Rural Repository Volume 17 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ...eannot ho too indelihly impressed upon the mind. The seene aeted in Boston harhor will he handed down from feneration to generation, till tlie latest year of the great Ameriean people. For the purpose of aeting our part in the reeorJing historieal drama, and fer the pleasure of our readers, we have proeured this engraving at eonsiderahle expense for this paper. The eireumstanees from whieh the engraving was designed were hriefly these: In the fall of 1773, lare quantities, of tea were j' imported into Button from England, hy mer-I ehants engaged in the Eisl lnd;a trade, hut hy I' eonsent and approhation of the ministry--whe were desirous, perhaps, of putting the temper ef the people t-another trial. Tho eolonies, espe-eially Massaehusetts, hud afforded a rent mar-I ket for the sale of this artiele. A drawhaek was j allowed in England on all whieh was exported, whieh was another indueement to send it to : Ameriea. The peopleof Boston had early notiee i I of the intended shipment; and a meeting was, held, nihen the agreoment not to purehase or uBt, I tea was revived, aud it was further determined that it -hould not he lauded. The eonsignees were desired not to reeeive it, nor allow it to he lakrn from the ships. They deelined making any sueh promise. A seeond meeting was ealled, when it was voted, " that the duty on tea was a tax on the people, imposed without their eonsent; ind that sending the artiele into the provinee, in tins manner, was an attempt to enforee the plan of the ministry to raise a revenue; and was, therefore, a direet attaek on the liherties of the people; and that whoever should reeeive or vend the tea, would prove himself an enemy to tho eountry." A eommittee of the town was again direeted to wait on the eonsignees, ...