Not the strong arm of the mob, quoth these wiseacres, but the strong arm of the law it shall be.

And the strong arm of the law they forthwith determined to make it.
Massachusetts was hearkening with a sort of fascination to the song of the slave syren.

And no wonder.

For the song of the slave syren was swelling and clashing the while with passionate and imperious energy.
South Carolina had led off in this kind of music.

In December following the Boston mob Governor McDuffie, pitched the key of the Southern concert in his message to the legislature descriptive of anti-slavery publications, and denunciatory of the anti-slavery agitation.