. Some facts concerning York and York County : a sesqui-centennial memento. t ourancestors peopled this country, and when I04 York and tlie English Parliament, in 1765, sought totax them without consulting them, they werequick to perceive that the power to tax isthe power to destroy, and to make knownthe fact that they were touched at a sensitivepoint. Resistance was prompt and spontan-eous throughout the colonies, but the stormcenter was at Boston. In a short space oftime the people became organized throughthe appointment of committees of corre-spondence in each State and county, result-ing l
. Some facts concerning York and York County : a sesqui-centennial memento. t ourancestors peopled this country, and when I04 York and tlie English Parliament, in 1765, sought totax them without consulting them, they werequick to perceive that the power to tax isthe power to destroy, and to make knownthe fact that they were touched at a sensitivepoint. Resistance was prompt and spontan-eous throughout the colonies, but the stormcenter was at Boston. In a short space oftime the people became organized throughthe appointment of committees of corre-spondence in each State and county, result-ing later in the creation of the ContinentalCongress. At a public meeting called forJuly 4, 1774, a committee for York county,including at least one member for each town-ship, was duly elected. This committeeelected for its president and vice presidentrespectively, James Smith and Thomas Hart-ley, men whose names will ever remain illus-trious in the history of York county, and ofthe nation. James Smith was supremely the leaderamong us in early revolutionary times. His o »? 2. York Co7inty loj ability and ripe judgment (he was then pastsixty) were only equaled by his zeal and en-thusiasm for the cause. He was chosen toser\-e in numerous representative capacities,in one of which he was permitted to inscribehis name on that eternal roll of honor, theDeclaration of Independence. Xo betterexpression of the patriotic fire which filledthe breasts of our ancestors can be obtainedthan from the following extract from a letterdated April 13, 1775, probably penned bySmith, on behalf of the York county commit-tee of correspondence to the people of Bos-ton: Sorry are we to hear that the hand ofoppression still bears hard on your city andthat the distress of your poor is not allevi-ated. If your sufferings could be divided theinhabitants of this county would cheerfullybear a part. This, it seems, cannot be distant town must stand the shockalone. We want words to express the highsense we
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