about ten o'clock
Those competent citizens were as close mouthed as ever . But it was understood that no nonsense was to be permitted , and that this annoying question must be settled at once and fully . As one man expressed it : `` We 'll have these fellows caterwauling all over the place if we do n't shut down on them right sharp off quick . '' Taylor arrived about ten o'clock and proceeded briskly to the pork barrel that had been rolled out to serve as a pulpit . He faced a lowering , hostile mob . `` Gentlemen , '' said he , `` if some means of communication existed by which the United States could this morning know that street preaching was to be attempted in the streets of San Francisco , the morning papers , badly informed as to the temper and disposition of the people of this new country , would feel themselves fully justified in predicting riot , if not actual bloodshed . Furthermore , I do not doubt that the greater dailies would hold their forms open to report the tragedy when news of it should come in .