Neither was the anxiety of devoted friends and followers to be lightly disregarded.

All of which detained the leader in Brooklyn until the 25th of the month, when the danger signals seemed to have disappeared.

Whereupon he set out immediately for his post in Boston to be at the head of his forces.

He found the city in one of those strange pauses of popular excitement, which might signify the ebb of the tide or only the retreat of the billows.

He was not inclined to let the anti-Abolition agitation subside so soon, before it had carried on its flood Abolition principles to wider fields and more abundant harvests in the republic.