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Riot In Boston

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
November
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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They liad a regular row reccntly in Faneuil Hall, conneeted with a proposeii leetuie of .Mr. Gough,on Teinperance. - The Ematicipator has a history of the aflair, from whiuh we cut the following : " Ry this time the Hall w.is filled to overflowing, and thousrmds n ihe slreet were pressing hard for admittance. Tlie fever oflhe ruinmies r.-iged higher ihan ver. Tliey now attempted lo take posse.ssion ofthe platform, but were repulseil by a strong anabá Liberty man from ihe country. Soon, however, a general melee ersued. D.m. Graní miglit have] been seen, "on ihe wings of the wind," and anón at his post g;in, calling tor 'order' - 'order1 and battling valiantly for the 'public good.' His tab!e and chair were broken in pieces and hurled in various directions. The températe and intemperale wereengaged in mortal conflict - some knocked down and lyingupon the floor, others using their canes 10 good (Tect. Mr. Gough was struck over the liead with the remaina of a chair - otherl teinpe'-ance men were somewhat njured. Twice, the rummies took forcible posses5Í"n of the platform, and ere as furcfbly driven from it. Amidst nll this confusión - ibe screcchng ofthe wortifn and the hurrahs ofthe contending parties, one voice wns heard nbove the rest. It was the voice of a strong man ho rushed upon tlie plaiform for the defence of üeacon Grant and his ns'iocirteand who might have been seen, enne in hand, in the hottest of the conflicI,enHeavoring 'to conquer a peace.' Notice liowever hnd been given to the Citv Marshal, who soon made his appparnnce with a full force of arm d pólice men. amid the loud cheering ofthe vasi multilude. As a matter of course, the rioters were almost jnstnntly subdned, nnd the conention pi'oceeded to business." Mr. Gougli thu-i Inving a largo body of the rumsellers and their fricniis as it were at his mercy, gave them a mot thorough and eflective discourse. Many of them listened to a Temperance lecture for the fiis: time iti iheir lives. (t? The Emancipator sa) s of the Buffalo Convemion: "Considering therefore thatihe Convention was held in Western New York, in the midst of Mr. Smith's neghbors and friends, - that Mr. Sniith was present to advocate bis cause wnh his peculiar and winning eloquence, atid thal the opposingcandidnte was a stranger to r. large majority of the members ofthe Convenlion, and had but recently, as it were, adopted the views of the Liberty party, the final vote may be considered a most decisiva expression of the Convention, and of the party, as represented by the delegates, that nu immediate change should be made that no new tests should, at present, at least- be incorporated into the constitution of the Liberty party."

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News