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

1 Proceedings of the Meeting^ in Force's jlmericaK Archives, Fourth Series, i., 331, and in Dawson's The Park iiml iU Vicinity, 32.

See, also, Letter from Thomas Young to John Lamb, " Boston, May 13, " 1774 ;" Holt's Sew-York Journal, Xo. 1037, New-York, Tliursday, May 19, 1774 ; Itirimjlon's New-York Gazetteer, No. 57, New-Yokk, Thursday, May 1!), 1774; G&ine's Xcic- York Gazette and Mercury, No. 1178, New- York, Monday, May 23, 1774 ; Lieutenanl-gooernor Colden to Governor I^ j^on, " SrRi.NO Hill 31st May, 1774 ; " the same to the Earl of Dartmouth, " New-Y'oiik 1st June, 1774 ; " Annual Kegister for 1775, 4 ; History of the War in America, Dublin: 177!), i., 19, 20 ; Andrews' History of the War Kith America, Loudon : 1785, i., 134 ; Gordon's History of the American Revolution, London: 1788, i., 31)1; Ramsey's History of the American lievolulion, London: 1791, i., 1'.2 ; .Stedman's History of the American War, London: 1794, i., 93 ; Adolphus's History of England, hondon : 181)."), ii., 122, 123 ; "Paul Allen's" History of the American Revolution, Baltimore, 1822, i., 181 ; Morse's AnnaU r./ the American Revolution, Hartford : 1824, 179, 18i>; Pitkin's History of the United States, New Haven : 1828, i., 270 ; Gralianie's History of the I'niled States, London : 1830, iv., 347, 348 ; Hildreth s History of the United States, New Y'ork : 1856, First Series, iii.,34; Leake's Jl/emo/r of General John Lamb, Albany: 1857, 84-86; Lossing's Seventeen hundred and seventy-slf.