The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-18
The Destruction OF Tea in Boston
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The 10th of December, now near at hand,
will close the one hundredth year since the
destruction of three cargoes of British tea
in Boston Harbor. Shall the event pass by
unnoticed by our citizens?
Whoever is familiar with the early history
of the conflict with the mother country, can
not be ignorant of the fact that this transac-
ton, put through as it was by mere hand
full of patriots to use the common parlance
of the day, mechanics, and laboring men,
was the entering wedge or lever that top
pied over British rule in the colonies, the
fall of which Jared the lcorld, and whose
vibrations are being felt in all civilized
lands.
In the view taken by our great historian,
Mr.. Bancroft of this transaction, ITS ini-
portance can hardly be fully estimated, in
giving momentum to the cause
of civil liberty throughout the whole coun-
try. AS the news went abroad, it electrified
the American people, instantly, into a reso-
lutte determination to resist to the bitter end
British rule on this continent And when
the news of this bold and daring affair
reached England, her statesmen, with
GREATNESS anxiety, stared at each other in
wild amazement, for they saw at once that
the Yankee blood was up, and but too plain
ly that British rule and AUTHORITY was
doomed in America.
How then can Bostonians now afford to
let the one-hundredth anniversary of that
day Iass unnoticcd In calling it up thou
sand thrilling memories cluster around its
history. The great meeting of that memoir
orabe afternoon, OF more than seven thou
sand patriots, gathered together in the Old
South, and its vicinity, composed of ardent
and true men from the neighboring towns,
with Samuel Adams, Paul Revere,B John
Hancock, and the younger Quincy and 9TH
er distinguished men, patriots all, to give
impetus and inspiration to the multitude, on
that memorable day, and as the shades of
night gathered around them. Then to see
that little band of heroes, full of patriotic
Indignation, not more than forty or fifty,
pass out from the throng and wend their
way in the disguise of Indians towards
Grifiin's wharf, and then and there coolly
and deliberately take possession, and in a
few short hours destroying all the accursed
tea on board of the three ships, and then
calmly and steadily marching to their sew
eral homes under the inspiring fife and
drum of "Yankee Doodle"
Surely then such scene and such an
event, and one of such transcendant import
ance, it being the key note of liberty and
human rights to the whole world. Nearly
century has passed by since the drama OF
the American Revolution closed, and we
now lind our country, yet young, in the
front ranks of the nations of the world and
the actors in its opening scenes have leng
since passed on to their great reward. Does
not then the present generation of Boston
ians owe II to themselves, as well as Their
patriotic ancestry, publicly to remembrance
at least once in century and at its close,
the great deeds and noble daring of such
men? Let us then assemble in Old Faneuil
Hall, and call on our "silver-tongued" Bos-
tonian to recount the valor and patriotic
daring of ''The Boston Tea-Party."
V. LII. LII.