Chapter 2384 Tea Party Incident

On the afternoon of May 26th, Griffon Wharf, Green Dragon Tavern.

Adams read Faneuil Snow's reply in public, interrupted numerous times by roars from the audience.

In the tavern packed with "Sons of Liberty", people were furious and strongly demanded that Faneuil Snow be punished!

Adams threw away the newspaper, spread his hands, and declared helplessly in a stage-like exaggerated gesture:

"We have done our best to Mr. Snow, and let the people decide the next thing."

This sentence was like lighting a fuse. The crowd rushed out of the tavern, picked up the sticks they had prepared in advance, and rushed towards the warehouse of the Snow Firm on the pier in a threatening manner. Along the way, many sailors wandering the streets joined the mob. among the ranks.

Snow's partner, Clark Hatch, saw the turbulent crowd, and frantically urged his companions to close the warehouse door, and stood alone outside the door, trying to appease the frenzied crowd to calm down.

In response, a rain of clubs and fists knocked him to the ground.

The mob stormed the warehouse and stormed Faneuil Snow's office.

Faneuil Snow hurriedly greeted his companions and hid on the second floor of the warehouse.

Crowds smashed glass, broke into unattended offices, yelled, smashed everything that could be broken, and stormed the warehouse.

A consignee tries to shoot, but Faneuil stops him.

When the other party said that he just wanted to shoot into the sky as a warning to scare off the mob, and didn't really want to shoot and hurt people, Faneuil, who was familiar with the behavior of "Sons of Liberty", warned him not to be so naive.

"This is a trap, my friend! As long as we dare to shoot here, someone on the other side will be shot and fall down!"

"Even if you only shoot one shot, more than ten people will be shot and injured on the opposite side!"

"Facing this group of shameless people, no matter how much you justify, it's useless. In the end, all these bloody crimes will be planted on our heads, and we will never be able to clear our charges!"

At the moment when the warehouse gate was about to be breached, fortunately Andrew Snow led the Mounted Police to arrive in time to disperse the mob and rescue Faneuil and others.

The tense situation continued until May 29, when the first cargo ship "Beaver" carrying tea entered the port, tugging at the heartstrings of both sides.

In the evening of that day, the "Sons of Liberty" came to the Green Dragon Tavern for a party again, and this time they were going to make a big news!

Adams stood up again, delivered an impassioned speech, and finally concluded with this passage:

"We have done everything we can to save the colony. The next step is to see the decision of the people. The law cannot judge the people. No matter what happens, the consequences will be borne by the tyrants, bureaucrats and their lackeys!"

When Adams finished speaking, the tavern erupted in a frenzy of yelling and whistles that could be heard three blocks away.

Not long after, someone saw a group of young people rushing out of the tavern. They painted their faces, put feathers on their heads, and wore cloaks. They dressed up like a group of Asa hunting in the jungle, and rushed towards the "Beaver" with sticks, knives and guns. "The Griffin Wharf where the tea ship is moored.

The tavern is less than half a mile away from the pier and the tea boat.

Thousands of spectators watched their action, and the number of dock raiders ranged from 100 to 150.

Some of them stood guard on the shore with guns, and the rest of them rushed onto the deck of the "Beaver" and roughly pushed away the customs officials who came to dissuade them, warning them that they would shoot if they didn't get away.

The thugs smashed the hatch, got into the warehouse, skillfully set up a winch, and pulled up the container containing tea with a block of pulleys.

Each case of tea weighed at least 335 pounds, and the better teas came in small wooden boxes, but even then those small wooden boxes weighed 70 to 80 pounds each.

To get all the tea out of the ship, to dig open the cargo boxes and dump the tea into the harbour, requires long hours of high-intensity labor.

In the next three hours, the mob dumped all 342 boxes, totaling 90,000 pounds of tea, into the sea.

It was low tide and the water was very shallow, and the tea leaves poured into the bay spread out in long feathers and drifted south.

A line of small boats came from the shore, and some people sat on them. They tried to pick up the tea in the sea and take them home, but they were quickly "dissuaded" by gunshots from the pier.

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On the evening when the "tea party incident" happened, Joann had been revising the final version of "Niflheim's Introduction to Ecology, Society and Religion" at home, and did not finish reviewing the 200,000-word manuscript until early in the morning. Deliver it before the "dead line".

This paper will be published in the summer issue of "Alpha Exploration" within two weeks. If there is no accident, the score will break through the 90 mark.

Joan stayed up late to finish drafting, tired and dizzy, and the block where the residence is located is far away from the riotous Griffin Wharf. Although there were noises and several gunshots in the distance, there was no intense firefight afterwards. , It was just a fight between drunks on the pier, and I didn't take it to heart.

It wasn't until the next morning, when I received a letter from Rebecca, that I realized that there was a big commotion at the pier last night.

After breakfast, Joan was invited to the White House Manor to attend the weekend salon held by Rebecca. It is conceivable that the topic of discussion must be the hotly discussed "tea party event" in the city.

Joan walked into the living room and found that in addition to Rebecca and the Vassars, Thomas, Edward and Allen were also present, and the atmosphere in the living room was a bit depressing.

In Joan's circle of friends, Rebecca and Allen, the two people who are usually the most keen to discuss political events and whose views are always tit for tat, seem unusually silent today.

Rebecca's expression was very subtle, as if she was deliberately reserved, but also seemed to be suppressing her anger.

In fact, she doesn't need to say anything more about this violent incident. What she wants to say has been predicted in advance. The riots that happened last night are nothing more than another test of her foresight. She doesn't need to emphasize this point personally. Everyone here knows it well. bright.

Allen's mood was a mixture of frustration and embarrassment.

As a supporter of the Radicals, a supporter of the Sons of Liberty, he defended with all his fervor what the Sons of Liberty had done throughout the tax campaign, a young man who sincerely believed that he and his comrades Based on great and lofty ideals, they seek freedom and equality for the masses, and rise up to fight against the stubborn and corrupt "royalists".

Even in the later stages of this political movement, violent acts of radicals emerged in an endless stream, even though Allen himself neither participated in nor agreed with those violent acts that repeatedly broke the bottom line, publicly humiliated and even executed those who disagreed with his political views, but he still sincerely In defense of comrades, insisting that individual incidents of violence cannot deny the justice of this struggle.

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Historical materials: the real tea party incident ("Jefferson Biography" (US) Joseph J. Ellis)

The same is true of Jefferson's decoration of the Boston Tea Party in "A Survey of Rights in British America".

In Jefferson's pen, a gang of loyal Bostonians risked arrest and prosecution to destroy a shipment of contraband.

Samuel Adams, one of the protagonists of the Continental Congress and the main organizer of the Boston Tea Party, must have smiled knowingly.

Because he knew that these so-called "loyal Bostonians" were actually a group of hooligans and saboteurs who had disguised themselves as Indians in order not to be recognized.

They had the tacit support of Boston merchants, many of whom had made fortunes in smuggling.

Samuel Adams realized that the Tea Party was a well-orchestrated revolutionary drama.

Jefferson described it as a spontaneous patriotic movement according to the rules of the "Tea Party". Perhaps this was again out of the need for political propaganda, and Jefferson made such an evaluation, just like the tea party itself, it was carefully planned.

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