On this day 250 years ago in Massachusetts, the Essex Gazette reported that
Yesterday a Vessel arriv’d at Marblehead from Falmouth, in which, London Papers were brought to the 12th of December, which were immediately sent to the Committee of Correspondence of this Town, containing
the King’s speech of November 30, 1774 and related actions in the British Parliament rejecting the Colonies’ pleas for repeal of the Intolerable Acts. The Essex Gazette copied the texts of the King’s speech and related actions in Parliament from the broadside printed in Providence including the broadside’s commentary that:
Thus it appears that the continued and anxious Suspence of the Colonies is at an End. With what Solicitude did we wait for and expect Relief from the Wisdom, and Justice of this new Parliament? And how fatally we are disappointed must appear from their Resolution to proceed without the necessary Means of Information in a Matter of such infinite Importance as the Preservation of America. Good GOD! What Spirit of Folly and Precipitation presides in the British Councils!—The Dye seems to be cast—the Fortitude, the Wisdom, and the Virtue of Americans, with a firm Confidence in the Assistance of that Divine Being, whoever vindicates the Cause of the Oppressed, are now our only Resources—May the united Colonies be directed to such Measures, as will eventually terminate in the defeat of Tyrants, and the Redemption of this devoted Country.
On This Day In The Revolution 