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...committee's president: "Thus we destroy even the shadow of that King who refused to reign over a free people." In small towns like Easton, Pennsylvania, crowds gathered at local courthouses and greeted a reading of the Declaration with three loud huzzas. John Adams wrote to Maryland's Samuel Chase: "You will see by this post that the river is passed and the bridge cut away...
...time had come. In the 15 months since Lexington and Concord, the colonial psychology has changed profoundly. Radicals like Boston's Samuel Adams and other revolutionary leaders played a canny waiting game, delaying the call for outright independence until popular sentiment clearly swung away from King George and reconciliation. The radicals declared until nearly the last moment that the Colonists wanted only their rights within the British Empire, thus denying the Tories the chance to brand them as extremists who were misleading the people. Counseled Sam Adams: "Wait till the fruit is ripe before we gather...
...Club, Hancock drank and debated with Attorney James Otis Jr., who first argued in court in 1761 against the constitutionality of general search warrants known as writs of assistance (John Adams believes that "American independence was then and there born"). At a Masonic lodge, Hancock encountered both Otis and Samuel Adams, an inept businessman but master polemicist and organizer of the Sons of Liberty. These three soon became leaders in the resistance to the Stamp Act. Declared Hancock: "I will not be a slave. I have a right to the liberties and privileges of the English Constitution...
...wealth paid for the enthusiasm of the waterfront bravos who rallied round the Rebel leaders. On one occasion, he provided ? 1,000 for the care and feeding of the mob. In 1766 Hancock won a seat in the state legislature as the protégé of Samuel Adams, who had been elected the previous year (Otis had been there since 1761). From then on, his political star kept rising...
...roman à clef as a genre cannot be blamed. It holds an eminent position in literary history. In Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1748), the villainous seducer, Lovelace, happened to be the Duke of Wharton. Robinson Crusoe was based on the desert-island experiences of one Alexander Selkirk off the coast of Chile, and Tristram Shandy caused not-always-comic shocks of recognition among the York neighbors of the puckish Laurence Sterne...