. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. longing for a consti-tutional redress for grievances, thecolonists threw upon the fatedplant of Indias shore not only all their spite,but all their hopes for reconciliation. In that long and bitter decade of controversy,whose culmination was the American Kevolution,a single prosaic article played an important the calmer view of later years the hatedtea injected into the discussion of the day boreno real relation to any merit in the contest. Yetit was tea which, as a modem writer says, wasthe political intoxicant
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. longing for a consti-tutional redress for grievances, thecolonists threw upon the fatedplant of Indias shore not only all their spite,but all their hopes for reconciliation. In that long and bitter decade of controversy,whose culmination was the American Kevolution,a single prosaic article played an important the calmer view of later years the hatedtea injected into the discussion of the day boreno real relation to any merit in the contest. Yetit was tea which, as a modem writer says, wasthe political intoxicant of the hour, thus givena grotesque prominence, that made the meet-ing of the first Continental Congress in 1774 apossibility. The spirit of the colonists ere tea became theparamount issue may be reviewed, but reviewedbriefly. With the close of the French and IndianWar the imperial power of England in Americadominated the continent from the Gulf of Mexicoto the icy shores of Hudsons Bay, from the At-lantic to the partially explored Mississippi. 38 NEW JERSEY AS A COL. Claiming that the struggle to drive the Frenchfrom the continent had been as much for the bene-fit of the colonies as for her own aggrandizement,England contended that America should contrib-ute toward paying the debt incurred. To thispolicy there was but little opposition, the colo-nies simply claiming that requisitions for the ex-penses of the crown should be raised through theact and operation of local Legislatures. Butthrough blundering the American revenue act of1764 provided that money should be raised byParliament, and a plan mutually agreed uponfailed because of the methods used to make iteffective. Added to this came the hated stamps,as if from mistake the ministry drove itself intofatal error. Stupidly asserting a right to taketheir kinsmens patrimony under any circum-stances, the revenue act of 1767 placed dutiesupon six most conspicuous imports—glass, redand white lead, paper, painters colors, and tea
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