A history of the American people . ngress of delegates from the severalcolonies be held in October, ere the Act went into effect,to decide what should be done to serve their commoninterest in the critical matter. The agitations andtumults of that eventful summer were not soon for-got. In August, Boston witnessed an outbreak suchas she had never witnessed before. Mr. Andrew Oliver,who had been appointed distributer of the stamps there,was burned in effigy; the house in which it was thoughtthe stamps were to be stored was torn down ; Mr. Oliversresidence was broken into and many of its furnishin
A history of the American people . ngress of delegates from the severalcolonies be held in October, ere the Act went into effect,to decide what should be done to serve their commoninterest in the critical matter. The agitations andtumults of that eventful summer were not soon for-got. In August, Boston witnessed an outbreak suchas she had never witnessed before. Mr. Andrew Oliver,who had been appointed distributer of the stamps there,was burned in effigy; the house in which it was thoughtthe stamps were to be stored was torn down ; Mr. Oliversresidence was broken into and many of its furnishingswere destroyed. He hastily resigned his obnoxiousoffice. Mobs then plundered the house of the deputyregistrar of the court of admiralty, destroying hisprivate papers and the records and files of the court,—because the new acts of trade and taxation gavenew powers to that court. The house of the comp- THE PARTING OF THE WAYS troller of customs was sacked. Mr. Thomas Hutchin-son, the lieutenant-governor of the colony, found him-. ^/^^^^t^ JOHN DICKINSON self obliged, on the night of the 26th, to flee for hislife; and returned when order was restored to find hishome stripped of everything it contained, includingnine hundred pounds sterling in money, and manu-t37 A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE scripts and books which he had been thirty years col-lecting. Only the walls and floors of the house re-mained.
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