The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-31

Another day and the limit set by law
VIII expire. At length word comes from
the governor that the pass cannot he
given. Samuel Adams is in the chair
Wnen the refusal of the governor is
announced he says: This meeting can
40 nothlng more to save the countryp'
1t is the preconcerted signal. Scarcely
have the words been spoken when a war
Whoop is heard near the door and band
OF Mohawk Indians" followed bv a
crowd OF citizens, rush to the wharf
and soon through the darkness can be
heard upon the deck of the vessel the
blows OF the hatchets as the chests of
tea are broken open 1t is said that
more than one illustrious Bostonian found
the next morning. his shoes full of good
bohea upon which the duty had not been
paid.
A still more dramatic incident and ono
That equally reveals the character of
ADAMS as an apostle of American indie
pendence occurred at the time of the So
called Boston massacre" The citv was
IN ferment of excitement There was
danger that the popuIace would attack
the two regiments of British soldiers and
thus cause a bloody conflict town
meeting was hastily summoned and met
IN the Old South church. A vote was
taken IN accordance with which com
mIttee headed by Samuel Adams waited .
ohcer In command, with the request that
the troops be at once Withdrawn A prom
lse to remove one regiment only is given
AS Adams, followed by the committee
issues from the door of the old state
house to make his report to the meeting
In the Old South church. the word is
passed: Make way for the committee
The throng falls back on either side.
Adams knows the temper of the people.
With barred head he walks slowly through
the channel thus opened. Though but
forty-eight years old his hair is almost
white. He glances to the right and to
the left at the. stern, eager faces, and
repeats in a low, but significant voice:
Both regiments or none! Both regiments
or monet
The committee enters the church ana
reports The Twenty ninth regiment wiz
be Withdrawn, but the Fourteenth must
remain. But the seed sown by the chair
man on his way through the crowd has
already sprung up and come to fruitage
A cry goes up-from floor, from galleries,
from without: Both regiments or
noneH' The sly intriguer knew where
and how to apply the torch, and at the
touch everything. is aflame. The voice OF
the people is omnipotent The meeting
repeats its vote, Adams manfully presses
the demand upon the governor, and at
last the order is given. The regiments
are withdrawn to the fortress in the har-
Dor, and ever after Lord North, the Eng
lish prime minister, speaks of them as
the Sam Adams regiments.
When the colonial congress met, Adams
was one of the most Jealous advocates
o. separation from England. So ardent
and influential in the cause was he that
Gen. Gage testified to his prominence by
excepting only John Hancock and Sam
Adams from the offer of pardon. Few
were thought worthy of such distinction.
Adams signed the famous "declara-
tom and was one of the most active
members of the Continental congress dur.
ing the trying period of the war. Later
he was prominent in the public affairs of
both his state and the nation. In OctO-
Der, 1903, at the age of e'ghty-one, his
earthly life was ended He died a poor
man, and no stone marks the spot where
his dust lies in the Granary burying
ground almost beneath the feet of the
hurrying throngs of the great city. Bos-
ton has commemorated his memory how
ever, in Adams square, where a bronze
statue bears his likeness and name But
he needs not such memorial; his truest
monument is found in the mighty repub-
lilo rising so high among the nations, the
foundations of whose independence no
man did more to establish than the New
England agitator and patriot, Samuel
Adams.-(Copyright 1891