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It furnishes not the leaders but the mass of mobs ; and it springs up at times of crisis from Heaven knows where . You might have driven through all the streets of Canaan , a week before the trial , and have seen four or five such fellows ; but from the day of its beginning the Square was full of them , dingy shuttlecocks batted up into view by the Tocsin . They kept the air whirring with their noise . The news of that sitting which had caused the Squire , Flitcroft , and Peter Bradbury to risk the Court 's displeasure , was greeted outside with loud and vehement disfavor ; and when , at noon , the jurymen were marshalled out to cross the yard to the `` National House '' for dinner , a large crowd followed and surrounded them , until they reached the doors of the hotel . `` Do n't let Lawyer Louden bamboozle you ! '' `` Hang him ! '' `` Tar and feathers fer ye ef ye do n't hang him ! ''