It received significant illustration also in Garrison's nomination to the legislature.

In this way did between seventy and eighty citizens testify their sympathy for him and their reprobation of mob rule.

In yet another way was its influence felt, and this was in the renewed zeal and activity which it instantly produced on the part of the Abolitionists themselves.

It operated upon the movement as a powerful stimulus to fresh sacrifices and unwearied exertions.

George W.Benson, Garrison's brother-in-law, led off bravely in this respect, as the following extract from a letter written by him in Boston, two days after the riot, to Garrison, at Brooklyn, well illustrates.