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For Frederick Douglass' Paper.
FROM OUR BOSTON CORRESPONDENT.
The Personal Liberty Law—Indignation Meeting in Boston in relation to the infamous outrage on Hon. Charles Sumner.
BOSTON, May 16, 1856.
Our city is all excitement. On Wednesday, Mr. Charles Hale offered an amendment, which passed the House to a third reading, by a vote of 144 to 124, repealing the Personal Liberty Law of last year. It has been especially assigned for Tuesday at twelve o'clock, to be passed to be engrossed. It will come up in the Senate some time during the week. While this pale deed, committed by the Know Nothings in general, and the Whigs in particular, has produced the most unwonted excitement; and whilst it is still fresh in our minds, we have news from Washington that a most cowardly and bloody outrage has been committed on the person of our Honorable and beloved Senator CHARLES SUMNER. Our city is now one great fountain of public indignation, surpassing everything I ever saw before. Friday morning's papers gave us the telegraphic announcement of the assault. In the evening papers of the same day, it was announced that a primary meeting would be held the same evening at Chapman Hall, to consider the propriety of calling a mass meeting of the citizens. At the hour appointment for the meeting, the Hall was densely packed in every part, and all the Avenues leading to it and hundreds were obliged to return home. It was then found to be impossible to accommodate even a small part of those who desired to be present, and the meeting adjourned to Tremout Temple. In fifteen minutes, four thousand persons were crammed and jammed together. The meeting was organized by the appointment of Samuel Greele, Esq., as Chairman. The meeting was addressed by Mr. Greele, Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Wendell Phillips, Esq., Mr. J.M.S. Williams, Rev. Theodore Parker, Mr. John L. Swift, Rev. Lyman Beecher, and Mr. Win. B. Spooner, and was one of the most intense enthusiasm. The meeting adjourned at ten o'clock, to meet again on Saturday evening at Faneuil Hall. On Saturday evening the meeting convened pursuant to adjournment. The Hall was densely packed, in every part, and several thousands must have
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