New-England legends . , books, pic-tures, in the centre of the several rooms, anddeliberately set fire to every heap, thi-ew inthe altar vestments, the Bible and the cross,and, the act of virtue consummated, left thebuUding in flames. .After this, the bishopslodge experienced a similar fate, the farm-Louse belonging to the institute followed, andthe grand demonstration of proper religioussentiment wound up with tearing open thetomb of the place, pillaging the sacred vesselsthere, stealing the coffin-plates, and scatteringthe ashes of the dead to the four winds. l?ot a hand was lifted to stay t
New-England legends . , books, pic-tures, in the centre of the several rooms, anddeliberately set fire to every heap, thi-ew inthe altar vestments, the Bible and the cross,and, the act of virtue consummated, left thebuUding in flames. .After this, the bishopslodge experienced a similar fate, the farm-Louse belonging to the institute followed, andthe grand demonstration of proper religioussentiment wound up with tearing open thetomb of the place, pillaging the sacred vesselsthere, stealing the coffin-plates, and scatteringthe ashes of the dead to the four winds. l?ot a hand was lifted to stay tliese abominar-ble proceedings, by any one of the vast multi-tude outside 5 the firemen, who declared fre-quently that they could prevent the flames ifallowed, were liindered from acting—althoughtheir sincerity may be suspected from the factthat an engine returned to Boston decked withthe flowers ;tolen from the altar; the magis-trates neither made any re nonstrance, norread the riot-act, nor demanded help of neigh-. LEGEND OF OF THE UKSULINB CONVENT OF MT. BENEDICT. boring towns, nor asiied for the services of themarines at the Kavy Yard, nor made a singlearrest during all the seven hours of the though the outside multitude, who tookno part in the crime, were all Protestants, notone of them dared to protest against this out-rage, not only upon weakness and detenseless-ness, but upon civil liberty, and all remainedparalyzed until the end, doubtful perhaps ifthere were enough disapprovers among themto be of any avail, and entirely forgetful that astream from a single engine-hose would havedispersed the whole mob more quickly than abattery could have done. Meanwhile the nuns, escaping with difficulty,and with yet greater difficulty supporting theyoung consumptive, Sister Mary St. Henry, andgetting her across the fence at the gardensfoot, had found a kindly shelter, and wereshortly afterward invited by old General Dear-born to his seat in Eoxburj, cal
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