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bly of their conduct, and not ascribe it to the worst
possible motives. In looking at the course which
they have pursued, we should be ever on the watch
not to be carried into false judgment by party feel
ings. While truth compels us to extenuate nothing
either in friend or foe, we should be equally careful
to
"
set down naught in malice."
BOSTON, Saturday, November 21, 1835.
No. VII.
AN ABOLITIONIST.
ACCOUNT BY MR. WILLIAM L. GARRISON,
TO BE FOUND IN MRS. STOWED "MEN OF OUR TIMES."
As the meeting was to commence at three o clock,
p. M., I went to the hall about twenty minutes before
that time. Perhaps
a hundred individuals had al
ready gathered around the street door and opposite
to the building, and their number was rapidly aug
menting. On ascending into the hall, I found about
fifteen or twenty ladies assembled, sitting with se
rene countenances, and a crowd of noisy intruders
(mostly young men) gazing upon them, through
whom I urged my way with considerable difficulty.
" That s Garrison," was the exclamation of some of
their number, as I quietly took my seat. Perceiv
I went
ing that they had no intention of retiring,
to them and calmly saicl,
"
Gentlemen, perhaps you
are not aware that this is a meeting of the Boston
Female Antislavery Society, called and intended
exclusively for ladies, and those only who have
been invited to address them. Understanding this