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In Boston, Julien Hall owner prohibits use by abolitionists due to opposition to British agitator George Thompson. The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society postpones its annual meeting amid threats and crowds. Thompson attempts a private lecture but is thwarted, and he is reportedly bound over to keep the peace.
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From the Boston Gazette.
The following notice appeared in the Daily Advertiser of yesterday:
The Boston Female Anti Slavery Society have been informed that the proprietor and lessee of Congress Hall, forbid that the annual meeting of said society should be holden at that place, under the apprehension that the building is endangered by the determined resolution of men of property and standing, to put a stop to the meeting, let the consequences be what they may.
They therefore notify the members and the public generally, that the meeting will not take place on the anniversary of the formation of the society, as was at first proposed, and has hitherto been their practice, but will be postponed until further notice.
By order of the Board,
Mary S. Parker, President.
Is it not altogether too bad that our peaceable city should be kept in a state of excitement and commotion by such a foreign vagabond as Geo. Thompson? Yesterday upon a mere rumor that he was to lecture before the Female Anti-slavery Society, that part of Washington street in the neighborhood of Amory Hall was filled with a crowd of people waiting his arrival. What their intentions were we have no means of knowing, but thought we could read judge Lynch quite strongly depicted in most of their countenances.
Verily, "the curse never fell upon our nation until now." After having been forbidden the use of Julien Hall, it was publicly announced in one of the morning papers that the lecture would be postponed to another opportunity, and yet the impudent scoundrel privately engaged Ritchie Hall for the same afternoon, and at 4 o'clock, about forty women were collected in that room, over Mr. Callender's store, to listen to an address from him.
But to the credit of our citizens he was not permitted to hold forth, and his weak and deluded followers retired to their respective homes. Mr. Thompson was nowhere to be found.
It was reported last evening that, on complaint of the mayor, Thompson had been bound over to keep the peace. This perhaps is the best disposition that can be made of the scoundrel by the city authorities; but the "citizens generally" would like to use him up in some other way.
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Opposition to British abolitionist George Thompson leads to prohibition of hall use by the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society; meeting postponed amid threats from crowds and men of property; Thompson's private lecture disrupted.