The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-12-12
FREMONT SANDUSKY COUNTY OHIO FRIDAY DECEMBER - 1873

WOAC SOm pAALAOuLSu- DY gQe pres
with a lavish use Of capital letters.
Ebenezer Cutler, of Oxford. cam
to Boston with money in his pocke
boasted that he would buy tea if b
pleased, actually showed bag cor
tanning twelve pounds, and immed
I lately had it taken away from hi
and placed in the hands Of refere,
John Hancock, popular as he wa
felt obliged one time to declare
print that he had not deviated by
hairs breadth from the merchantl
agreement, about cOntrabsnd good:
Thus matters went on for some thre
lyears. Not that the steaming urn di
not grace the house hold board. ]
was Only taxed tea that was tabooed
Struggled tea was consumed in quan
titles, and people, even in Connect
cut, actually talked of trying to cul
tivate it. ALI this was a sore grie
vance to the East India COMPANY
That plucky corporation was deter
mined not to succumb. InI773 tn,
gentlemen Of the board obtained
license to export not more than GOO
600 pounds of tea, free Of duty il
England, on condition of its payins
three pence a pound at the Colopia
custom houses. A British Office
wrote home from New York that on
account of this expectation all Amer
lea Wag in flame.
The New Workers published a pa
per about it, and raised an artillery
company, and the lower classes gave
warning that they would burn every
ship that came in with the obnoxi-
Gus herb. 1t is we'll known that &
quantity landed ct Charleston was
suffered to grow mouldy, and so pas
sively spoiled.
In Boston the merchants to whom
the tea expected in the vessels of the
East India Company was consigned
were notified to resign at a public
meeting their "off1ce Of consignees. y
and to swear to reship the expected
cargoes. On the Sd of November.
l773, this meeting was held. AS the
eonsignees did not wait upon the
meeting, the meeting in a body wait
eG upon the consignees, then assem-
bled at the store ofone oftheir num-
Der Richard Clarke, of the firm Of
Clarke & Sons. The inter
view thus obtained was, as nigh have
been expected unsatisfactory, and
the matter assumed in successive
and discussions the as
pect OF a quarrel between the cit-
zens at large and the Would-be tea
merchants, in which Gtands out pro-
mlnently among the patriots the fig
lre Of John Hancock. The private
residence Of the Clarks was mobbed.
ihe consignees were forced to take
refuge at the fort in the harbor uu-
Ter the protection of the troops. tea
meetings. were held constantly in Bos-
'on and the neighboring towns, and
people were invited to join in ann
Measure that might be thought pro !
Ter to deliver themselves and DOS.
Gritty from slavery. On Sunday. |
November %, one hundred and four
cen chests Of tea arrived in the shin
Dartmouth, Captain James Hall. |
light weeks from London. Next day |
be walls of Boston were aglow with /
aiming handbills.
At nine O'Clock all the bells were
lnging, and great multitude were
lshing to Faneuil Hall. The famous
Id South Church was pressed into (
ervice. 1t was resolved that the tea Il
lould be sent back without pay
-ent of duty; the consignees were IL
otified to send in their submission II
three O'Clock. Captain Hall and 4
r. Francis Roteh, owners of the
artmouth, were notified that they
ould land the tea at their peril; a
atch was set to prevent their doing 6
and even the Governor was cen o
lred, In those days, while one yes Y
i after another was arriving with +
a, the citizens of Boston seem ta j
I'VE done little else than attend c
eetings. The largest was held on P
e 10th of December. It was a o
easant day, and two Thousand per 8
ms were estimated to be present. s
began in the morning, reassemblsd tt
three O'Clock, and continued till g
iarly six. s.
The consignees held out bravelv e
,ainst all circumstances. And Just Z
fore the meeting broke up all pre- y
Mt were startled by the sound of d
e Indian war Whoop. A number 3
men disguised as savages were at Il
e doors, and when the crowd with o
rushed out to them they led the Il
y to Grifin's wharf, where lay the 81
rec vessels, commanded respec- D
ely by Captains Hall, Bruce, and lp
fin. al
In three hours under the guns Il
d the eyes of the British soldiers, b.
lors, and their officers, three hun 10
ed and forty-two chests were bro "
n and their contents flung to the se
nds and the waves. The moon ID
'ked calmly down upon the scene, q
1 among the blanketed and paint II
braves were recognized men of vi
'minence in Boston, one of them IN
ng no less a person than John ie
ncock. Those on board the YES ps
s offered no resistance. The Brit 1t
Admiral is believed to have wit OF
Ised the whole affair, and the pat tn
IS having accomplished their II
rk shook off from their feet the nc
y dust of the tea and went home en-
1t is this event which frC
probably be cOmmemorated as ca
have already started. Memories
h as these, like the house hold re- ex
lection of a family, bind together pr
people of different and distant
nmonwealths in this great family po
he American Union. Here are an
ladies Of Philadelphia proposing inG
commemorate an heroic deed done lnI
Bostonians with just as much
NTH of heart about it, and Just as
,h pride in it, as if it were a rec
written in letters of god in the res
ais of their native CITY. pls
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