The Other Side of the Declaration of Independence : a Lecture
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That this Kingdom has the sovereign* the supreme legis- lative power over America is granted. It can- not be denied. Taxation is a part of that sovereign power." The Stamp Act remained in force for a year only, and was then repealed in an effort to pacify the colonists, and a duty laid on tea and other imports, which they had always ad- mitted to be a valid act of Parliament. But the turbulent spirits were not to be satisfied so easily. They organized an immense boycott against British goods an...d commercial inter- course with England, and appointed vigilance committees in many communities to see that the boycott was rigidly enforced. In Decem- ber, 1773, three ships laden with tea— private property of an innocent corporation — arrived at Boston, and ou the i6th of that month — just one hundred and twenty-four years ago tonight — forty or fifty men, disguised as Mohawk Indians, under the direction of Sam. Adams, John Hancock and others, boarded the vessels, posted sentinels to keep Digitized by Google 26 ttbe Otbcx SiOe of all agents of authority at a distance, and flung the whole cargo, consisting of three hundred and forty-two chests, into the sea.
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