River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-09-13
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But the British Government had in
some way got the idea that it had a little
too much colony, and could spare some
of it.
So it sent the tea over.
The worst of the transaction was that
the tea was found to be bad. 1t had all
been used once, and was, IN fact, what
would have been called grounds, had it
been coffee.
This aroused the ire OF the patriots,
and so they refused to allow the tea to
land.
At New York the Knickerbockers put
upa sign:
PLEASE KEEP OFF THE GRASS"
which, posted on the extreme end of Co
ney Island, had the effect of keeping the
ships away.
But the Bostonians adopted different
method.
Boston was called the Cradle of Liberty.
Boston Graded that tea.
When two ships, with a consignment of
over 500 ferocious chests of despotic Tea
arrived in Boston Harbor public feeling
was aroused.
Boston rose in her might, and assem-
bled around the Frogpond.
The citizens all forgot their occupations.
Business was entirely suspended.
A prominent citizen going to get pair
of boots half-soled ana heeled, was aston
ished to find the artists studio closed.
"Why is this" he said. where is john
Quincy Adamsln
Hes gone to the Common" was the
reply.
Owing TO the absence OF a member of
the Hancock family the butcher shop was
also closed.
1t was estimated that there was more
retail patriotism that day around the mar
gin of that sacred pool than has ever been
seen there since.
Boston is now purely aesthetic.
The Adamses have gone into the states
man and ice-cream freezing business.
The Hancocks are extinct.
John Hancock, on being permitted TO
sign the Declaration of Independence,
covered so much of the paper that his as
sociates were obliged to ask him il he
thought that Congress had convened sole
ly for the purpose of advertising his trade
mark.
He replied that they did not come from
Boston, but were outside barbarians.
Which led to his retirement from this
vale oftears.
But we anticipate.
Boston being, so to speak, ON her Athe-
nian ear, party of delegates from the
best families, including four Adamses, met
in secret on the night of the 10th Of De
cember, 1774.
They disguised themselves as Indians.
A keen eye might have penetrated the
disguise owing to their using a better
grade of spirits than those which they
sold the guileless aboriginee.
But as they waited for night to
throw her veil over the deed of valor
which they contemplated, it made no
matter.
As soon as the darkness arrived, they
marched on the two tea ships and made
an attack, which, for desperate courage
and superhuman hardihood, has but few
parallels in history.
The execution done among the aston
ished tea chests was something wonder
full. Their defeat was immediate and
complete.
When the fearful fight was over, and
and the tender stars looked pityingly up
on the scene of carnage, the victors, elate
and flushed with triumph, Except the
four Adamses-they were not flushed) re-
turned to their homes, and casting aside
their warrior disguise, called their sons to
their knees, and said:
my children, go down to the point at
the end of the bay, where the current
drifts things into the stern and rock
bound shore, and scoop for that tea"