The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-21
MESSAGE FROM ISYO.
Old Boston Paper Teens with Revolt,
and Tells of Massacre.

The bald, bare. cold statement of
events, as chronicled in text books of
history, may he read, reresd and
thought upon until their sequence ana
consequences are learned and appre-
dated. But many times knowledge of
chapters in the history of q country
may be acquired in one brief glance,
when around the events is clustered
some slight sugar coating of fiction,
or when, into those events, living
human element is introduced by read
ing their story in the writings of their
times, when action and accomplish
ment, not narration or instruction,
were the prime, sole objects of those
writings One may study the story of
the Revolutionary times in the United
States for hours and yet not learn the
movement and spirit of the time half
as we'll as he would by spending fif-
teen minutes in the reading of some
letter, newspaper or pamphlet pro-
duced during the years in which the
revolution was accomplished
An old copy of the Boston Gazette,
of the date March IL, 1910, that is
among the most valued possessions of
j. P. Holt, of Montpelier, SO vitslizes
events of that date, in and around
Boston, that the reader almost sees
them enacted before him, fairly feels
that he is an actor in them. This pa
per was found in an old attic in the
City of Boston by William Taylor,
who gave it to his sister, Mrs. n. A.
West, the latter giving it to her SON
inlaw, its present owner. The paper
is made up of four pages about one
fourth the size of page of the Jour-
nal. The first page bears its name,
1.-THE Boston Gazette and Country
Journal Containing the Freshest Adj
vices, Foreign and Domestic. - The
date line shows that the paper was is
sued, Monday. March IL, ITO.
The first page bears it's leading ar
ticle, a refutation of Tory doctrines and
arguments and an attack upon Tory,
couched in no uncertain English, as
the subjoined quotation proves: ga
writer in the Boston Chronicle, has
not only been charged, in direct terms,
but proved, by irresistible demonstra-
tion, guilty of impertinence, absurd
ity, sophistry and falsehood. That all
this has been done with fair argument
and good manners, the Bostonian
ought, with bushes, to concede. But
should that gentleman think such a
concession too great sacrifice to truth
and justice, it is then hoped that his
swered, will meet little attention and
less credit. For when such writer,
after such charges and such proofs,
continues to vapor and froth in futile
strain and indeterminate expressions
devoid of reason or excuse, he cannot
nationally hope even the countenance
of party. Such profound ignorance
of the laws and Constitution of our
government is displayed in the last
publications. signed. ga Bostonisn",
that it is very difficult to refrain from
expressions of contempt; such trifling
evasion and despicable arguments are
below serious combination, etc.
This page also contains accounts of
meetings held in Roxbury, Littleton
and Acton and other towns. A de-
scription of the meeting in Rox5ury is
typical of all the others: The meeting
was called "To know the minds of the
town, whether they will do anything
to strengthen the hands of the mer-
chants in their importation agree
ment." In brief the action of the
meeting was as follows: CD. Action
of the merchants commended and the
I patronage and all possible help prom
ised to those who would not import
taxed articles. (2). Hatred and abb
horrence for the merchants who still
imported was expressed and complete
boycott declared against them. (3).
| These latter merchants were enumer-
| ated by name, and action was taken
we're to be read at each annual town
meeting for all time, "that unborn
generations may know of their selfish
ness" etc.
Pages two and three contain a
graphic description of the clash that
occurred in Boston on March 3, ITO,
between the soldiers and the citizens
A strong arraignment of the Governor
and other officers OF the Grown, who
were responsible for the presence of
the troops, opens the story of the
tragedy. Graphically the wri ter Of
the article pictures the beginning Of
the trouble in the insolent bearing of
the soldiers, finally taking shape in
an unwarranted attack by soldier
upon fourteen year-old boy that end
ed in the massacre of five men and
the wounding of six others. The events
immediately subsequent to these MUIR
ders including the funerals of the