On this day 250 years ago the Boston Committee of Correspondence issued a joint letter with the committees of correspondence of the towns in the vicinity of Boston that proclaimed:
Our rights have been for several years invaded by cruel and remorseless enemies; sometimes they have acted with open violence, at other times they have endeavoured by wicked artifice to undermine our constitution. Our fears are now excited by the expectation of the immediate arrival of the tea shipped for the port of Boston, on account of the East India company, the landing and selling of which must be attended with consequences the most fatal to our liberties.
On This Day In The Revolution 