Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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f Eng-lish goods were revived, and on every handthe declaration was unanimous that theAmericans would neither eat, drink, nor wearanything imported from England. The gen-eral court of Massachusetts issued a circularletter to the other colonial assemblies in-viting them to unite with her in measuresfor obtaining redress. The Colonies Strike Back. T-he English ministers were greatly in-censed at the new resistance of the colonists,and in June, 1768, ordered the general courtof Massachusetts to rescind its circular let-ter. Their demand was refused, and thegeneral court, led by James Otis and SamuelAdams, expressed its conviction that Parlia-ment would better serve the cause of peaceby repealing its obnoxious laws. The circu-lar had been favorably received by the othercolonies, and Massachusetts was constantlyreceiving from them encouragement to persistin her resistance to the tyranny of the minis-try. As a punishment for the refusal of thegeneral court to rescind its circular, that body
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342 BRITISH TROOPS IN BOSTON. CAUSES OF THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE. 343 was dissolved by the royal governor of Mas-sachusetts. Some of the other colonial as-semblies that had shown sympathy withMassachusetts were also dissolved by theirrespective governors. Opposition in Boston.A very bitter feeling existed between thepeople and the royal officials, and, to makematters worse, at this crisis the revenue offi-cers at Boston seized a schooner belongingto John Hancock, one of the patriot leaders,on the pretext that her owner had made afalse entry of her cargo, which consisted ofwine. The schooner was towed under theguns of the Romney frigate, and a crowdcollected in Boston and attacked the housesof the commissioners of customs, who wereforced to fly to the fort on Castle Island forsafety. The report of this outbreak was trans-mitted to England as proof that Massachu-/ setts was almost in a state of insurrection, and it was resolved by the ministry to sendtroops to overawe the insolent

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