. The first American Civil War, first period 1775-1778, with chapters on the continental or revolutionary army and on the forces of the crown . ieties and persecutions he had undergone. A verycapable and truly patriotic man, whose sense of dutyin the carrying out of Ministerial measures of which 128 FIRST AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ch. m he was known to disapprove, should have won for himmore appreciation than has been his share. Many mencame down to the Wharf to see him off; while someof them had offered him an address of farewell ; a kindlyact they had later to expiate by public recantation. Thebell
. The first American Civil War, first period 1775-1778, with chapters on the continental or revolutionary army and on the forces of the crown . ieties and persecutions he had undergone. A verycapable and truly patriotic man, whose sense of dutyin the carrying out of Ministerial measures of which 128 FIRST AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ch. m he was known to disapprove, should have won for himmore appreciation than has been his share. Many mencame down to the Wharf to see him off; while someof them had offered him an address of farewell ; a kindlyact they had later to expiate by public recantation. Thebells were tolling muffled peals ; flags at half- mast,shutters on the shop fronts, proclaimed a day of humilia-tion on the day Governor Thomas Hutchinson quittedhis native shores. His predecessor. Governor Bernard,had been sent off amidst ironical salvoes and carols ofrejoicing bells. Patriots had, like the older malcontentsof Boston, a pleasing taste in studied form of public all this sound and symbol, as of a great funeral,had no reference to Governor Thomas was thus Boston proclaimed its reception of thePort Tin Hon. Thomas Gaci .From the Painting at Firle, Sussex (by permission of Viscount Gage). CHAPTER IV THE STORM CENTRE, BOSTON, 1774 LIEUTENANT-GENERAL THOMAS GAGE On 13th May 1774, Governor Thomas Gage hadarrived in Boston to assume a position quite untenable.^The Ministry, ill-informed and misinformed, asBritish Ministries have frequently been, misunderstoodthe posture of affairs, and succeeded in misleading bothParliament and people. The Ministry beheld acrossthe seas a little town, always from its infancy rude,fractious, republican, possessed by a spirit of malign-ancy ; a place it was thought might be cracked likea nut, without much pressure. The ParHament ofEngland and the people too (to say nothing aboutthe Scotch members to a man), had resolved to admin-ister a castigation to Boston, disciplinary and exemplary,such as should r
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