Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-07
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL y. COLLINS.

taxation without representation has
been greatly overemphasized The stamp
act was repealed in l766-ten years be-
Tore the Boston tea party"-hut Bos-
tonians had not found that out yet.
when the Declaration Of Independence
was signed. or else they confused it
with the Townshend tax on imports Of
tea. which was taken advantage Of by
the stupid colonists who dropped annual
imports from 1885 COO pounds in 17Ss
to only $4,000 pounds in 1853. i've
years before the Revolution. Agitators
caused that act Of rebellion
The leaders in the opposition 70
imported stamped tea were Boston tea
Observation-Disclosures competitors Of Brit
ish shippers. The act Of throwing over
board $4,000 worth Of tea was de
strtction OF private property On the
part OF the participants" The more
moderate element in Boston wanted the
tea paid for and the action repudiated."
That Is Just ike it is now. when Eu-
ropean holders Of bonds of the South
ern Confederacy are clarnorirg for Con-
gress TO redeem tbs bonds.
So Great Britain IN i7Ti passed i've
punitive acts: Close the port Of Boston
until that tea bin is collected: reyise
the charter OF Massachusetts,: send TO
England for trial and punishment al
colonial agents accused Of violence IN
the execution Of their t'utieS; station
soldiers in Boston and annex to Que
bee all territory between the Ohio River
and the Great Lakes.
Does not that show how tust was
George MP The new history CON-
mentS. These acts were all legal
The tenth cause Of the Revolution
was movement 10 have an Episcopal
bishop. who would be appointed in Eng
land. come and reign over the colo
nists churches Blu. the man who wrote
the Declaration OF Independence was
not in the Episcopal Church and fcrycs
70 put that II the Declaration.
49,
OF course. any country which owed
its birth 10 such mistaken opposition
To the mother country woald always 20
wrong thereafter England never in
pressed e.eiT American sailors rs
President Madison said. causing our
war o. lSl2-Shs took only about > 90,
What are 1000 men between friends
Great Britain took the position that
the United States was acting as a har-
Dor for her deSerterS from the British
navy and merchant ships and that.
therefore. the search Was warranted as
defensive measure" So saws this
scientific historian. and ~ IL Is 20 Be
taught IN the Atlantic Christian Co.,
leee--aud elsewhere.
Besides, s..Sny Americans wanted 80
annex Canada. that made the EsaSssSA
Jealous Tom jefferson. Ben rrarknn
ana @, Washington were outSpcksn
IN tnas tncspient conspiracy. They
talSea As though that were our ~mAni-
fest destiny" and later the movement
grew conspicuous IN 1919 and IL. Ram
dolah Of Virginia. in 1874 declared On
the rcor ~ Congress: Ever since tie
report OF the committee on foreign re-
latsonS came into the House. we have
heard but one word-hke the whip
p<sor-wsu With but ere eternal usax,Ssf-
eaees nuae-:~Ssanada, Canadas Can
ada
Does no, that prove how wrcax we
were 10 pat ous the ftre whea the Britt
sSh burned the White HcssSe and hNo,ea
me Capital, Our War o. isis-new
Later, see how President Nadiscn
and Secretary ct State Mcnr>e acted
about Florida and TexaS--ploiiing ~
stir w revclt IN Nth states ~ We cSas,ld
sFSo more territory, The author hacks
up his exposure Nv quoting that tsvrrt,s
IN his The United stats az America
fhrossgh the Csyli War; THE war es
1879 waS etsnSer, II WAS annee<S-
sary, tasseasic. unt,me.y ard rash
,tothetwise, perhapS AL txA,n 80
tell thas - the Marines and CUR
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historian Hamisa reessnd$ M tia,
That war MAS u,s,>lSssfsea because ne
kfieiish CRITTERS IN Council Ire aneSed
vStSe ~ tire MAR, we've repealed me
DAYS after the war MAS DECLARED. and
eetote news az It's dscsc rattcN had
reached England ~ IL Mas AnotAer
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