. An historical account of the old State house of Pennsylvania now known as the Hall of independence. c:^ /^/cr-%,eir(i>tfr, ^7^ {^ ^^^^ A w^. THE PHILADELPHIA TEA PARTY. 67 the Americans themselves to import, or even to receive the tea onboard the ships belonging to American ports. Tliis caused an immenseaccumulation in the warehouses of the East India Company in collusion with the ministry, the latter set about chartering vesselsthemselves, having determined, in the language of the day, to cramthe tea down the tliroats of the colonists. These vessels were to beconsigned to diffe
. An historical account of the old State house of Pennsylvania now known as the Hall of independence. c:^ /^/cr-%,eir(i>tfr, ^7^ {^ ^^^^ A w^. THE PHILADELPHIA TEA PARTY. 67 the Americans themselves to import, or even to receive the tea onboard the ships belonging to American ports. Tliis caused an immenseaccumulation in the warehouses of the East India Company in collusion with the ministry, the latter set about chartering vesselsthemselves, having determined, in the language of the day, to cramthe tea down the tliroats of the colonists. These vessels were to beconsigned to different parties in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, andCluuleston. News of this fact reaching Philadelphia at the end of September,gave rise to an unprecedented commotion among the inhabitants, and]iossibly to the now well-known expression of • a tempest in a tea pot,for to such base uses may the most solemn events be Philadelphia papers teem with addresses to the Commissionersand to the public. Probably the most able is from Scffivola, in the Pennsylvania Chronicle, of the 11th October. The Boston paperstook up the refrain,
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