. Antique views of ye towne of Boston . ANTIQUE VIEWS OF BOSTON. 195 BOSTONIANS PAYING THE EXCISEMAN. A short time previous to the Revolution, many cartoons werepublished in Boston and London illustrative of the difficulties thenexisting between the people and the government. We herewithpresent two characteristic engravings of that period. The oneentitled The Bostonians Paying the Exciseman, or Tarring andFeathering, is one of a set of cartoons published in London in1774, and is here faithfully reproduced by the Photo-Electrotypeprocess. The taxing of America was first moved in Parliament inMa
. Antique views of ye towne of Boston . ANTIQUE VIEWS OF BOSTON. 195 BOSTONIANS PAYING THE EXCISEMAN. A short time previous to the Revolution, many cartoons werepublished in Boston and London illustrative of the difficulties thenexisting between the people and the government. We herewithpresent two characteristic engravings of that period. The oneentitled The Bostonians Paying the Exciseman, or Tarring andFeathering, is one of a set of cartoons published in London in1774, and is here faithfully reproduced by the Photo-Electrotypeprocess. The taxing of America was first moved in Parliament inMarch, 1764. The result was the Stamp Act, imposing a tax onall notes, bonds, &c. The reception of this news in Boston wasreceived with universal indignation, which was boldly stamp agents were compelled to resign, and the act whollydisregarded. This is represented in the Cartoon by the mannerin which the stamp act is posted on the Liberty Tree, where thefirst resistance to the obnoxious law took place which led to itsr
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