. History of the United States : from 1492 to 1872. ade for supplying the equipments and munitions of anarmy. The whole was placed under the direction of acommittee of safety, with John Hancock for a chairman. The arming of the colony had not been unpro-provoked voked. Two months before. General Gage, theor unan- commander-in-chief and the governor, had begun ticipated. o -c & o to fortify the land approach to Boston. He hadalso seized upon some stores of powder belonging to theprovince at Charlestown. Such was the temper excitedagainst liim, that Christopher Gadsden, the representativeof Sout
. History of the United States : from 1492 to 1872. ade for supplying the equipments and munitions of anarmy. The whole was placed under the direction of acommittee of safety, with John Hancock for a chairman. The arming of the colony had not been unpro-provoked voked. Two months before. General Gage, theor unan- commander-in-chief and the governor, had begun ticipated. o -c & o to fortify the land approach to Boston. He hadalso seized upon some stores of powder belonging to theprovince at Charlestown. Such was the temper excitedagainst liim, that Christopher Gadsden, the representativeof South Carolina in the Continental Congress, proposed animmediate attack upon the British head quarters in was the arming of Massachusetts altogether unan-ticipated. No colony, indeed, had gone so far; but manya town, many a band of individuals, was prepared for con-flict. A rumor that Boston was bombarded by the Britishbrought out numbers of the Connecticut militia to therescue of their countrymen. Years before, when the stamp (186). WAR. 187 act was rousing the land to resistance, some ardent NewYorkers had voted to march with all despatch . ,to the reUef of those who should or might be in dangerfrom the stamp act or its abettors, (1765.) The juncturethus prepared for arrived when Massachusetts armed her-self. From that day, war was inevitable. The Britishauthorities would never sit by wliile such things were goingon, nor could they attempt any measures of repressionwithout arousing the colonists to use the weapons whichthey had The example of Massachusetts was soon followed. Arming ^ of other Fai and near, the colonies, by act of assembly, orof convention, or of individual resolution, took upthe posture of defence. All the while, the national spiritwas sustained by the American Association, and by thecommittees appointed to enforce it. Though not universallyprevalent, the Association had extended itself more widelyand more deeply than any previous bond of
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