. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . rinted a picture of a(From the Gazette, Oct. 7,1765) suakc cut iuto scvcral parts, labeledwith the names of the different colonies. It was an old super-stition that if a snake was cut into pieces it would still live if thepieces were imited, and under tliis picture Franklm printed themotto, Unite or die. Tliis design became a favorite emblem. In one respect the colonists had matters in their own said, We will not buy English goods. No orders weresent to England, and ships that crossed the ocean with goods to
. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . rinted a picture of a(From the Gazette, Oct. 7,1765) suakc cut iuto scvcral parts, labeledwith the names of the different colonies. It was an old super-stition that if a snake was cut into pieces it would still live if thepieces were imited, and under tliis picture Franklm printed themotto, Unite or die. Tliis design became a favorite emblem. In one respect the colonists had matters in their own said, We will not buy English goods. No orders weresent to England, and ships that crossed the ocean with goods tosell had to carry them back. Then theEnglish manufacturers begged Parlia-ment to give up the tax, and the actwas repealed. Parliament declared atthe same time that it had the right totax the colonies, but no one thoitgliimuch about that, and if King GeorgeIII. had not been so unwise and so obstinate, there would proba-bly have been no Revolution. After a little while, new taxes were imposed, and Englishsoldiers continued to come to America. Some were sent to Bos-. FKAXKLINS DEVICE(The initials indicate the colonies) TIMES BEFORE THE REVOLUTION 137 The Fatherof the Revo-lution ton, and one night a quarrel arose between them and some of The Bostonthe citizens. The soldiers fired and killed five. It shows how ^^ssacrearoused the colonists were that they called this the BostonMassacre. It shows how anxious they were to be fair thatwhen the soldiers were tried for murder, they were defended bytwo prominent lawyers, John Adams and Josiah Quincy, said a few years later that tliis was one of the best piecesof service I ever ren-dered my comitry. The colonists re-fused to buy any ofthe goods on which atax was of them agreedto buy nothing madein England so long asthere were duties onany goods. One of thestrong men in this par-ty was Samuel Adams,who has been called the Father of the Revo-lution. George III. and his Friends, as those who supported himwere called, fo
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