The Boston tea party . ard with the tea. We came to Boston, and found the people ripe forthe deed. A great meeting was to be. held at the OldSouth Meeting-House, and we concluded to wait andsee what would be done there. We lodged at this tavern, and held our councils upin this room. Well, there was a tremendous meetingat the Old South, and most of us were there to help tokeep up the excitement, and to push our plan if achance appeared. Young Ouincy made a speech that stirred thepeople, and made them ready for any thing whichwould show their spirit. The people voted with onevoice that the tea s
The Boston tea party . ard with the tea. We came to Boston, and found the people ripe forthe deed. A great meeting was to be. held at the OldSouth Meeting-House, and we concluded to wait andsee what would be done there. We lodged at this tavern, and held our councils upin this room. Well, there was a tremendous meetingat the Old South, and most of us were there to help tokeep up the excitement, and to push our plan if achance appeared. Young Ouincy made a speech that stirred thepeople, and made them ready for any thing whichwould show their spirit. The people voted with onevoice that the tea should not be landed. We saw how things were going, came back to thetavern, put on our Mohawk dresses, and returned tothe meeting. Pitts succeeded in getting into thechurch just about dusk, and raising the answered outside. Then Pitts cried out, BostonHarbor a tea-pot to-night! Ay, exclaimed Pitts, brandishing his knife abovehis head, and Hurrah for Griffins Wharf! The crowd echoed Griffins Wharf, continued. THE BOSTON TEA PARTY THE LEBANON LIBERTY CLUB IS Kinnison, and hurried towards that place. Our menjoined together, returned to the tavern, got our mus-kets and tomahawks, and collected about seventy men,armed with axes and hatchets. Then we pushed forthe wharf where the East Indiamen, loaded with thetea, were lying. Let me see ! — The ships were calledthe Dartmouth, the — The Eleanor, and the Beaver, prompted Colson. Ay, the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and theBeaver, continued Kinnison. You see, my mem-ory is weak. Well, when we reached the wharf, therewas a crowd of people near it. It was a clear moon-light night, and the British squadron was not more thana quarter of a mile distant; so, you see, there was alittle risk. We didnt halt long. Pitts led the way on boardthe Dartmouth, and we followed, musket and toma-hawk in hand. Nobody offered any show of defend-ing the tea. We cut open the hatches, and some ofthe men went down and passed up the chests, whileother
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