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Updated: May 8, 2025
A mob of young men, disguised as Indians, went on board three vessels in Boston Harbor, and threw overboard their freight of tea . Before, there had been outbreakings of popular wrath against the stamp-officers. Their houses had been sometimes attacked: they had been burnt in effigy, and in some cases driven to resign. In general, however, the methods of resistance had been legal and orderly.
Such Americans were, in the inevitable struggle, truly martyrs to their beliefs. "The cause is not worth dying for," said Ingersoll, facing the Connecticut farmers, and spoke the sentiment of all the stamp-officers who resigned their positions at the demand of the people. The cause, however, did seem worth working for.
But the act, passed in February, 1765, was not to go into effect until November. Before that date, much could be done. What was done came from the lower as well as the upper classes. The people acted promptly. One colony after another sent crowds to those who had accepted, in advance, the positions of stamp-officers.
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