The Tea Never Should be Landed
Boston Tea Party Illustration
A broadside was a single printed sheet of any size which contained a text and often drawings. Broadsides were a way of informing people about an event, person or idea. They rarely advertised items for sale. Rather, they publicized someone's idea on a topic or announced an event or message. Today, broadsides have been replaced by posters, billboards or message boards. But in colonial times they were powerful tools for informing an large audience. Besides word of mouth, broadsides were the quickest and easiest way to inform and even rally people. This resource is one broadside about the dumping of tea in Boston Harbor. The People
Questions:
Whereas it has been reported that a Permit will be given by the Custom House for Landing the Tea now on Board a Vessel laying in this Harbour, commanded by Capt. Hall: THIS is to Remind the Publick that it was solemnly voted by the Body of the People of
this and the neighboring Towns assembled at the
Old-South Meeting House on Tuesday the 30th Day
of November, that the said Tea never should be landed in this Province, or pay
one Farthing of Duty: And
as the aiding or assisting in procuring or granting any such Permit for landing the said Tea...must betray
an inhuman thirst for Blood, and will also in great Measure accelerate confusion and Civil War: This is
to assure such public Enemies of this Country; that
they will be considered and treated as Wretches unworthy to live and will be made the first Victims of our just Resentment.