1 The MassuchmelUi GtizeUe of Thursday, May 12, 1774, printed the text of the ISostoii Port-bill, in full, with the following heading : " Tues- " day arrived here Captain Shayler, in a Brig from London, who brought "the most interesting and important Advices that ever was received at "the Port of Boston."'

See, also, Bancroft's Hiftory of the I'niled Stales, original edition, vii., 34 ; the «<ime, centenary edition, iv., 321 ; Frothingbam's Bite of the liepuUk, 3U0 ; etc.

• Bancroft's History of the I'liihd SttUet, original edition, vii., 35 ; IIik tame, centenary edition, iv., 321 ; Frothingbam's Rite of llie Ilepublif, .iA.

S Bancroft's History of the VuUed SUiles, original edition, vii., 3o-37 ; the tame, centenary edition, iv., 321-.)2;) ; Frothingbam's h'lf of the Republic, 321, etc.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

■" the Act for blocking up this Harbour be repealed, " the same will prove the Salvation of North America ■" and her Liberties. On the other hand, if they con- " tinue their Exports and Imports, there is high reason ■" to fear that Fraud, Power, and the most odious Oppression will rise, triumphant, over Right, Justice, " Social Happiness, and Freedom." It was also " Ordered, that this Vote be forthwith transmitted by ^' the Moderator to all our sister Colonies, in the " Name and Behalf of the Town."

It will be seen, in these faithful statements of the •doings of the leaders of the revolutionary party and of the doings of the revolutionary party, itself, in Boston, in May, 177-1, that Massachusetts-men, there and at that time, recognized the existence of no orievance whatever, in any of the Colonies, except that which had been inflicted on Boston, in the passage of the Boston Port-Bill ; that they elevated that local grievance, which had been inflicted only as a penalty for local off'ences against existing Statutes, to the level of that general Stamj)-Act, wliich had been inflicted on every Colonist, throughout the entire Continent, not as a penalty for wrong doing, but as a general Tax, levied only for the increase of the national Revenue ; that they considered that a general determination, by all the Colonies, from Nova Scotia to Florida, to hold no commercial intercourse whatever with the Mother Country and with all the West Indian Colonies, foreign as well as British, was necessary for the protection of the delinquent Town from the threatened consequences of its ])ersistent violation of the Laws of the Nation ; that they arrogantly assumed that general action of all the Colonies must be taken, uniformly, in a distinct and clearly defined line, which those Massachusetts-men