A history of the United States for schools . insisted upon retaining, in order to avoid sur-rendering the principle at issue. He was waiting fora chance to try the question with America. Mean-while, there were disturbances in different colonies ; inNorth Carolina, there was an insurrection against thegovernor, which was suppressed only after a bloodyskirmish ; in Rhode Island, the revenue schooner Gas-pee was seized and burned, and when an order camefrom the ministry requiring the offenders to be sent toEngland for trial, the chief justice of Rhode Island,Stephen Hopkins, refused to obey the o
A history of the United States for schools . insisted upon retaining, in order to avoid sur-rendering the principle at issue. He was waiting fora chance to try the question with America. Mean-while, there were disturbances in different colonies ; inNorth Carolina, there was an insurrection against thegovernor, which was suppressed only after a bloodyskirmish ; in Rhode Island, the revenue schooner Gas-pee was seized and burned, and when an order camefrom the ministry requiring the offenders to be sent toEngland for trial, the chief justice of Rhode Island,Stephen Hopkins, refused to obey the order. In August, 1772, it was ordered that in Massachu-setts the judges should henceforth be paid by thecrown. Popular excitement rose to fever heat, and thejudges were threatened with impeachment should theydare accept a penny from the royal treasury. Commit-Samuel Adams put in operation a scheme by con-espon-which government could go on in the absence a legislature. Each town in Massachusetts appointed 200 THE REVOLUTION. Ch. CAllTOL AT WILLIAMblJL l; a committee to confer with the committees of othertowns. These were called committees of correspon-dence. Any single committee, after obtaining theapproval of the others, was capable of conducting very-important the commit-tees meeting to-gether wouldmake a Provin-cial Congress. In the nextspring, 1773, Vir-ginia carried thiswork of organiz-ing revolution along step further,when DabneyCarr provided forcommittees of correspondence between the several col-onies. From this point it was but a short step to apermanent Continental Congress. 82. The Reception of the Tea Ships. That step wassoon to be taken, for, at length, the king had found anopportunity for trying the question with far, the Americans had successfully resisted him,and got rid of all the duties except on tea. As for tea,they had plenty, but not from England ; they smuggledit from Holland in spite of custom houses and searchwarrants
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