. Historic Boston and its neighborhood ; an historical pilgrimage personally conducted. With regard to those survivors, there isai^ interesting fact to be borne in mind,which is, indeed, an illustration of the creditto be given to many historical proper Tea Party—that is to say, thebody of men who combined and went to-gether to Griffins Wharf to throw the teainto the sea—organized itself in a Masoniclodge, or in Masonic lodges, and the memberstook an oath that they would never revealthe events of that night. To this oath theyall held themselves bound till the last one ofthem die
. Historic Boston and its neighborhood ; an historical pilgrimage personally conducted. With regard to those survivors, there isai^ interesting fact to be borne in mind,which is, indeed, an illustration of the creditto be given to many historical proper Tea Party—that is to say, thebody of men who combined and went to-gether to Griffins Wharf to throw the teainto the sea—organized itself in a Masoniclodge, or in Masonic lodges, and the memberstook an oath that they would never revealthe events of that night. To this oath theyall held themselves bound till the last one ofthem died. The enterprise required thatthe North End section should pass the OldSouth Meeting-House, where a meeting wasgoing forward, adjourned from Faneuil Hall,to consider the whole business of the meeting was not strictly a Boston townmeeting, although the Boston town meetingwas merged in it; but there were citizensfrom all the neighboring towns present. Atthe moment when the disguised Mohawkscame to the meeting-house, Sam Adams, whowas presiding, said, This meeting can do. TO FIND OXES WAY. 71 notMng more to save the coiiiitiy/ and ad-journed it. All tlie thi^ee or four thousandpeople who were present then followed theMohawks to the wharf. By this time, un-doubtedly, all Boston knew what was goingon, and as the snn went down and as themoon came out on the scene, it may be fairlyguessed that nineteen twentieths of the adultmale population of Boston was on the slope ofFort Hill or on the shore, rendering suchassistance as they could in the enterprise inhand. But one tradition and another tellhow, when new men attempted to board theships, they were prevented by sentries estab-lished by the original conspirators. Theseconspirators were men who understood allabout unloading shijDS ; it was the businessof many of them in daily life; and the car-goes were withdrawn with haste and thethree hundred and seventy-three chests of teawere emptied into the sea. Then everybodywent ho
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