'^It will not be out of place, in this connection, to state the fact that Boston could have averted all the evils ascribed to the Boston Port-Bill, by paying for what some of her lawless inhabitants had destroyed-- as property destroyed by mobs, in o»r day, must be paid for by the County in which it is destroj'ed, as .\lleghany-county, Pennsylvania, sorrowfully knows, as one of the several resulta of the notable " Pittsburg Riots" of 1877. She was evidently inclined to do so, in the beginning; but she was counselled by the Caucus of Town Committees, prompted by .loseph Warren, not to do so ; and the Committee of Correspondence at Philadelphia subsequently urged her to pay, without success. As will be seen, in another part of this Chapter, however, the infliction of the Boston Port- Bill was a pecuniary advantage to that Town ; and it is not imjKissible that it was foreseen, at that time, that a payment for the Tea which had been destroyed by one ot her mobs, would deprive the Town of all the pecuniary advantages to be derived from a refusal to do so.

What wonderful results, arising from that refusal to pay for what a mob had destroyed, have been seen, throughout the wurld, from that day to this.

THE AMERICAN llEVOLUTION, 1774-1783.

deprived of their usual means of support, were diverted from the particuhir purposes for which they had been contributed, and employed, instead, for the particular benefit of Boston's tax-payers, in relieving them from the neces-ity of levying an unusual Poortax for the relief of the more than usually large number of those who were willing to live on charity ; and in " cleaning Docks, making Dykes, new laying "of old Pavements in the public streets, etc." -- all of them " public concerns, of no advantage to any in- " dividual, any further than as a member of the " community to which he or she belonged.