. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . Americans thegreat William Pitt hastened from a sick bed to Parliament,where his mighty bursts of eloquence glorified Americanresistance and accomplished the repeal of the odious StampAct in the year 1766. At that time we were only a precinct with a populationof less than one hundred and sixty voters, but these polit-ical events excited the whole community. Some one, perhaps many, owned a bronze medal struckoff in honor of William Pitt with this fond inscription: The man who having saved the parent pleaded withsuccess for her child
. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . Americans thegreat William Pitt hastened from a sick bed to Parliament,where his mighty bursts of eloquence glorified Americanresistance and accomplished the repeal of the odious StampAct in the year 1766. At that time we were only a precinct with a populationof less than one hundred and sixty voters, but these polit-ical events excited the whole community. Some one, perhaps many, owned a bronze medal struckoff in honor of William Pitt with this fond inscription: The man who having saved the parent pleaded withsuccess for her children. One of these was found a fewyears ago, buried some four feet underground, in laying ourwater pipes near the creek at the head of the Cove,evidently lost there at the time when the roadway was filledin upon the marsh at the creek. The love for the greatEarl of Chatham, which throbbed then in the hearts ofCohasseters, may be guessed from this bronze token. HE MANfWHO HAVINGSAVED THE(PARENT TLEADE]WITH SUCCESS,FOR HER£H I LDKE1 William Pitt Medal— THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 283 But the time for more sturdy patriotism was yet tocome. During the ten years of excitement in Boston pre-ceding the outbreak of war some of our young men, whowere learning their trades of shipbuilding or of what else inthat town, were fast developing their sentiments of no specific deed of historic interest was participated inby us until the memorable Tea Party of December 16, that occasion, which the historian John Fiske callsone of the most momentous days in the history of theworld, three of our young men were active all have read of that whole day mass meeting in theOld South Church, Boston, where a throng of seven thou-sand men on the streets and indoors struggled to keepdown their anger while they discussed the means of pro-tecting themselves from the tyranny of King were determined not to allow the Dartmouth toland her cargo of tea with its o
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