CHAPTER XII.
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.
The results of the storm became immediately manifest in several ways.
Such a commotion did not leave things in precisely the state in which they were on the morning of the memorable day on which it struck the city.

The moral landscape and geography of the community had sensibly changed at its close.

The full extent of the alteration wrought could not at once be seen, nor was it at once felt.

But that there were deep and abiding changes made by it in the court of public opinion in Boston and Massachusetts on the subject of slavery there is little doubt.

It disgusted and alarmed many individuals who had hitherto acted in unison with the social, business, and political elements, which were at the bottom of the riot.