The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-06
RELICS OF The REVOLUTION.

RELICS OF THE REVOLUTION.
| Congress had just adopted the resoIu-
ton forbidding the use of tea by Arneri-
cans. Or March /. 1775, the Pennsylvania
Journal printed the following petition
which abounds in fine humor:
The petition of divers OLD WOMEN
of the city OF Philadelphia, hunbly
sheweth: That your petitioners, az well
as spiEsters as married, having been
long accustomed to the drinking of tea
fear il viii be uttefabiy impossible for
them TO exhibit so much patriotism as 70
wholly disuse il. Your petitioners beg
leave tc observe that. having done az
ready all possible injury to their nerves
and health with this deiectabie herb. they
| shall think IT extremely hard not TO en-
joy it for the remainder of their lives
Your petitioners would further represent
that coffee and chocolate. or any other
| substitute hitherto proposed, they humbly
apprehend from their heaviEess, must de-
! stroy that brilliancy OF fancy. and H,l-
| ency OF expression. usually found 1T tea
| tables. when they are handling the con-
duct Of their absent acGua.ntances- Your
| petitioners are also informed. there are
| several old women OF the other sex la
boring under like difficulties, who APP
prehend the above restriction will be
| wholly insupportabie and that IL is sac
rifice Infinitely too great to be made to
! save the lives, the liberties, and privi-
leses of any country whatever. Your pc
titioners therefore humbly pray the prem
ises may be taken into serious considera-
! ton, and that they may be excepted from
the resolution adopted by the late con-
| gress, wherein your petitioners conceive
| they were mot represented; moro espe-
| ctaly as Your petitioners only pray for
| an Indulgence to those spinsters whom
age or ugliness have rendered desperate
in the expectation OF husbands: those of
the married, where infrmities and ii.
behavior have made their husbands long
| since tired Of them, and those all women
of the male gender who win most natu-
rally be found in such company"
| The Virginia Gazette OF June 10. l175,
said
"A correspondent gives the following
| etymology of the word Yankee: When
| the New England colonies were first set
| tied, the inha bitants were obliged to fight
| their way against many nations of In
dams. They found but little difficulty
ir subduing them all. except one tribe
who were known by the name of
Yankoos. which signifies invincible. Az
| ter much waste of blood and treasure.
| the YarfSoos were at last subdued by the
| New England men. The remains of this
nation (agreeably to the Indian custom)
ors. For q while they were called Yam
koos, but from corruption, common to
all languages. they got through time
the name of Yankees. A name which We
hope will soon be equal to that of a
Roman, or AN ancient Engiishman- p"
A storm of thunder and lightning that
occurred on the day that Howe, Clinton
and Burgoyne embarked from England to
crlSh America IN o.
lines, which were published under the
signature CT Hamden. in the Pennsyl-
vania Packet:
The chiefs embark and clouds involve
the sky,
Storms sweep the seas and blusterous
winds arise;
The Heavens themselves, red with I'M
Their thunders hurl, and flash indignant
fire.
Oh, Thou, who rules the earth and guides
the flood.
Have mercy on the innocent and good.
OH spare the land and let Thy vengeance
fall,
On those who dare whole nations to en-
thrall;
Send Thy own thunders on the guilty
head.
And to appease Thy wrath, strike the
vile monsters dead.
But, oh. restrain the hand of civil war.
Establish firm the Americans rights and
laws,
And may this land resound with their
applause;
Then shall our vows in all Thy temples
And praise ascend in incense to the
skies.
The New York Journal OF February 3.
11.5 relates that some gentlemen were
dining together at house in New York,
and in the course of the conversation one
of the company frequently used the word
Tory. The gentleman at whose house
they dined asked him. Pray. Mr.. -.
what is Tory?'' He replied: "A Tory is
a thing whose head is in England and
its body in America, and its neck ought to
be stretched"
The method used in New York in the
spring of 1175 to post up inhammatory
hand-bills, was the same used in England
at the time of the Pretender. 1t was
done by man who carried a little boy
il a box like a magic lantern. and while
he leaned against the wall, as If to rest
himself, the boy drew back the slide
pasted on the paper. and shutting HIM
self up again, the man took the proper
occasion to walk of to another resting
place.
The New York Gazette of March q
gives this realistic account of severe
treatment of tar and feathers: ION or
about March 10. a certain yrns. young
man lately from England, who has acted
in the capacity of tax-gatherer. near
Georgetown. Penn, but who lately sold
his commission, and probably spent the
money. stopped two wagons. on their way
from Duck Greek, Cross Roads, to the
head of Chester, and seized them as for
feited to the king, for reasons best known
to himself, and made their drivers fol-
low him with them TO Downe's tavern.
Stepping in there to get a drink. he
presently came out. and missing the
wagons, pushed after. soon overlook them
and was returning, when several young
men met him. Knocked up his heels. and
then took his gun. laid II in the road. and
made the wagons drive over il twice or
thrice. till they had rendered IL entirely
useless. They then tied q grapevine. pro-
vided for that purpose. about his neck
and dragged him 10 a mill. not far dis |
tant, where they primed him over
little. not having suliicient qua nifty OF |
varnish to give MIN a complete gloss |
then gently sprinkling the feathers Of an
odd pillow over that, they Jed him into |
Georgetown. where they drenched him !
with Newberry rum and water. taken I
from a duck hole. until il began 10 work !
unpleasantly. They I.4en led him like a |
victim. unto dock-hole, where they |
launched him in with such swiftness tina; /
the other shore brought him up In this !
situation they had him some time: at /
last they made him fast wits a grapevine I
and brought him tn q confession lie I
damned ute. North. and all the.- brethren 1
and followers. and said that the Arferi- /
cans We're q generous. spirited and much 1
injured people. They then gave him q I