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Holograph, signed with initials.Anne Warren Weston mentions a great fire at Wolf's Crag. She learned about the arrest of Anthony Burns from Mrs. Wendell Phillips. There are plans for a rescue. There was an eclipse of the sun. "Phebe Garnault was smoking glass & watching the sun...Wentworth Higginson and a number of men had come from Worcester." She mentions the the meetings of the Vigilance Committee. George Russell presided at the Faneuil Hall meeting. "Bird of Walpole, Swift, a young Free Soiler, Wendell & Parker spoke..." Higginson led an attack on the courthouse. She praises Wendell Phillips. Anne "talked about non-resistance" to Mary Robbins, Mrs. Phillips, and others. Warren Weston arrived, and Anne describes the state of his health. She sent messages to churches asking for prayers for Anthony Burns. She names the ministers who complied with her request. Jonas Perkins was among them. Anne writes: "Young Stiles held a tipping seance, but the oracles were rather misty." Anne went to town with W. Weston. It was rumored that the Boston merchants would buy Burns. Newport, RI, and Portsmouth sent troops. She went to town on the 30th of May and found much excitement, with "Everybody standing at their shop doors up & down Washington St., groups of people walking on the side walk...all hell seemed broke loose." A friend "scolded non-resistance & said she had fallen back on her brute instincts." The truck men threatened to mob Mr. & Mrs. Phillips. Theodore Parker tried to get the Phillips to...

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