Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-02-01

put TO the other coDsignees, enc by one, who
each and all answered, Il cannot comply with
your demard.'
Molineux then read to then another pa
per, containing q resolve passed at Liberty
Tree, that the consignces who should refuse
TO comply with the request Of the people
were enemies to their country. Descending
into the street, he made his report to the peo-
plo. 'Out with them, out with them was
the cryj but he di.suaded them from vio-
lence.' ga
After further details as TO the consignees
and OF the committees Of correspondence, and
the council, the narrative proceeds:
The true-hea-ted people were as vigilant
as tIey were determined. The men of Cam
bridge assembled on the twenty.sixth, and
after adopting the Philadelphia resolves, ve-
ry unanimously, voted that as Boston was
struggling for tho liberties of their country,
they could no longer stand idle spectators,
but were ready on the shortest notice to join
with it and other towns in any measure that
might be thought proper to de liver them
selves and posteriy from slavery The next
day the town OF Char lesion assembled and
showed such spirit that tver after its CON-
mittee was added to those who assume the
executive direction.
The combination was hardly finished
when on Sunday, the twenty-eighth day Of
November, the ship Da tmouth appeared in
Boston harbor with one hundred ana fourteen
chests of the East India Company's tea. To
keep the Sabbath strictly was the New Eng
land usage. But hours were precious; let
the tea be entered, and i: would be beyond
the power of the consignee to send it back
The selectmen held one meeting by day and
another in the evening, but they sought in
vain for the consignees, who had taken re.
fuge in the castle.
The committee Of correspondence was
more efficient. They met also on Sunday,
and obtained from the Quaker Rotch, who
owned the Dartmouth, a promise not to en-
ter his ship till Tuesday, and authorized
Samuel Adams to invite the committee of
the five surrounding towns, Dorchester, Rox-
bury, Brooklyn, Cambridge md Charlestown,
with their own townsmen and those Of Bos-
ton, to h old mass meeting the next morn
ing. Faneuil Hall could not contain the
people that poured in on Monday. The con-
course was the largest ever known. Ad-
j,urning to the Old South Meeting House,
Jonathan Williams did no. fear to act as
Moderator, nor Samuel Adams, Hancock,
Young, Mulineux and Warren to conduct the
business of the meeting. On the motion Of
Samuel Adsms, who entered fully into The
question. the assembly, CO imposed ofupwards
of five thousand persons, resolved uuani
mously that 'the tea should be sent back to
the place from whence it ca me at all events 4,
and that no du,y should be paid Oh it,
The only way to get rid Of it, said Young,
is to throw it overheard The consignees
asked for time to prepare their answer; and
sout If great tenderness the body postponed
receiving it 10 the x. morning. Mean.
time the owner and muster Of the slip were
convened and forced to promise not to land
the tea. A watch was also proposed. ~
said Hancock, 'wil be one Of it, rather than
that there shorld be none. And pfrty oe
twenty five persons under the orders of Ed
wrrd Practor as its captain, was appointed
to guard the tea snip during the night
After detailing further proceedings and
1.-THE arrival OF more :ea ships, the narrative
con cudcS
'On Saturday, the eleventh, Rotch, the
owner of the Dartmouth, is summoned be-
fore the Boston committee with Samuel
Adams in the chair; and asked why he has
not kept his engagement, to take his vessel
and tea back 20 London, within twenty days
of its arrival. He pleaded that it was out OF
his power The ship must CO. was the an
sw er; 'the people Of Boston and the neigh
boring towns absolutely require and expect
it, and they bade him ask for clearance
and pass, with proper Witnesses Of his de-
mund, Were it mine.' said a leading mer-
chant, Il would certainly send it back
Hutchinson acquainted Admiral Montague
with what was passing; on which the Active
and Kingfsher, though they mad been laid
up for the winter, were ssnt to guard the
pass . es out of the harbor. At the same
time orders were given by the governor to
fire loud guns a, thescas,le,so that no vessel,
except coasters might go to sea without
permit. Hc had no thought Of what was to
happen; the wealth of Hancock, Phillips,
Rowe, Dennie, and so many other men OF
property, seemed to him a security against
violence, and he fattered himself that he
had increased the perpexities OF the COM
mittee.
The decisive day draws nearer and nearer;
on the morning of Monday, the thirteenth,
the committees of the five towns are at
Faneuil Hall, with that Of Boston. Now
that danger was really at hand, the men OF
the little town of Maiden offered their blood
and their treasure; for thst which they once
esteemed the mother country, had lost the
tenderness ofa parent, and became their
great oppressor.
we trust in God,' wrote the men OF Lex
ing,on, that should the state of our affairs
require 1t, we shall be ready to sacrifice our
estates and everything dear in life, yea, and
life itself, in support of the common cause
Whole towns in Worchester County were
on tiptoe to come down. go on as you
have begun wrote the COMMITTEES Of Lei
cester on the fourteenth; 'and do not suffer
any of the teas already come or coming to
| be landed, or pay one farthing OF duty. You
may depend on our aid and assistance when
needed.