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relations among men were to be whirled hither and 

 thither as in a cyclone. Most of these addressers were 

 soon to be judged as Tories and condemned to outer 

 darkness. Those of us who remember the four years 

 following 1860, remember how lax men's memories 

 are of some things, how tenacious of others. So the 

 guns of Lexington and Bunker Hill soon left little of 

 Hutchinson's reputation standing, save that which the 

 last two years had brought him. The house at Milton 

 was used as barracks for soldiers ; the portrait of its 

 owner, now in the possession of the Massachusetts 

 Historical Society, was slashed and torn by bayonets ; 

 all his accessible property was confiscated, and his 

 best coach was sent over to Cambridge for the use of 

 General Washington. Even so late as 1774 a little 

 town in the highlands of Worcester County was incor- 

 porated under the name of Hutchinson, but two years 

 later, on its earnest petition, the legislature allowed it 

 to call itself after the eloquent Colonel Barre, who 

 had in Parliament so warmly defended the Americans. 

 Hutchinson Street in Boston, leading down to the 

 wharf which had witnessed the smashing of the tea- 

 chests, was rechristened as Pearl Street. Even the 

 school in Bennet Street lost the name of its founder, 

 and is known to-day as the Eliot school. 



No sooner had Hutchinson arrived at his hotel in 

 London, than Lord Dartmouth came for him and hur- 

 ried him off to an interview with the king, without 

 waiting for him to change his clothes. The conversa- 

 tion, as preserved in the diary, is interesting to read. 

 Neither king, minister, nor governor had the faintest 

 glimmer of prevision as to the course which events 

 were about to take. Hutchinson was right, however, 



