An edition of Boston, October 30, 1854 (1854)

Boston, October 30, 1854

Hon. Charles Allen, Sir--On my return home, after some days' absence, I have been shown a copy of the Boston daily advertiser of Friday last, containing an extract from the Worcester spy, purporting to be a sketch of a speech recently made by you. I am further informed that you applied the remarks to me by name. ... To the first statement I reply, I never subscribed a dollar to the fund to establish the Boston chronicle. ... The assertion that I was one of the body guards of Sims, or any other fugitive, on his return to slavery, I pronounce false ...

By Henry J. Gardner