Homer
and Palmer s call for the mob, to dissuade Abolition-
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