New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-09

don't you fret" Attucks was shot dead OF
the; spot All! it was the same rancor0us
| unamerican query, which in our State to
day an armed horde awaits, to answe
again and again upon the race of .Attucke
as.did the British soldier; but beneath thu
sky that bent over the snow, stained will
his blood, there winged forth down the cen
fury his rally cry, Come on" to inoit,
that race to seek the van in all manly
| endeavor, and confront aggression likl
men. Let there be mo- men in America likl
the militia at Kip's bay, to whom Washing
| ton, spurred in wrath, and dashing his hal
| upon the ground, exclaimed, 'Are these the
men with which am to defend America
Let US determine to halt the rufian in
| politics, and earn the boast of Governor
Livingston in 1777, TT is our peculiar fell
city and our superiority over the tyranni
| cal system We have discarded, that we are
not swayed by men. The laws alone beal
sway"
should be remiss on this centennial day
not to declare that when dead Attacks
whose veins yielded the first blood shed in
our colonial struggle, was lifted whence he
lay, his complexion had morally melted in
the snow for ever from American remem
branoe. Virginia and Carolina forgot his
color then.
We owe our form of Christianity, says the
Vi
andria and Carthage; let US, to be consis-
tent, formally disavow that Christianity, or
let US recognize our obligations in some
thing like decent and humane practice,
The day after the Boston massacre &C
CURED, scene which art has reverently
caught on canvass, posterity hallOwe, and
every heart here should linn and frame
within itself. Sam Adams, at the head of
committee, waited upon the royal Cover.
and council to insist in the name of the
people of Boston upon the removal of the
troops from town. Sam Adams, whose soul
had long since relinquished hope of escape
from the coming struggle, who was Crom-
we'll of the pen, people pent in Mmself-
who wrote bullets and spake bombs; who
was valiant, sagaci0us, artful, self-p0ised,
and terribly in earnest, whose words were
storm-crammed with America; whom, de.
spite his poverty, neither British guineas
nor patents of nobility could buy; who was
. oompend of the stern, tireless passion OF
orscuiar command Of Webster, and the
lofty patience and unselfshness of Wash.
ipgton. This imperial man and ''father of
the revolution" stood before the arrogant
Governor and council and made his de-
msnd. lit is at your peril if You refuse"
said he. 1.-THE whole country is in motion.
Night il approaching. An immediate an
swer is expected" 1t was as if he had
thrust his uplif;ed arm to the elbow down
into the hot heart of Massachusetts, and
drawn forth in his grasp the lightnings of
its wrath, for he drove the royal troops out
of Boeton to Castle William. 1t was their
first retreat before the cOlOnists down tho
historic road that ended at Yorktown. 1t
was on the night of the Boston massacre
that Parliament repealed it's revenue bill,
except as to tea. This exception implied
the right to tax, upon which issue had
already been Joined. 1t was not the three
pence per pound, but the pawned right,
which was the cost of the tea to the colo
mist; 80 he determined neither to use it nor
suffer it to be landed. The attempts to i'm.
port failed at New York, Philadelphia,
Charleston and notably at brave old Bos-
ton, whose people, while demanding the re-
turn unladen of q tea ship, saw two more
sail into port. :
Conscious Of the grave hour in their his
tory, they assembled in town meeting, De-
cember 16, 1878, and thence warned the
owner OF the vessels to seek an immediate
by both collector and Governor. It was q
blow on the cheek of the colODy-s chal-
lenge to the ordeal. Josiah Quincy, such
man as when q community heaves with
volcanic fire to an Etna, strides to its sum-
NIT and bursts flaming portent on the
night. rose in the town meeting and said:
"The exertions of this day will call forth
events which will make a very different
spirit necessary for our salvation.
We must be blind to hope that we shall end
this controversy without the sharpest con-
flicts. Will you abide by your former reso-
luton with respect to not suffering the tea
to be landed r. The dusk of night was
yelling the windows of the townhouse.
1t was the awful mOmert when men
dare stand erect, level-eyed with
their King and look across his empur-
pied shoulders and straight up into the face
of the King Of Kings! They loved all Eng
cast baleful shadows, bat down beneath all
their memories and attachments, beneath
that allegiance to the British constitution
by which they framed their demands,
lodged stern purpose that stole along their
tense arms, visioned their brows with ter.
rible frowns. pinched their dumb lips, and
leadened them through and through. Yet
no answer to Quincy came. Suddenly q
single sharp war whoop startled the grim
and the words "BoetOn harbor
, teapot tonight It was but one shriIl
,narl, but in it every pent heart found vent
and speech. That town meeting was q new,
rough Parliament, so to speak; it adjourned |
from the dark hall to the wharf, and after |
312 chests of tea had been emptied into the |
larbOr by q gang Of sham Mohawks, it |
,l0eed it's serious session and melted into |
he night. It had forever annulled through |
mt tie colonial union the British tax on |
ga.
No recession now-the crisis had come. |
The ministry, determined to compel sub
mission, forgot that the measure Of coercion |
lependence; that every soldier it sent to
nforce its despotic will recruited two colo |
lists to resist it. The colonies stood virtu-
lily with folded ar rs hugging down their
age and gloomy tears-t0 smite their
hOulders now we're dangerous expert
nent. Yet smitten they were. The port
# Boston was closed; the town meeting,
hat stout, hoarse lung of noble Massachu-
etrs, was stified; her charter was prsc-
ically abrogated; the finger Of Governor
xercised the choice, vested in the people,
ried out of their vicinage: and even across
he sea; the troops were again quarte:ed
pom the country, until at length the
rovinces turned slow clouded brows upon
ach other, and saw left in their hands but
shred of q Briton's consent. The aggrieved
eminent flooded the wide extent of the
rovinces like q sea vexed with storm.
It surged higher and higher in it's sudden
olume until it touched forums and pulpits,
'nenco earnest men reached Tor Code |
and. Again pamphlets flew like petrels
:om province to province. Bonfres fed
y royal proclsmstions, painted sunsets of
british authority along the night.
On the first of June when, by closing
oston harbor, Great Britain locked herself
ut of doors from the hearts of the colonies,
Philadelphia sat dumb by her Delaware,
nd Virginia, with fasting and prayer, i'm
lored God to give all her sisters zone
cart and one mind to oppose by all just
nd proper means every injury to Ameri-
IN rights" She forgot that she was q
all save that the union of
olonies was in terrible peril. With the
dings of the new enactments one after the