in his cellar and now they are coming hither wild as so many flee lieutenant governor for your life for your life father dear father make haste shrieked his children but would not to them he was an old lawyer and he could not realize that the people would do any thing so utterly lawless as to assault him in his peaceful home he was one of king george s chief officers and it would be an insult and outrage upon the king himself if the lieutenant governor should suffer any wrong have no fears on my account said he i am perfectly safe the king s name shall be my protection yet he bade his family retire into one of the neighboring houses his daughter would have remained but he forced her away the and uproar of the mob were now heard close at hand the sound was by ic s terrible and struck with the same sort of dread as if an enraged wild beast had broken loose and were roaring for its prey he crept softly to the window there he beheld an immense of people filling all the street and rolling onward to his house it was like a flood that had swelled beyond its bounds would sweep every thing before it trembled he felt at that moment that the wrath of the people was a thousand fold more terrible than the wrath of a king that was a moment when a and an like might have learned how powerless are kings and great men when the low and humble range themselves against them king george could do nothing for his servant now had king george there he could have done nothing for himself if had understood this lesson and remembered it he need not in after years have been an exile from his native country nor finally have laid his bones in a distant land there was now a rush against the doors of the house the people sent up a hoarse cry at this instant the lieutenant governor s daughter whom he had supposed to be in a place of safety ran into the room and threw her arms around him she had returned by a private entrance father are you mad cried she will the by ic s king s name protect you now come with me or they will have your life true muttered to himself what care these for the name of king i must flee or they will me down on the door of my own dwelling hurrying away he and his daughter made their escape by the private passage at the moment when the broke into the house the foremost of them rushed up the staircase and entered the room which had just quitted there they beheld our good old chair facing them with quiet dignity while the lion s head seemed to move its jaws in the unsteady light of their perhaps the stately aspect of our venerable friend which had stood firm through a century and a half of trouble arrested them for an instant but they were thrust forward by those behind and the chair lay then began the work of destruction the carved and polished mahogany tables were shattered with heavy clubs and to with the marble and were broken the volumes of s library so precious to a man were torn out of their covers and the leaves sent flying out of the windows containing secrets of our country s history which are now lost for ever were scattered to the winds by s chair the old portraits whose fixed looked down on the wild scene were rent from the walls the mob in their and destruction as if these pictures of s forefathers had committed the same as their a tall looking glass which had hitherto presented a of the enraged and drunken multitude was now smashed into a thousand we gladly dismiss the scene from the mirror of oar fancy before morning dawned the walls of the house were all that remained the interior was b dismal scene of ruin a shower in at the windows and when and his family returned they stood shivering in the room where the last evening had seen them so peaceful and happy grandfather said indignantly if the people acted in this manner they were not of even so much liberty as the king of england was willing to allow them it was a most act like many other popular movements at that time replied grandfather but we must not decide against the justice of the people s cause merely because an excited mob was guilty of outrageous violence besides all these things were done in the first fury of resentment afterwards the by ic s h ib sl people grew more calm and were more by the counsel of those wise and good men who conducted them safely and through the revolution little with tears in her blue eyes said that she hoped the neighbors had not let tenant governor and his family be in the street but had taken them into their houses and been kind to them the perilous situation of our beloved chair inquired what had become of it nothing was heard of our chair for some time afterwards answered grandfather om day in september the same of whom i before told you was summoned to appear at high noon under liberty tree was the strangest that had ever heard of for it wa issued in the name of th whole people who thus took upon the authority of a sovereign power mr dared not accordingly at the appointed hour he went much against his will to liberty tree here interposed a remark that poor mr found but little liberty under liberty tree grandfather assented it was a stormy day continued he the gale blew violently and scattered the yellow leaves of liberty tree all along the street mr s wig was 