The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-20

cation of all who are aggrieved, all
may obtain redress" This fnsisItence
cn the Importance of united action
was never lost by Adams. He Con-
t1nued to struggle for it. In 1858 he in
duced the legislature to send circular
letter to the other colonies. Massachu-
setts was tine chief offender, but she
struggled for a principle whose inn
portance was equal to all the colonies
We must never think of the colonies as
actually suffering from oppression,
though the strong language of their
documents often state that as a fact.
What Adams struggled against was the
validity of doctrine which would
make oppression possible In that
struggle he often thought that in this
time of common distress it would be
the wisdom of the colonists more fire.
quentiy to correspond with and to be
more attentive to the particular cir
cumStances of each other. TT seems of
late to have been the policy of the enc
mics of America TO point their artil-
lery against one province only, and
artfully to draw off the attention of
the other colonies, and, if possible to
render that single province odious to
them. while it is suffering ministerial
vengeance for the sake of the common
cause. But it is TO be hoped that the
eolonistS will be aware of this artifice.
At this juncture an attempt to subdue
one province to despetic power is justly
to be considered as an attempt to en-
slave the whole. The colonies form one
political body, of which each is mem
Der The liberties of the whole are
invaded, therefore, the interest of the
whole TO support each individual with
al their weight an influence"
AS the clouds thickene1 his mas terly
resistance to the ill-judged British
policy was continued, and the skill with
which he managed the colonial cause,
keeping within constitutional measures,
wss clearly shown. His newspaper arti-
cles, published as was the custom of
the day under some such nom de plume
as "Candidees," did much to crystaliZe
the opposition. His descendant and
biographer, Wells, rightly calls him
THE true father of democracy in Amer
lea, whose voice and pen were en-
ployed to build up American liberty
not only by public measures, but by
cuftiVating am individual independence
of thought among the working classes
as the true basis of national freedom. -
So successful was he in his control of
the people, and so we'll did he WELD his
power that in 1770 Hutchinson was
Obliged to withdraw from town to the
fort in the harbor the two British reg
iments which had been engaged in
that unfortunate affray known as the
Boston massacre. In the same year,
through his influence, the assembly
appointed a committee of correspond
ence ito communicate such Intelligence
as may be necessary to the agent and
others in Great Britain. and also to the
speakers of the several assemblies
through the continent or to such COM
mittee of correspondence as they have
or may appoint" This idea was still
further carried out by the mere ia
nous resolution of the town of Boston
in November. 1772, appointing a like
committee to state the rights of the
eolonists, and of this province in par
ticufar, as men and Christians and
subjects. and to communicate publicly
the same to the several towns and to
the world, as the sense of this town,
with the infringements and violations
thereof that have been CIR from time to
time may be made. So strong was his
longing for confederation cf all America.
that he always sought to include Can
ada in tine continental combination
The destruction Of the tea in Boston
harbor was managed by Adams, and
when the port bill closed that ilarbor
committee to distribute the donations
which came 50 generously from the
other states. He was chosen a member
of the first continental congress. and
served in that body for seven years. or
nearly until the end of the war. Ear
liest on an the @colonistS he longed for
Independence. and at one time. dis
couraged by the slow progress of the
other colonies toward the acceptance
of that idea, he thought of a separate
Independent confederation of the New