. Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city. usetts legislature of the kings command torescind a certain circular letter which had beensent out by Samuel Adams with the unmis-takable purpose of securing the cooperationof the other colonies in resistance to the Town-shend Acts. The king desired above all thingsto prevent any such union as this, and it oc-curred to him that he could do much to headit off by frightening the patriots with Parliament had its own quarrels withGeorge III, and would not easily consent tothis course. Accordingly,
. Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city. usetts legislature of the kings command torescind a certain circular letter which had beensent out by Samuel Adams with the unmis-takable purpose of securing the cooperationof the other colonies in resistance to the Town-shend Acts. The king desired above all thingsto prevent any such union as this, and it oc-curred to him that he could do much to headit off by frightening the patriots with Parliament had its own quarrels withGeorge III, and would not easily consent tothis course. Accordingly, some excuse wasneeded to justify the unusual measure. Thesacking of Hutchinsons house was made soto serve. Then, in June, 1768, there was a 16 OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS sliglit conflict between townspeople and revenueoflicers, in which no one was hurt, but whichled to a great town meeting in the Old SouthMeeting-House, and gave color to GovernorBernards complaint that Boston was a dis-orderly town, and that he was being intimidatedand hindered in the execution of the laws there. ~v. THE CASTLE (fORT INDEPENDENCE) AS IT LOOKS TO-DAY Yet the kings real purpose in sending thetroops was, as has been hinted, to force thepeople to observe the odious Townshend being the case the arrival of the soldierssimply increased, of course, the danger of dis-turbance. Moreover, even according to British-made law, the men should have been lodged inCastle William down the harbor. The troublewhich immediately ensued may be directlytraced indeed to the infringement of this pro-vision. For encounters between the soldiery OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 17 and the townpeople soon became frequent,and in September, 1769, James Otis was bru-tally assaulted at the British Coffee Houseby one of the commissioners of customs, aidedand abetted by two or three army eventually became insane from being-struck on the head in this affray, and the feelingof the people toward the soldiers naturally in-cr
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