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[STAMP ACT]. The Boston Post-Boy, &c. Extraordinary. No. 429. Monday, November 4, 1765. [Boston: John Green and Joseph Russell, 1765].
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[STAMP ACT]. The Boston Post-Boy, &c. Extraordinary. No. 429. Monday, November 4, 1765. [Boston: John Green and Joseph Russell, 1765].
Folio (13 3/8 x 7½ in.), deckle edges of the sheet preserved on three sides, even light browning.
PROLOGUE TO REVOLUTION: BOSTON PROTESTS THE STAMP ACT AT THE LIBERTY TREE
The Stamp Act was enacted by a revenue-starved Parliament during the premiership of George Grenville in March 1765, to go into effect on 1 November. It levied taxes on a range of printed matter including newspapers, broadsides, handbills legal documents and playing cards. As soon as this--the first direct tax ever levied in America--was announced, resistence began to coalesce, under the banner of "no taxation wthout representation."
A grand demonstration was planned by Boston's Sons of Liberty for November 1, and the present news extra gives a detailed account of the event, which took place at the Liberty Tree. On a day "detested for the boldest attempts to invade the Rights of Britons," a "most remarkable portrait" of George Grenville and another of John Huske (believed to be an instigator) were hung from the tree with satirical verses affixed (quoted in full here). Bells tolled, conch shells were sounded, most shops stayed closed, "ships in the harbor hoisted half-mast high, in Token of Lamentation and Mourning." Then "a vast concourse of people repaired to the Royal Elm, some with weeds in their hats, others with down-cast eyes..." At 3:00 o'clock, some 3,000 people followed the portraits, in a tumbrel, to the gallows, where "the justly inflamed multitude" rent them "into a thousand Fragments and dispersed them on the Aire; where it is hoped no creating power will collect them into being again...while Right and Property have Name and Respect among the Sons of Men." Additional reports of demonstrations in Philadelphia and New York are appended. On this demonstration see E. & H. Morgan, The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution, p.173).
Folio (13 3/8 x 7½ in.), deckle edges of the sheet preserved on three sides, even light browning.
PROLOGUE TO REVOLUTION: BOSTON PROTESTS THE STAMP ACT AT THE LIBERTY TREE
The Stamp Act was enacted by a revenue-starved Parliament during the premiership of George Grenville in March 1765, to go into effect on 1 November. It levied taxes on a range of printed matter including newspapers, broadsides, handbills legal documents and playing cards. As soon as this--the first direct tax ever levied in America--was announced, resistence began to coalesce, under the banner of "no taxation wthout representation."
A grand demonstration was planned by Boston's Sons of Liberty for November 1, and the present news extra gives a detailed account of the event, which took place at the Liberty Tree. On a day "detested for the boldest attempts to invade the Rights of Britons," a "most remarkable portrait" of George Grenville and another of John Huske (believed to be an instigator) were hung from the tree with satirical verses affixed (quoted in full here). Bells tolled, conch shells were sounded, most shops stayed closed, "ships in the harbor hoisted half-mast high, in Token of Lamentation and Mourning." Then "a vast concourse of people repaired to the Royal Elm, some with weeds in their hats, others with down-cast eyes..." At 3:00 o'clock, some 3,000 people followed the portraits, in a tumbrel, to the gallows, where "the justly inflamed multitude" rent them "into a thousand Fragments and dispersed them on the Aire; where it is hoped no creating power will collect them into being again...while Right and Property have Name and Respect among the Sons of Men." Additional reports of demonstrations in Philadelphia and New York are appended. On this demonstration see E. & H. Morgan, The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution, p.173).