. An historical account of the old State house of Pennsylvania now known as the Hall of independence. ourse of people, who wished him a good voyage, and, Thus, says a contemporary account, this important affair, inwhich there has been so glorious an exertion of public virtue andspirit, has been brought to a happy issue, by which the force of a law,so obstinately persisted in to the prejudice of the national commerce,for the sake of the principle upon which it is founded (a right of tax-ing the Americans without their consent), has been effectually broken,and the foundations of American liberty
. An historical account of the old State house of Pennsylvania now known as the Hall of independence. ourse of people, who wished him a good voyage, and, Thus, says a contemporary account, this important affair, inwhich there has been so glorious an exertion of public virtue andspirit, has been brought to a happy issue, by which the force of a law,so obstinately persisted in to the prejudice of the national commerce,for the sake of the principle upon which it is founded (a right of tax-ing the Americans without their consent), has been effectually broken,and the foundations of American liberty more deeply laid than ever. The repeal of the Tea Tax Act, unlike its predecessor, was not to bethus effected ; rigorous measures were determined upon by the rulingpowers of Great Britain. The enforced return by the Philadelphians of the detested tea, inrepudiation of the right of the Parliament to tax the colonists, did notafford the ministry a salient object of attack, but what passed in Bos-ton, the actual destruction of the tea, though done in a most orderly THE BOSTON PORT BILL AND UNION. U. manner, was declared by a majority in the English Parliament to bean overt act of high treason proceeding from, says no less a personthan Lord Mansfield, onr over lenity and want of foresight. Themother country must assert her authority, and as punishing all thecolonies at the same time seems to have been deemed inexpedient, thedevoted town of Boston was selected for chastisement, as an exampleto some, while to others the individual benefits sure to accrue to theirports from the mode selected would allure from the rapidly growingunion of the colonies. While Divide et impera became more obviously the axiom ofthe British Govern-ment, this only en-forced the views ofthe patriots through-out the country, andinduced its correla-tive Unite or Die — the watchwordlearned while actingon the defensiveagainst the Indianswhen unassisted bythe mother country. The early emblem, a dissevered rattl
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