A Retrospect of the Boston Tea Party With a Memoir of George R T Hewes a Sur
A Retrospect of the Boston Tea Party With a Memoir of George R T Hewes a Sur
James Hawkes
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The 156 THE BOSTON TEA-PARTY. arrival of other cargoes of tea soon after, increased the agitation of the public mind, already wrought up to a degree of desperation, and ready to break out into acts of violence, on every trivial occasion of offence. Things thus appeared to be hastening to a disastrous issue. The people from the country arrived in great numbers, the inhabitants of the town assembled. This assembly which was on the 16th of December, 1773, was the most numerous ever known, there be...ing more than 2000 from the country present. Finding no measures were likely to be taken, either by the governor, or the commanders, or owners of the ships, to return their cargoes or prevent the landing of them, at 5 o'clock a vote was called for the dissolution of the meeting and obtained. But some of the more moderate and judicious members, fearing what might be the consequences, asked for a reconsideration of the vote, offering no other reason, than that they ought to do every thing in their power to send the tea back, according to their previous resolves.
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