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The big leaders were
appealed to to call him off, but Costell declined to interfere.
"He wouldn't stop anyway," he told Green, "so we should do no good. Let
them fight it out by themselves." Both of which sentences showed that
Mr. Costell understood his business.
Peter had challenged his opponents to a joint debate, and when that was
declined by them, he hired halls for evenings and spoke on the subject.
He argued well, with much more feeling than he had shown since his
speech in "the case." After the first attempt of this kind, he had no
difficulty in filling his halls. The rumor came back to his own district
that he was "talkin' foin," and many of his friends there turned out to
hear him. The same news went through other wards of the city and drew
men from them. People were actually excluded, for want of room, and
therefore every one became anxious to hear his speeches. Finally, by
subscription of a number of people who had become interested, headed by
Mr. Pell, the Cooper Union was hired, and Peter made a really great
speech to nearly three thousand people.


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