. The first American Civil War, first period 1775-1778, with chapters on the continental or revolutionary army and on the forces of the crown . ttempt to interfere with the Boston agitators, eitherin the Press or at public meetings, was ever followedup. In Faneuil Hall, in August 1774, took placea meeting which, both in language and objective, isprobably among the most seditious meetings ever heldopenly in any ordered community. The meeting wasnot, it is true, called after public announcement, but,as it was constituted of delegates from outlying town-ships, counties, and districts, the fact of
. The first American Civil War, first period 1775-1778, with chapters on the continental or revolutionary army and on the forces of the crown . ttempt to interfere with the Boston agitators, eitherin the Press or at public meetings, was ever followedup. In Faneuil Hall, in August 1774, took placea meeting which, both in language and objective, isprobably among the most seditious meetings ever heldopenly in any ordered community. The meeting wasnot, it is true, called after public announcement, but,as it was constituted of delegates from outlying town-ships, counties, and districts, the fact of such a meetingwas well known to every one in Boston. At this meet-ing it was resolved that every executive officer ofadministrative justice, from the Chief-Justice down-wards, and that all Courts of Assize and of Recordheld under their authority, should be opposed andhampered in the performance of duty ; that all officialswho should still observe their obligations to the King,should be deemed traitors ; that all such malignantofficials should be boycotted or treated as outlaws ; andthat measures for armed resistance to the British power. Samukl Adams, aetat the Engraving; by H. B. Hall, after J. S. Copley. THE STORM CENTRE, BOSTON 93 should be at once organised and put in practice. Theseresolutions were arrived at in a building not far fromthe seat of the Provincial Government, and practicallyunder the nose of the newly appointed Royal Governorand Commander-in-Chief, General Thomas Gage,recently arrived from New York to undertake a workwhich had by this time passed beyond his powers ofachievement, unless, indeed, he were armed with sum-mary jurisdiction, backed by a force large enough toenforce his decisions, and were sustained by the firmattitude of the British Ministry. There was at this time in Boston, a family of which Theit has become the fashion in later years in America to ^^^™^speak as men used to speak in times past of the ^^^Protestant Reformers, of which f
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