the burning of the Hall, the State
Anti-Slavery Society, pursuant to adjournment, met at the ruins of the
Hall, and, amidst the smoking walls, and with the mob lingering about
them, they proceeded to their business--Abraham L. Pennock, the Vice
President of the Society, presiding. The editor of the Pennsylvania
Freeman, John G. Whittier, whose publication office and papers had been
destroyed by the mob, in his next paper published the following
editorial article, which I have copied simply to show that while the
abolitionists on this occasion maintained their sentiments in a clear
and unequivocal manner, they did not indulge in the language of revenge
or anger.

"We perhaps need offer no apology to our distant readers, for
the want of variety in our present number. Ours must be this
week a record of violence--a story of persecution and outrage.
We hardly dare trust ourselves to speak upon this matter. It is
our desire to do so, if at all, in a tone of calmness,--to hold
ourselves aloof, as far as possible, from the present
excitement,--to utter our abiding testimony, now dearer than
ever to our hearts, not in the language of passion, but firmly
and decidedly.

"Our readers will gather from the statements made in the
different extracts in our paper, and especially from the Address
of the Executive Committee of the State Anti-Slavery Society,
the leading facts of the outrage. Of the course pursued by the
civil authorities, we leave the community to judge. Our own
reliance for protection has been upon that Providence whose
mercy is over all,--in the justice of our cause, and in our
conscious innocence of heart and integrity of purpose. We
rejoice, and in so doing, the abolitionists of Pennsylvania
unite with us, that human life was not sacrificed in defence of
our Hall, our persons, and our property. We know, indeed, that
had the attack been made upon the United States Bank, or any
similar institution in this city, the civil authorities would
have met its fury, not as now, with a speech only, but with
loaded firelocks and fixed bayonets. We know, it is true, that
the mob were in a great measure left free to work their
mischievous will upon us. But if those in authority have, _upon
their own principles_, treated us with neglect in the hour of
our peril, upon them let the responsibility rest. We have thus