On this day 250 years ago, an article written by “Junius Brutus” in the South Carolina Gazette warned Carolinians that the Tea Act enacted by Parliament would “establish a precedent for subjugating you to future impositions equally unjust and impolitic- to raise a revenue out of your pockets, against your consent- and to render assemblies of your representatives totally useless.”

Source: https://sc250charleston.org/the-charleston-tea-party-protest/