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It is also as fresh in my
man told me, the day after the riot,
mind that Sheriff Park-
that Garrison
made the same statement to him respecting my
conduct.
THEODORE LYMAN.
The following official paper will prove how accu
rate was the memory of Mr. Lyman.
No. XIV.
STATEMENT BY ASSISTANT-MARSHAL WELLS.
BOSTON, 1835.
I have deemed it expedient, for various reasons,
to make a record of the following facts :
A meeting of the Boston Female Antislavery
Society was notified to be held at the rooms of the
Massachusetts Antislavery Society, No. 46 Wash
ington Street, on the afternoon of October 21,
1835, at which time several addresses would be
made. In consequence of the strong prejudice ex
isting in the minds of the citizens of Boston against
the proceedings of the Abolitionists, especially those
of Mr. George Thompson, the Mayor of the city in
structed me to ascertain from the Antislavery office
if the said Thompson was to address the meeting,
or if he had left the city ;
at the same time to in
form them of the object of the inquiry, which was,
that if Thompson was to make an address, that the
Mayor might be provided with sufficient force to
quell the riot which would immediately ensue, or if
he had left the city, that he might state that fact.
On receiving these instructions, I immediately called