Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . lONT STREET SOUTH OF SCHOOL STREET ABOUT DOROTHEA LYNDE DIX. MRS. WILLIAM LLOYD CiARHISON. From a (la!nci<^ot!ipc takm in ISoS. pmm a dagucrrcofi/pe taken about 22T. Page 122. IN OLD BOSTON 117 the mayor urged the ladies to retire, saying thatit might not be in his power, with his smallforce, to protect them long. This they did,the police making a passage for them throughthe jeering crowd outside. Francis Jacksonimmediately invited them to conclude theirmeeting at his home o
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . lONT STREET SOUTH OF SCHOOL STREET ABOUT DOROTHEA LYNDE DIX. MRS. WILLIAM LLOYD CiARHISON. From a (la!nci<^ot!ipc takm in ISoS. pmm a dagucrrcofi/pe taken about 22T. Page 122. IN OLD BOSTON 117 the mayor urged the ladies to retire, saying thatit might not be in his power, with his smallforce, to protect them long. This they did,the police making a passage for them throughthe jeering crowd outside. Francis Jacksonimmediately invited them to conclude theirmeeting at his home on Hollis Street. Hewas determined that there should be freespeech in Boston at whatever peril. But whenHollis Street was reached it was found thatMrs. Jackson was ill, so the meeting finishedits business at the home of Mrs. Maria WestonChapman, at No. 11 West Street. It was who, earlier in the afternoon, hadreplied, — when Mayor Lyman had been urgingthat it was dangerous for the ladies to remainin their hall, — If this is the last bulwark offreedom, we may as well die here as almost two weeks after this affair Gar
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