Beadle's Dime Novels No. 115: The Sons of Liberty — page 8: what you’re looking at

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‘es Ee oe ee ee .. mong nd a e iid ed r= inte = al —_ + Fy - a a > z, 4 : “ROSS ‘ 10 | THE SONS OF LIBERTY. this rough country, “frontier law” was the law, and ihany an officer of the king was roughly handled, whose case never came before his majesty’s courts, which did not care to notice every nice offense against the common law, knowing, as the judges did, that the sturdy foresters would laugh at their authority. Many secret bands were formed, and it had become quite common for the young men to meet in council, pass _ seditious resolutions and speak against the king and his coun- cil. Dick Connor and his youngest brother John were stanch Sons of Liberty, while David was known to be a faithful ally — of Sir John and ready to do any thing for him. <A coldness had sprung up between the brothers in consequence, and Dayid had gone to Johnson’s Hall to live, and was made a lieutenant in Johnson’s new regiment of yeomanry, which was raised — with the intention of putting down any more of the insur- rectionary efforts of these “ Sons of Liberty.” Schenectady was in a terrible state on the day when the odious stamp-act was announced. Men ran about the streets with angry faces, upon which a stern resolve to die rather than submit was to be read. All at once the crowd began to gather at the center of the village, where a man was speaking rapidly. No one knew from whence he-came. He was ~ plary _— young, apparently less than thirty, with a commanding figure, and dark, flashing eyes. He spoke eagerly, earnestly. He pointed out to them the fatal effect of yielding to any such act of Parliament. ‘ Once establish a precedent,” said he, “ and your liberties are gone forever. Yield in this instance, and — you will be called upon to yield in a hundred more. America — never will submit to taxation from abroad—never.” The peo- ple cheered the young speaker. Who was he? Whence did 4 he come? These questions ran from mouth to mouth and were answered by the speaker himself. “It matters but little,” he said, “ what my namé@ may be. It is enough that I am one of the men whom that noble man, Colonel Bane, called ‘ Sons of Liberty ’ in the British Parliament. We claim the name. It is ours by right. Sons of Liberty we are and we will be. Let “men prate as they will of ‘allegiance to the king’ I honor the powers that be; I have fought for the king in Canada, under the glorious Wolfe, and saw Aim die. I am ready to give my blood again in the same cause, if the king will honor - Oo an Comicbooksscom