The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-08-01

longing to do their duty to their
families, the community and the
State"
With a strong desire for free
dom and with no social cOnnec-
ton with Great Britain, they
eagerly sprang forward at the call
to resist the British commands.
Few of them were Tories, and in
all Western Maryland we find
comparatively few who refused to
sign the Association of the Free
men of Maryland and enroll them
selves in the militia companies.
unless they were Quakers, Men
nonities or Dunkers, and so had
religious scruples.
The very children were patriots,
aud a nine-year-Old son of Capt.
William Keyser begs "that God
may prosper you and your united
brethren in your laudable under
taking and in the end crown you
with the laurels of a complete
victory over the enemies of the
ineStimabla rights, liberties and
privileges of distressed America
and hand them down inviolate to
the latest posterity. My Dear
Father, my greatest grief is that
1 am incapable of military service,
that l might enjoy the company
of so loving a father and serve
my country in so glorious a cause,
but, tho absent from you, yet my
constant prayer is for your safety
in the hour of danger, your com.
plete victory over the enemies OF
the United States of America and
your safe restoration to the gov
eminent of your family"
In the struggle between Gov
ernor Eden and the popular party
over the fee question, Frederick
was heartily with the opponents
of the proclamation, and we find
an address from the freemen of
the county to Charles Carroll of
Carrollton, thanking him for his
"spirited. manly and able opposi-
ton to that illegal, arbitrary and
unconstitutional measure" of the
Provincial Government.
They were no less active i'll
passing resolutions of sympathy
with Boston and of nOninter-
course with Great Britain and the
West Indies, until the act block
ing up Boston harb0r should be
repealed, and "the right of taxa
ton given up on permanent prin-
ciples" and not for expediency.
The county was growing so pop
ulous that it was becoming un
wieldy and was preparing itself
for a division into three parts.
The lower part met first at Hun
gerford's Tavern, on June IL,
1874, adopted resolutions and APP
3 pointed a committee of CORES.
pondence of 10 members. The
middle district, gathering at the
court house in Fredericktown, on
June 20, under the craftsmanship
of John Hanson, followed with
resolutions of stringent non inter
; course and with the appointment
of a committee of correspondence
of 10 members. The upper part
of Frederick county waited until
July 9, when 500 of its principal
inhabitants assembled at Hagers.
town, made John Stull moderator,
chose committee of correspon-
', dence of IL members and adopted
: resolutions, not only agreeing
with what the other parts of the
county had done, but also APP.
proving of the plan of Continen'
; tai Congress and promising tC
, "adhere to any measure that may
4 be adopted by them for the pre-
= servatiOn of our liberties" Be
! lieving that the "surest means
n for continuing people free and
a happy is the disusing all luxuries
= and depending only on their OWL
fields and flocks for the comfort
a able necessities of life," they re-
solve to kill no sheep, to begin tt
! manufacture their own clothing
and not to drink tea till the duty
thereon be repealed. They Mex
! hang and burn Lord North il
effgy and open as subscription fol
. the poor in Boston.
y A number of the '.mercantllt
gentlemen" solemnly declared
4 they would send off what tea they
had and would purchase no more
! Among these was certain join
a Parks. He, poor fellow, seems
not to have kept to this agree
ment, and so, on November 26
> was forced to Fgo with his hat of
y and lighted torches in his hand.
r. and set fire to the tea" which wal
p "consumed to ashes amongst the