. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . e next year came the Boston Port Bill, receivedwith public mourning in the other colonies, and with grim en-durance by the Bostonians. A thriving commercial city sud-denly found itself unable to receive any vessel whose cargo hadnot been first landed at a port then thirty miles away by road—Marblehead—or to discharge any except through a custom-house at Plymouth, then forty miles by road in the other direc-tion. All the industries of the place were stopped, and theprice of fuel and provisio
. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . e next year came the Boston Port Bill, receivedwith public mourning in the other colonies, and with grim en-durance by the Bostonians. A thriving commercial city sud-denly found itself unable to receive any vessel whose cargo hadnot been first landed at a port then thirty miles away by road—Marblehead—or to discharge any except through a custom-house at Plymouth, then forty miles by road in the other direc-tion. All the industries of the place were stopped, and theprice of fuel and provisions rose one-third; for every stick ofwood and every barrel of molasses had to be landed first on thewharf at Marblehead, and then laboriously reshipped to Boston,or be sent on the long road by land. But as tyranny usuallyreacts upon itself, the voluntary contributions which came fromall parts of the colonies to the suffering city did more to cementa common feeling than years of prosperity could have this chafed and oppressed position the people of Boston 230 HISTORY OF THE UNITED THE BOSTON MASSACRE. awaited events, and the country looked on. Meanwhile the firstContinental Congress had met at Philadelphia, September 5,1774, with a sole view to procuring a redress of grievances, thepeople of every colony pledging themselves in one form oranother to abide by the decision of this body. In July of that THE BRITISH YOKE. 2\\ year, long before the thought of separation took shape even inthe minds of the leaders, Ezra Stiles wrote this prophecy: Ifoppression proceeds, despotism may originate an AmericanMagna Charta and Bill of Rights, supported by such intrepidand persevering importunity as even sovereignty may hereafterjudge it not wise to withstand. There will be a Runnymedein America. Such was the change from 1640 to 1774; themother-country which to Hooke signified paradise, to Stiles sig-nified oppression; the one clergyman wrote to deprecate war inEngland, th
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