Anti-Imperialism and Liberty by M. Patrick Cullinane

Attendees to the Faneuil Hall Meeting

June 15, 1898

The meeting was organized by Gamaliel Bradford and instigated by his "Call for Help," an article published in the Evening Transcript. Initially, the meeting was seen as somewhat unpatriotic because the Spanish-American War remained in full swing. It was postponed once to avoid any such public relations nightmare. It went ahead thanks largely to Bradford's persistence. Moorfield Storey was the keynote speaker and Charles Gordon Ames and George McNeill also provided speeches. The meeting created the Committee of Correspondence which would instigate great growth in the movement. (Speeches at Faneuil Hall, June 15, 1898)

Francis Ellingwood Abbot