Posted on 12/19/2009 6:04:04 PM PST by TAdams8591
You've heard of the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, but how many have heard of the Philadelphia Tea Party which soon followed? It was attended by 8,000 Philadelphians (one third the population of the city at that time)on December 27, 1773.
How many are aware the Tea Tax rebellion actually began in Philadelphia with the ratification of eight tax resolutions in October 1773 shortly thereafter adopted in early December by our then brothers and sisters in Boston?
Please join us for our CHRISTMAS TEA PARTY commemorating the 226th Anniversary of the First Philadelphia Tea Party, the first known commemoration of that historic event, and thus itself history in the making!
When: December 27, 2009, 2-3 PM
Where:Independence Mall (the site of the original Tea Party)
5th and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Featuring: WPHT Radio Host Dom Giordano as Dr. Benjamin Rush, leader of the December 27, 1773 Philadelphia Tea Party, reciting the original Resolutions adopted by the Boston and Philadelphia Tea Parties; Fife and Drum Corps;Program Booklets; Hot Coco, Cider, Tea, and Cookies.
In Lieu of signs, please bring a small gift for our soldiers. Please see our website for the list of appropriate gifts.
Free and Open to the Public. Visit www.IHTPA.org.
Since April, the Association has sponsored many successful programs,including: The April 18 Philadelphia Tea Party II at Independence Hall (attendence 1800);the July 4 Independence Hall Tea Party III (attendance 2500); and the August Specter/Sibelius Town Hall Rally (IHTPA was the first group to call for the rally locally and nationally; wrote and sent out the press releases, got the rally permit, and publicized the event, which set the tone for Town Halls nationwide). Additionally, we sent 14 buses to the March on Washington, September 12; 8 buses to DC on November 4; and held an array of rallies at Congressional Offices and Town Halls.
Independence Hall Tea Party Association, a tri-state (PA, NJ, DE) regional organization, is a truly grassroots Tea Party group, which was founded independently of and works without, the direction or assistance of any National Organization (though we do collaborate), our first Tea party led and organized on February 27, by Chris Clemency. Chris's research efforts uncovered the information about the first Tea Party on the site of Independence Hall. Nationally, we are allied with Nationwide Tea Party Coalition.
Independence Hall Tea Party Association, sincerely honored and privileged to bear the name of one of the greatest symbols of Liberty in America, throughout the world, and throughout history, is hopeful this event inspires the realization, the fight for Limited Government and Freedom is TIMELESS.
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Perhaps it is time for a tar and feather party.
To be sure, that’s a custom worth resurrecting, and what so many of today’s leaders sorely deserve.
Remember when mommy said “don’t touch that it’s hot”! I guess the defiant children have not learned thier lesson!
The captain of the tea-bearing ship was induced not to come into Philadephia by threats that he would be tarred and feathered. Incidentally, there was also a tea party in Greenwich, NJ, which a Wash. ComPost article called “the last of the five major colonial tea parties.” Where were the other 2?
“Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say “what should be the reward of such sacrifices?” Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom — go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! “___Samuel Adams___original “Tea Partier”
I thought the five were Boston, New York, Philladelphia, Annapolis and Charleston
I thought the five were Boston, New York, Philladelphia, Annapolis and Charleston
However, one of the points of this commemoration is that the Tea Party rebellion actually BEGAN IN PHILADELPHIA in October 1773 led by Benjamin Rush, with the ratification of 8 tax resolutions.
Those words make me weep for this country.
Notable last paragraph from the broadside...
Thus this important affair in which there has been so glorious an exertion of Public Virtue and Spirit, has been brought to a happy issue; by which the force of a law so obstinately persisted in to the prejudice of the national Commerce, for the sake of the principle on which it is founded, (a right of taxing the Americans without their consent,) has been effectually broken--and the foundations of American Liberty more deeply laid than ever.
http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-historian/20657
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See post #15. : )
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