On this day 250 years ago, the Pennsylvania Journal published “To His Fellow Countrymen: On Patriotism” written by Benjamin Rush under the pseudonym “Hamden”. Rush wrote:

 “we are informed that vessels were freighted to bring over a quantity of tea . . . to raise a revenue from America. Should it be landed . . . then farewell America Liberty! We are undone Forever. All the images we can borrow from everything terrible in nature are too faint to describe the horror of our situation. . . . Let us with one heart and hand oppose the landing of it. The baneful chests contain in them a slow poison in a political as well as physical sense. They contain something worse than death—the seeds of Slavery.”

Source: https://allthingsliberty.com/2019/01/resolutions-shared-by-two-towns-300-miles-apart/