The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-12-12
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(From the Philadelphia Press, Oct. 9s- ,I9S
Commemorstingl the Boston Tea
Party.

A meeting of the ladies interest
ed in the approaching Centennis
was held at Spring Garden Hall
lew days since, at which it was pro
8 posed to give a grand tea party
h The contemplated festivity differ
{ from all others in being not an oc
casion Of mere social enjoyment, bu
the commemoration of one of tbl
most marked events of the Reyolu
/ tlon-the destruction of tea in Bos
ton harbor on the night of Decembe
16, 1873.
Of all the differences between tbe
mother country and the colonies
none more directly and keenly cam,
home to the people than the oues.
ton of taxed tea; and nowhere was
there more trouble about it. as every
body knows, than in the good town
OF Boston. The stamp act, which il
too well understood to require descrir
ton; the mutiny act, passed also in
l765, required the colonies in Ger.
tain cases to quarter the RovaI
troops; the arrival of transports and
frlgates flying the British colors: the
appearance of the ed-coats in mar
tlal array In Boston streets, white
tents on the Commons, and artillery
and stacked muskets in front of the
Town House-all these novelties ex-
cited and angered the loyal and low
ling subjects Of his Gracious Majesty
King George the Third.
In vain did the gentlemen OF the
squadron and of the 64th and 65tb
Regiments of the line announce q
series of festivities for the delecta-
tion of Boston Society. Society re-
fused to be entertained or entertain
ing. The gay uniforms of the dash.
ing officers failed to convince the
daughters ofthe Commonwealth that
none but the brave-indeed, that anv
OF those particular bravss-deseryed
the fair. Business was interrupted
smusements suspended, society was
not at home to the royal offers, and
the legislature returned to Cam
bridge.
From the day on which the soldiers
marched up King street, all Boston
was in ferment. Private braWls be-
gan to be succeeded by public riots. |
and the soldiers at last fired ON the
citizens. This was on the 18th ofE
March, ITO. On that very dav bv |
an odd coincidence, Lord North then
Prime Minister Of Gre2t Britain
made speech in the House of Com.
mons, advocating the repeal of all |,
the American duties excepting the
tax on tea. If Lord North had read |.
the history ofthe Dutch Republic aa
carefully as he onght to have done
ne might have remembered that the
Hollanders suffered long for their re-
llgion, but that as soon as certain
new and unusual taxes were impos-
ed by their Spanish master their
long suffering came to an end. and
Spain lost the Netherlands.
AS it happened, his LordsbiD al.
lowed to remain the very tax that of
all others ought to have been abol-
Ished. The rest effected mainly the
men, but that particular one incon-
the woman, and the Pre-
meir should have known human ma
lure well enough to be aware that :
hero would probably be more trou.
Die about it than about all the rest 5
put together. At the time of the
'massacres," as it was called. on the
9TH OF March, there was only one sell
er OF tea in Boston who had not l
Iigned an agreement to dispose Of no '
mere of that article uutil the late l
evenue acts were repealed. Mean =
While half a dozen cargoes of various
foods were on their way from the
Thames to the port of Boston. With Z
hem came the news of what Lord >
North had succeeded in doing, and y
lso OF what he had attempted to do. 4
The ladies of Boston insisted on !"
whether any of the vessels ~
ewly-anchored in the harbor had !
ca on board. One Of them had a G
alf cargo of it. 1t must 90 back. ?
ohm Hancock offered one of his .
wn vessels free of charge to take it; q
nd back went the chests unopened -
D the Lendon merchants. The Ia Is
ies-for it was peculiarly their own ~
everage-had taken the matter II
p some time before. FEBRUARY "
that year, one hundred of them "
esiding in North Boston had signed ~
q agreement to drink no taxed tea. /"
1t is true that they had to pay less W "
'r 1t to the Home Government than -
as paid without complaint by the 81 81
ritish female. She, however, was u u
presented by her natural protectors "
Parliament, whereas the American a.
oman was not. These one hun VI
red matrons were initiated by two "
undred more; and they il turn bv ~
le young ladies, daughters" they ~ ~
aimed to be, "of the patriots who IN u
ave appeared for the public inter u u
It," Mrs. Mary Vibert being post an
as having bought tea of William
her husband not only in
'rted a card in the papers of the ha
~ denying that his wife, himself fr(
any one for either of them, had sc1
ade any such purchase but added tn
a postscript the interesting fact mn
at Mrs, Vibert had gone to the he
ore ony to get some shoes sent int
ere from Lynn. Mr. jackson was ne
le ofthe few respectable merchants de
40 persisted in importing contrary no
'reement and to the wish Of the Inn
people. His store was in King or
rect, at the sign of the Brazen lin,
cad, and compatrlots we're kind sci
ough to say that his chosen en- ca
EN- was beautifully appropriate. vi,
he young ladies of the Rev. Mr.. ne
orehead's congregation had vi,
.rty at his house, spun 232 skeins tb,
yarn, all in Love, Fraternity and ca,
pplication, and, indulging in no tb,
freshments not wholly of Ameri- tn,
n DrOducfiOn aypapt a IittIo r,,;,~