The Republican journal., 1874-01-01
The First Boston Tea Party


The celebration on next Tuesday of TN,
anniversary Of the destruction Of tea j,
Boston harbor. invests with peculiar inter.
~ contemporary accounts of that memoir
able scene, Try as we may to bring the
occasion wildly before the minds of BoS
ionlanS OF tins generation, our utmost en-
i"ayorS will fail to deplete it 50 graph
ralIv as ii appears in the faded paper "a
the newspapers of that time. There is ",
literary or artistic skill that can reproduce
the scene with such life-like impressive
ness as beams upon rs from those worn and
nnSty chronicles of 4 century AGO A.
Nacaulay sOrght in forgotten ballads and
amancs for materials which in his hand.
made the dead past live again, Sc the
freshest OF all possible accounts OF 0u
fathers memorable tea party is to be found
IN the dim and dusty journals which very
l"W of our readers have ever seen There
.le- before Us, rs We write, the newspapers
ot thar interesting period. whose diminu-
live size and pancity OF news brings torci-
hlT to mind the progress which we have
made since that day, while its simple nal-
rativc of the stirring events which it com
HemoratcS makes Us feel that we have not
,urpasSed the patriotism which then made
possible the glory and the greatness ofour
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HiiNb' BRETHREN! Coz NIRl MEN The
nf"t"s H. H your TesieS9 entmlts 10 fr4Ir
peollc demand vour a,rrmhn" NJ tGc VI 6 1'i
thm"oting-hou,e precisely nj , o'clopl, rhj.
I"y' al which tine the Bells viii RIM.
lhat meeting. we need hardly san. va~
ur'd, hat il was adjourned to the follow
me- Thursday, and then at its dissolution
the first Boston tea party. Oh a Grand scale
was celebrated The arrival Of the shin
Dartmouth on Nov. 2S. with ll3 chests 6t
lea which il was intended. foUnativeIy-
~p"aking. 10 force down the thr9ats Of III
people, had, already created great excite
ment and on the Isl of December. the
nip Elinor, with more Of the onpoyious
-lntl' came into port There wa~. ofoollrso.
a good deal of carer discussion ut fine
meeting nj the Old South. and durinu il
Josiah Quincy pointed ont the prob9ble rn-
ult of the controversy. Mr. Hotch the
captain of one of the Ships EXPRESSED his
inability to comply with the request 70
-end the tea back, and brought i message
from the governor sthat for the honor Or
the laws and from duty toward the kino
he could not GRANT the permit until thieves
sci was regularly cleared" As if was oy-
ident that there was danger of an ottcu,,t
10 land the tea. the assembly al the Ola
South was deeply moved but it dissolved
without doing more than express it. oupo-
~iton TO the action of those who had at
tempted 10 force The tea on the peoplo.
II was Just at the close Of the meeting
thai the tea party was formed. Suddenly
a figure dressed as IN Indian appeared in
The gallery, and, Us his war whoop rano
through the house, other persons Simil9rlI
disguised showed thcmselver at the door
Then there was a hasty stampede from tbe
church, and the red men made their