Chapter 4:
Massachusetts Appoints the time and place for a general congress.June, 1774.
on the first day of June, Hutchinson embarked forChap. IV.} 1774. June 1. |
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England; and as the clocks in the Boston belfries finished striking twelve, the blockade of the harbor began.
The inhabitants of the town were chiefly traders, shipwrights, and sailors; and since no anchor could be weighed, no sail unfurled, no vessel so much as launched from the stocks, their cheerful industry was at an end. No more are they to lay the keel of the fleet merchantman, or shape the rib symmetrically for its frame, or strengthen the graceful hull by knees of oak, or rig the well proportioned masts, or bend the sails to the yards.
The king of that country has changed the busy workshops into scenes of compulsory idleness, and the most skilful naval artisans in the world, with the keenest eye for forms of beauty and speed, are forced by act of parliament to fold their hands.
Want scowled on the laborer, as he sat with his wife and
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