The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-22
x THE EVENING STARS TWO PAGE NJ
CAPSULE No. 10.

CAPSULE I. II. f."
49, URING me years which Immediately preceded the War of the Reyou-
ton New Jersey "a a very oval province. In considering his assets
King George could put his pudgy finger on the map If this domain and
leave it there for quite a while in perfect conentment Newark was loyal with
the remainder of he province and with good cause For on reason another
the town had always been rehed with a great deal of consideration. When
ever they had occasion, Newarkers could be a jealous of their rights as Bos-
tonians, ~ they were fortunate in having a modest unassuming, wsI-behavea
sci. of rights. when. however, the caimso of som of the other provinces that
they we're being ground under the heel Q the yrant seemed to De subsantatel
by the Boston port bill, Newark, though not actively concerned, vas the first
town in the rovn Ito put itself on record a being or the side of liberty
When in l4 chief Justice smyth, in charging thu grand jury, said: The
imaginary tyranny three thousand miles away is less to De feared and guarded
against than the tyranny at our doors Foreman uzal Ward is said to Fave
come bach quick with a reply which would adorh m sixth reader in the land:
1t ran:
NO bias of sefinterest 10 fawning servHfy to thosem power. no hope If
future preferment would induce an "a to lend his helping hand to the n
natural and daboncal work Of rveing chains forging for them at a distance Of
three thousand miles"
1t matters not how long Mr. Ward had been waiting for ar opportunity to
get that speech tut of his system, it fitted inoth h situation and made splendid
reading in that early day for those who could understand it,
When word came that Bosons trouble with the king fsa@reached' a crisis
acute and distressing. it val Newark that aroused the province to action CIV
ernor Franklin refused to call session of tn Colonial Legislature to choose
own account. called a meeting in the Court House, then in Broad streetn the
Branford place of today. The minutes # this meeting have been destroyed. but
it was n enthusiastic m AM the mn who had been appointed by the chair
to fill the place of corresponding secretary vas instructed to send nut circulars
to al the counties in the province calling n the people to snd delegates to a
convention to be held in New Brunswick July q. IVA At this convention dele
gates to the first Continental Congress were chosen.
About this time thu impasioned uttgances Of ne Rev Alexander lac
whoterf from te pulpit OF he frs Church against tyranny ii general Inc thu
British brand in particular, caused him I o get himself very much dishked b. ths
representatives of george Ill in this vicinity. Following a wen-founded rumor
that a merry band IF English soldiers lin New York were rehearAng a one-aot
playlet entitled "shot at Sunrise" and would endeavor to get him to accept tho
leading role. this militant pastor left the own huriedfy. One historian has said
that the arrival in Newark of h Rev Alexander MacWhoter was the most
important event in local history during the fifteen years which preceded the
wa. lie vas accustomed to steal back to his nome whenever he thought 1t
sae. and or several occasions narrowly missed beng in when a number II the
walking delegates of the loyal legion in rec suits happened over from New York.