Francis Jackson, for instance, had been one of the fifteen hundred signers of the call for the great Faneuil Hall meeting of the 21st of August.

But on the afternoon of the 21st of October he threw his house open to the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, after its meeting had been broken up by the mob.

It seemed to him then that it was no longer a mere struggle for the freedom of the slave, but for the right of free speech and free discussion as well.

Dr.Henry I.Bowditch, a young man, in 1835, eminent professor and physician subsequently, dates from that afternoon of mob violence his conversion to Abolitionism.

In that selfsame hour seeds of resistance to slavery were sown in two minds of the first order in the city and State.