Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . s, thousands were thrown out of employ-ment. The other towns along the coast linerefused, however, to take advantage of Bostonsplight, and relief was freely sent to the boy-cotted city. The legislature met now at Salem, for rebel-lious Boston could no longer be the seat of govern-ment, and to it came, soon after Gage had takenpossession, a messenger to dissolve its members, however, held the door againstthis messenger and, before he had had a chanceto deliver his lords decree, a call to the othe
Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . s, thousands were thrown out of employ-ment. The other towns along the coast linerefused, however, to take advantage of Bostonsplight, and relief was freely sent to the boy-cotted city. The legislature met now at Salem, for rebel-lious Boston could no longer be the seat of govern-ment, and to it came, soon after Gage had takenpossession, a messenger to dissolve its members, however, held the door againstthis messenger and, before he had had a chanceto deliver his lords decree, a call to the othercolonies had been sent out, — and the firststep toward the initial meeting of the Conti-nental Con ogress had been taken. To its sessionsin Philadelphia John and Samuel Adams were OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 41 sent as delegates, the absence of the formergiving us the first of those remarkable lettersfrom Al)igail Adams to which reference will bemade later, and that of the latter supplyingto Dr. Joseph Warren the opportunity to drawup at Milton, in the county of Suffolk, a series. THE SUFFOLK RESOLVES HOUSE, MILTON of resolves which fairly set on foot the Revolu-tion. These resolves, nineteen in number, were byfar the boldest doctrines ever adopted or pro-mulgated in America, and probably did morethan any one other thing to bring matters toa crisis. They declared that the sovereign who 42 OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS breaks his compact with his subjects forfeitstheir allegiance. They arraigned as uncon-stitutional the repressive acts of Parliament, andrejected all officers appointed under their au-thority. They directed collectors of taxes to pay overno money to the royal treasurer. They advisedthe towns to choose their officers of militia fromthe friends of the people. They favored a provincial congress, and prom-ised respect and submission to the ContinentalCongress. They determined to act upon thedefensive as long as reason and self-preservationwould permit, but no longer. They thre
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