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Mr. Charles B. Wells has this day informed me
that he wrote the paper to which this certificate is
attached.
I am personally well acquainted with Mr. "Wells ;
he has been in the service of the city over thirteen
years.
I know the paper to be written in his hand
writing, with which I am also acquainted.
SAMUEL F. McCLEARY, City Clerk.
BOSTON, February 14, 1848.
The foregoing testimony conclusively proves,
1. That Mr. Garrison went cheerfully, and of his
own free-will, to jail, as to a proper place of safety.
2. That, at one time, he was deeply grateful to
Mr. Lyman as the preserver of his life.
By what process of reasoning he brought himself
to believe that he was not frightened, and did not
wish to go to jail, and was not saved by the Mayor,
is unimportant. His friends will perhaps speak of
his conduct as a change of belief; I should be in
clined to express it by the more simple term,
ingratitude.
I have spoken of the matter of Mr. Phillips s
charges ; and it remains only to speak
manner.
of their
In his lecture of November 1st, the style of his
attack on the Mayor is his normal one, it might
be called his average every-day abuse. (No.
When brought suddenly to defend himself, his
I.)
old
legal instincts rise within him, and a certain un-