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No. VIII.
LETTER FROM MR. HENRY GUILD* TO THE EDITOR.
Having read the controversy in the papers be
tween yourself and Mr. Phillips, and having been an
eyewitness to the circumstances referred to, and a
convert to the Antislavery cause from that date, I
believe I can bear witness to your father s efforts to
subdue the mob and rescue Mr. Garrison.
. is My impression that the Riot Act was read under
the windows of the Antislavery rooms at ; any rate,
I recollect distinctly your father warning the mob to
disperse ;
this was before the seizure of Mr. Garri
son, who was taken from Wilson s Lane, with a rope
around his body (not around his neck, as has been
often stated), and carried up State Street, on the
north side, and down on the south side of the Old
State House ;
and it was on the way down, and near
the old pump that the police force, not more than
ten or fifteen men, made a raid upon the mob and
took him from them.
I could not say what part your father took in the
arrest of Mr. Garrison from the mob, but I was
informed, shortly after, that Mr. Garrison, in relating
his experience in a public meeting, stated that he
never was so glad to get into a jail in his life. I
think your father did all that lay in his power, with
a mere handful of men at his command ; and
although, as I said before, I am, and have been, an
Antislavery man, I am also a lover of justice.
* Manufacturing Jeweller, Winter Street.