This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...forbidding the landing of any goods in the city. The people revenged themselves by resolving to trade no more with England. 8. In September, 1774, delegates from eleven of the thirteen colonies met at Philadelphia. They drew up a Declaration of Bights, and sent a petition for justice to the king of England. This was ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...forbidding the landing of any goods in the city. The people revenged themselves by resolving to trade no more with England. 8. In September, 1774, delegates from eleven of the thirteen colonies met at Philadelphia. They drew up a Declaration of Bights, and sent a petition for justice to the king of England. This was the First General Congress of the American colonies. 5, 6. Narrate the story of the Boston Tea-party. 1. What of the Boaton Port Bill? 8. The First General Congress? CHAPTER XLV.--THE THIRTEEN COLONIES--Continued. Tlie Boston Boys and General Gage. 1. I MUST here tell you an anecdote, to show you how the boys of this period caught the spirit of liberty from their fathers. There was in Boston, as there still is, a beautiful green space called the Common, and in it a small sheet of water. Here, in winter, the boys used to skate and build snow-houses. 2. The British soldiers amused themselves by beating down these houses. The boys built them up again, and the soldiers again destroyed them. The boys complained to the captain, who only laughed at them, and the men became more troublesome than ever. 3. At last, the biggest boys appealed to the commander-in-chief, General Gage. "We come, sir," said the oldest of them, "to demand satisfaction." "What," said General Gage, " have your fathers been teaching you rebellion, and have you come to exhibit it here?" 4. " Nobody sent us," replied the boy. " We have never injured your troops; but they have trodden down our snow-hills, and broken the ice upon our skatingground. We complained, and they told us to help ourselves if we could. Yesterday our works were destroyed the third time, and we will bear it no longer." 5. General Gage, admiring the spiri...
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