He had come up to the city from Providence the night before, in quest of his sister and her husband.

Not finding them, he turned to the cause which had been so ruthlessly attacked, and this is the sort of care which he bestowed upon it.

He got Burleigh to write a general relation of the mob for publication in the _Liberator_, and Whittier to indite another, with an appeal to the public, the same to be published immediately, and of which he ordered three thousand copies for himself.
"I further ordered," he writes, "one thousand copies of A.Grimke's letter, with your introductory remarks, and your address published in the _Liberator_ several weeks since, with your name appended, and Whittier's poetry on the times, in a pamphlet form.

I urged all our friends to redouble their exertions.

They seemed well disposed to accept the advice, as nothing will now avail but thorough measures.