They are plotting the destruction of our Government.” THEY AGITATE A QUESTION THAT MUST NOT BE TAMPERED WITH. Over the ensuing weeks, newspaper editors printed shrill editorials, denouncing Garrison, The Liberator, and all of his followers. Their resolutions would have pleased any southern plantation owner. In August, a massive meeting had been held in Faneuil Hall, organized and attended by Boston’s elite businessmen and politicians, to denounce the abolitionists and the notion of immediate emancipation. Over the past months, Bostonians had been growing increasingly furious with the abolitionists in their midst. Garrison and Burleigh had arrived early, hoping to avoid trouble in the street. A meeting of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society would be taking place there that afternoon.
They were headed for Stacy Hall, a small meeting space about the size of a schoolroom which adjoined the Liberator office at 46 Washington Street. It was hot that afternoon-unusually so for an autumn day in Boston. A friend and fellow member of the New England Anti-Slavery Society, 25-year old Charles C. On Octoat about 2 p.m., William Lloyd Garrison, the 30-year old editor of Boston’s antislavery newspaper The Liberator, made his way to a wooden building near the corner of Washington Street and Cornhill.
The site of The Liberator office in 1835 and the “Garrison mob.” The brick plaza was formerly a portion of Washington Street which extended to Dock Square and Faneuil Hall.
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