. Life and correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch . treet, near the old Marlborough Hotel,which stood nearly opposite the head of Franklin Street. Although deeply influenced by the events mentioned inthe last chapter, he was not one to neglect the duties ofthe hour, and began his new life with enthusiasm. Stir-ring events, moreover, destined to influence his wholeafter life, were then taking place in Boston. Garrison was uttering his tremendous denunciations ofslavery, and the first results of the great anti-slaverymovement in Massachusetts were beginning to showthemselves. Not long after
. Life and correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch . treet, near the old Marlborough Hotel,which stood nearly opposite the head of Franklin Street. Although deeply influenced by the events mentioned inthe last chapter, he was not one to neglect the duties ofthe hour, and began his new life with enthusiasm. Stir-ring events, moreover, destined to influence his wholeafter life, were then taking place in Boston. Garrison was uttering his tremendous denunciations ofslavery, and the first results of the great anti-slaverymovement in Massachusetts were beginning to showthemselves. Not long after his return he witnessed the famous so-called broadcloth mob, composed of many well-knowncitizens, who endeavored to prevent Garrison from speak-ing against slavery. My fathers indignation and subse-quent action are best described in his own words, takenfrom a series of papers written many years later at therequest of, and dedicated to, a warm family friend, Vernon Briggs, and entitled The Thirty Years Warof 1 Volume x., chapter THE GARRISON MOB — CORRESPONDENCE 99 I returned from European study of medicineand of freedom, which I had imbibed under Louisand also at the audience chamber of Jouffroy. Sodesirous was I of being free, that for a time I declinedto join the Massachusetts Medical Society for fear ofbeing bound by any pledges which I might wantto disregard; but I soon found that I was carryingthe principle too far, and really losing good influencesof interchange of thought with honorable peers. Ibegan my profession at a time not remote from thatat which Miss Crandall1 had been maltreated by theNorthern pro-slavery mob. I have little memory ofit save as detailed in the papers of the day while Iwas absent. I needed a blow nearer my own hometo arouse in me a hatred of slavery that would bearfruit by its influence on my heart, compelling me toact. That blow came in this wise: On the after-noon of October 21, 1835, having finished most ofmy professio
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