father; these gentlemen are a committee appointed by a
meeting assembled in front of the Patent Office. You
need not address remonstrances to them. Gentlemen, you
appreciate my position. I cannot surrender my rights.
Were I to die for it, I cannot surrender my rights! Tell
those who sent you hither that my press and my house are
undefended--they must do as they see proper. I maintain
my rights, and make no resistance!

The committee then retired, and Dr. Bailey reëntered his
dwelling. Meanwhile, the shouts of the mob, as they
received the reports of the committee, were reëchoed
along the streets. A fierce yell greeted the
reäppearance of Radcliff in front of the Patent Office.
He announced the result of the interview with the editor
of the _Era_. Shouts, imprecations, blasphemy, burst
from the crowd. "Down with the _Era_!" "Now for it!"
"Gut the office!" were the exclamations heard on all
sides, and the mob rushed tumultuously to
Seventh-street.

But a body of the city police had been stationed to guard the building,
and the mob finally contented themselves with passing a resolution to
pull it down the next day at ten o'clock, if the press was not meanwhile
removed.

That same afternoon, we three prisoners had been taken before three
justices, who held a court within the jail for our examination. Mr. Hall
appeared as our counsel. The examination was continued till the next
day, when we were, all three of us, recommitted to jail, on a charge of