A history of the American people . onx/. tfftif&AimaTT-^ THOMAS HUTCHINSON There was no violence elsewhere to equal this inBoston. There was tumult everywhere, but in mostplaces the mobs contented themselves with burningthe stamp agents in effigy and frightening them intothe instant relinquishment of their offices. Not until138 THE PARTING OF THE WAYS the autumn came, and the day for the application ofthe Act, did they show a serious temper again. ThenNew York also saw a house sacked and its furnitureused to feed a bonfire. The people insisted upon havingthe stamps handed over to their own cit
A history of the American people . onx/. tfftif&AimaTT-^ THOMAS HUTCHINSON There was no violence elsewhere to equal this inBoston. There was tumult everywhere, but in mostplaces the mobs contented themselves with burningthe stamp agents in effigy and frightening them intothe instant relinquishment of their offices. Not until138 THE PARTING OF THE WAYS the autumn came, and the day for the application ofthe Act, did they show a serious temper again. ThenNew York also saw a house sacked and its furnitureused to feed a bonfire. The people insisted upon havingthe stamps handed over to their own city officers; andwhen more came they seized and burned them. AtPhiladelphia many Quakers and Church of England. MAS 111 1< S BOMnN men, and some Baptists, made as if they would haveobeyed the Act ; but the mobs saw to it that they shouldnot have the chance. The stamp distributer was com-pelled to resign, and there was no one from whomstamps could be obtained. Stamp distributers whowould uut resign found it best to seek safety in was no one in all the colonies, north or south,who had authority to distribute the hated pieces ofstamped paper which the ministers had expected wouldso conveniently yield them a modest revenue lor theircolonial expenses. There was a little confusion and A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE inconvenience for a time. The courts hesitated totransact business without affixing the stamps requiredto their written pleadings; it seemed imprudent to sendships out without stamps on their clearance papers;business men doubted what would come of using nostamps in their transactions. But the hesitation didnot last long. Business was presently going for
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