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Title: The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ..
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Richardson, Abby Sage, 1837-1900
Subjects: United States -- History
Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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I SONS OF LI BE RTY 1766 INDEPENDENCEoFo K COUNTRY sure you these were stirring times. 13 192 STORY OF OUR COUNTRY. In 1766 England repealed the stamp act. But before the rejoic-ing was over in America, she began again her encroachments on ourliberty. Sir Richard Grenville was out of office, and CharlesTownshend, who succeeded him, was determined the colonies shouldsubmit. By this time England began really to care more aboutmaking the colonies submit than she cared for the tax. It begannow to be a trial to see which should give in. The thing which most outraged Boston, about this time, was thefact that a large detachment of red-coated British soldiers were sentthere and quartered for a time in Faneuil Hall. That was toomuch to bear. They hated the soldiers, and it was a doubleoffense to put them in Faneuil Hall, where indignation meetingsabout the stamp act had been held. Already Faneuil Hall wascalled fondly The Cradle of Liberty.
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JT^ zg ;;M kiW^ The soldiers were hooted at and scouted at by the very boys inthe streets. I know they did not have a pleasant life of it. Atlength the hatred broke out in an open quarrel, and three citizens ofBoston were killed by the soldiers. This was called the BostonMassacre, and the public rage was hot against the soldiers. Even the children shared the general feeling, and were as patri-otic as their fathers and mothers. One winters day a party of boys MORE OPPRESSION. 193 were building a snow fort on Boston Common. Some idle soldiersstanding about, battered it down. As the boys had suffered fre-quent annoyance from the soldiers, they determined to go in a bodyto General Gage (who had been sent over to take Governor Hutchin-sons place), and complain of the way in which they had been treated.After they had laid their wrongs before the general, he said impa-tiently, Have your fathers been teaching you rebellion and sentyou here to show it ? Nobody sent us, sir, answered the boy wh

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