Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . e modern journal the columns of the presswere given over, — after the news and adver-tisements had been inserted, — to letters signedby such pseudonyms as A Chatterer, Vin-dex, Philantrop and so on. Adams con-tributed constantly to the Boston Gazette, whosebold proprietors, Edes and Gill, made theirsheet the voice of the patriot sentiment andgave their office to be a rallying point for thepopular leaders. Vindex is a favorite sig-nature of Adams about this time. The follow-ing letter, prepared for the annive
Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . e modern journal the columns of the presswere given over, — after the news and adver-tisements had been inserted, — to letters signedby such pseudonyms as A Chatterer, Vin-dex, Philantrop and so on. Adams con-tributed constantly to the Boston Gazette, whosebold proprietors, Edes and Gill, made theirsheet the voice of the patriot sentiment andgave their office to be a rallying point for thepopular leaders. Vindex is a favorite sig-nature of Adams about this time. The follow-ing letter, prepared for the anniversary of therepeal of the Stamp Act and printed in theProvidence Gazette as well as in the publicationof Edes and Gill, shows that Adams made nomistake in using his pen as a weapon: OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 13 When I consider the corruption of GreatBritain, their load of debt, — their intestinedivisions, tumults and riots, — their scarcityof provisions and the contempt in which theyare held by the nations about them; and whenI consider, on the other hand, the State of the. THE LIBERTY TREE American Colonies with Regard to the variousClimates, Soils, Produce, rapid Population,joined to the virtue of the Inhabitants, — Icannot but think that the Conduct of Old Eng-land towards us may be permitted by DivineWisdom, and ordained by the unsearchableprovidence of the Almighty for hastening aperiod dreadful to Great Britain. A Son of Liberty. 14 OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS How inevitable it was that Adams shouldclash with Hutchinson we can easily see byplacing alongside this extract a passage froma letter written not long after this, by the gov-ernor to a kinsman in Dubhn, and pointing outthat the supreme absolute legislative powermust remain in England. So, in the deepeningstrife, the Defender of Prerogative and the Manof the Town Meeting confront one another. CHAPTER II THE CHALLENGE TO THE CROWN SHIPS of war, some little time before this,had cast anchor in the harbor, and tworegi
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