the women waved their handkerchiefs, exclaiming words of 
praise. Here and there, those who never saw or heard Cris- 
pus Attucks before, looked at and listened to him spellbound, 
thinking that God had sent him to Boston, sent him there 
with a divine mission to accomplish. Here he continued speak- 
ing with the profoundity of a philosopher, the eloquencs of 
an orator, and the passionate articulations of a revolutionist, 
causing the auditors to draw closer, listening to every word 
that came from his mouth, a mouth from which came ideas, 
thoughts, truths, imaginations, all which finally made him be 
taken into the arms of the revolutionary crowd. 
Upon being released from the crowd, Attucks said: 
“Come on, you sons and daughters of liberty! Follow me!” 
“We are with you, comrade!” exclaimed Gray. 
“We surely are!” ejaculated Maverick. 
“And so are we!” came from every mouth of the emational 
crowd. 
Hereupon the liberty-loving multitude moved like a storm, 
going through Broadway and the Bowery where a liberty pole 
was erected, strongly guarded by iron bands and bars being 
deeply sunk into the earth, having this inscription thereon: 
Liberty and Property. 
“Citizens!” exclaimed Attucks, as he placed his fand on 
the Liberty pole, “this pole of freedom recalls to me the brave 
name of MacDougall, the son of a devout Presbyterisn of the 
Scottish isle of Ila, a man who had made a fortune a; a sailor, 
he who himself cultivated his mind, courageous and fiery, yet 
methodical and self-possessed. This man, MacDougall, in 
consequence of his appeal to the people against the concession 
of the Assembly, which voted supplies to the troops, was in- 
dicted for libel. Hence, this first son of liberty, upon refus- 
ing to give bail, was visited by such throngs in his prison, that 
€ was obliged to appoint hours for their reception. Let us 
es our heads in the deepest respect for this eternal son of 
iDerty. 
“You inhabitants of Boston, listen to me, hear what I have 
to say concerning contemporary history. The determination 
to keep from paying the Parliament’s taxes has spread into 
every social circle, whereupon, within one week, three hundred 
wives of this city, within two weeks, a hundred and ten more, 
with one hundred and twenty-six of the young and unmarried 
of their sex, 
have renounced the use of tea till the Revenue 
Acts shall be repealed. This being the case, aS our enemy, 
the soldiers of the English, parade with their twelve rounds 
of ball, and while Hutchinson is destroying our town meet- 
ings, we do resolve to fight to the last, fight until death. For, 
dear citizens, when I relate to you the case of Theophilus 
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