On August 14, 1765, the recently-formed “Sons of Liberty” made themselves known in a very public way.
Starting as “the Loyal Nine,” the group formed in Boston in the summer of 1765 in response to the Stamp Act. By August their agitation produced a violent response, when on the 14th a mob burned the Stamp Distributor in effigy and ransacked his home. Four years later, the Sons of Liberty gathered at Boston’s “Liberty Tree” to commemorate the event and one of the participants compiled a list of those present.
According to this USHistory.org page, however, “The success of these movements in undermining the Stamp Act cannot be attributed to violence alone. Their most effective work was performed in newsprint [as] accounts of the most dramatic escapades spread throughout the colonies.”
The most famous of the Sons of Liberty’s escapades was the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773. That particular protest contrasts with recent protests we’ve seen ….
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Well might we ask ourselves, who are today’s true-born Sons of Liberty? And for what liberty do they fight?
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