is there in making a clamour about this small branch of the
revenue, whilst we silently pass over the articles of sugar, molasses
and rum, from which more than three-fourths of the American revenue has
and always will arise, and when the Act of Parliament imposing duties on
these articles stands on the same footing as that respecting tea, and
the moneys collected from them are applied to the same purposes? Many of
us complain of the Tea Act, not only as it affects our liberties, but as
it affects our purses, by draining us annually of a large sum of money.
But if it be considered that by this step the East India Company have
taken of sending their tea to market themselves at their own cost, and
the saving that is thereby made to the merchants here of commissions,
freight and charges of importing it, which will be equal to the whole
annual tax that has yet been paid, it must silence that complaint." "Z."

[43] Nathaniel Hatch, of Dorchester, graduated at Harvard University, in
1742, and subsequently held the office of Clerk of the Courts. He
accompanied the British troops to Halifax, in 1776; was proscribed and
banished in 1778, and in 1779 was included in the Conspiracy Act, by
which his estate was confiscated. He died in 1780.

[44] The proposition to burn the tea is referred to by Wyeth. See ante
p. LXXI.

[45] This letter, with all its extravagance and exaggeration,
undoubtedly expresses the popular feeling, the public sentiment of the
time. It is easy to see from its style, as well as from the sentiments
it contains, that it could have emanated from none of the popular
leaders. These, however strongly they felt in relation to ministerial
aggression, were, though direct and forcible in their utterances,
invariably discreet and temperate in their tone and language.

[46] Benjamin Faneuil, Jr., was the son of Benjamin, a merchant of
Boston, (born, 1701; died, 1785. [Symbol: dagger]) and a nephew of Peter
Faneuil, to whom Boston is indebted for her "Cradle of Liberty." His
place of business was in Butler's Row, and he resided in the Faneuil
mansion, on Tremont Street. Before the building of Quincy Market and
South Market Street, Butler's Row entered Merchants Row, between Chatham
and State Streets. With the other tea consignees, Faneuil fled to the
Castle, in Boston harbor, November 30, 1773, and being a loyalist, went
to Halifax, when Boston was evacuated, in March, 1776. In the following
spring he was in London, a