A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . burned in the harbor. The Tea Ships at Boston,—In Boston the British officialsrefused to let the ships return. The citizens determinedthat the tea should not be landed. A guard watched theships day and night. Samuel Adams was the leading spirit on this occasion. Town-meetings wereheld, and the owner of the ships was or-dered to take them away. But the col-lector refused a clearance to the shipsand the governor a pass to the days passed. On the twen-tieth the law permitted the custom-houseofficers to s
A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . burned in the harbor. The Tea Ships at Boston,—In Boston the British officialsrefused to let the ships return. The citizens determinedthat the tea should not be landed. A guard watched theships day and night. Samuel Adams was the leading spirit on this occasion. Town-meetings wereheld, and the owner of the ships was or-dered to take them away. But the col-lector refused a clearance to the shipsand the governor a pass to the days passed. On the twen-tieth the law permitted the custom-houseofficers to seize the vessels and unloadthem by force. The Boston Tea-Party.—On that day,December 16, 1773, a great town-meet-ing was held. It was decided that thetea should not be landed. Evening hadfallen when Samuel Adams rose andsaid, This meeting can do nothing moreto save the country. ^ As though this were a signal, a party of citizens disguised as Indians gave a war-whoop at the door and rushed down the street toward the wharf. Boarding the vessels, they hoisted up the tea-. BosTON Tea-Party. ^ Samuel Adams, the leader of the Boston populace in the cause ofliberty, was born in that city in 1722. He was devoted to liberty evenas a student at Harvard College. He was always poor, but could notbe bought. When General Gage offered pardon to the Americans,Samuel Adams and John Hancock were excepted. He proposed theCongress of 1774 and became one of its members. Independencethroughout had in him a persistent advocate. He died in 1803. A NEW KING AND A NEW POLICY. 187 chests, three hundred and forty-two in all, broke them open,and poured their contents into the harbor. In two hourstime the work was over and the Boston tea-party at anend. The tea which the colonists were to have been forcedto drink had gone to feed the fishes. Acts in Retaliation.—When the news of this act of vio-lence came to England the king and his ministers werebitterly incensed. Instead of taking warning and drawin
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