A history of the American nation . of a tumultuous and riotous rabble, who ought . .to follow their mercantile employments and not trouble them-selves with politics and government, which they do not under-stand. In this spirit Parliament passed the famous BostonPort Bill, closing the port of Boston until the tea was paid forand the town became compliant and obedient; Salem was madethe seat of government. The -second changed the charter ofMassachusetts in many important particulars, chiefly by extend-ing the power of the Crown; town meetings, except for electingofficers, could be held only by t
A history of the American nation . of a tumultuous and riotous rabble, who ought . .to follow their mercantile employments and not trouble them-selves with politics and government, which they do not under-stand. In this spirit Parliament passed the famous BostonPort Bill, closing the port of Boston until the tea was paid forand the town became compliant and obedient; Salem was madethe seat of government. The -second changed the charter ofMassachusetts in many important particulars, chiefly by extend-ing the power of the Crown; town meetings, except for electingofficers, could be held only by the governors permission. Thethird act provided that if any person were accused of murtheror other capital crime,, and if it were made to appear t^at CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION 149 * the fact was committed in the execution of his duty as a magis-trate, for the suppression of riots or in support of the laws, theaccused should be taken for trial to some place outside the col-ony. This seemed to the Americans to encourage officers in. >>TII11 iriSF. The Wise Men of Gotham and their Goose ihe boston port bill as pictured by a contemporary london car-TOONIST From the original in possession of I\Ir. R. T. H. Halsey, and copyrighted by the Grolier Club shooting down the people. A fourth bill provided for quarteringtroops in America. A fifth, called the Quebec Act, should injustice to England be disassociated from the other four, butthe colonists objected to it and classed it with the others; itestablished the old French law in Canada, sanctioned the 150 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION Catholic religion there, and extended the boundaries of theprovince westward and southward to the Mississippi and establishment of the despotic law of France, even in the oldFrench colony, was thought by the Americans to be a menaceto free institutions in all the colonies. The recognition ofRoman Catholicism, although in fact it was a reasonable act oftoleration, offended the Ne
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