[194] Liberator, April 17, 1851.
[195] Daily Morning Chronicle, April 26, 1851.
[196] Liberator, April 17, 1851.
[198] Boston Journal, May 29, 1854.
[199] Personal statement of Mr. Elbridge Sprague, made to the writer. Col. T. W. Higginson suggests a few minor corrections in Mr. Sprague's narrative. The first person to step in was an unknown negro: the beam used was found in Court Square; none were prepared beforehand; there was but one box of axes.
[200] Boston Daily Advertiser, 1854, Worcester Spy, May 31, 1854, Argument of Mr. R. H. Dana.
[201] Liberator, Aug. 22, 1854.
[202] Von Holst, V. 64.