CHAPTER XLVI.
NEGRO HATRED AT THE NORTH.
The prompt manner in which colored men in the
North had enlisted in the army to aid in putting down
the Rebellion, and the heroism and loyalty of the slaves
of the South in helping to save the Union, so exasperated
the disloyal people in the Northern States, that
they early began a system of cowardly warfare against
the blacks wherever they found them. The mob spirit
first manifested itself at a meeting held in Boston, December
3, 1860, to observe the anniversary of the death
of John Brown. A combination of North End roughs
and Beacon Street aristocrats took possession of the
Tremont Temple, the place of holding the meeting,
appointed Richard S. Fay as Chairman, and passed a
series of resolutions in favor of the slave-holders of the
South, and condemnatory of the abolitionists.
This success induced these enemies of free discussion to attempt to break up the meeting of the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society at Music Hall the following Sunday, at which Frederick Douglass was the speaker. Wendell Phillips addressed the same society at the same place, on the 19th following, when the mob
