Louisiana Tea Party Roundup

UPDATE! …….NOW SET FOR WEDNESDAY APRIL 15th
“We The People” Bayou Tea Party
April 15 Starting At 5:30 pm.
Across from the Terrebonne Parish Court Square in Houma at Ye Old Post Office on main street.
WE WILL BE MEETING AT YE OLD POST OFFICE ACROSS FROM THE COURT HOUSE. PLAN TO BE THERE AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE. DRESS THE PART IF YOU CAN OF A COLONIALIST, NATIVE AMERICAN OR YOUR SELF. IT IS STILL SET TO BEGIN AT 5:30PM . TEA WILL BE PROVIDED TO THROW BUT IF YOU FEEL THE NEED TO BRING YOUR OWN BY ALL MEANS DO SO. BROADCASTING WILL BE THERE TO COVER THE EVENT. IF YOU DO BRING TEA OR BOXES LABELED AS SUCH IT MUST BE BIO DEGRADABLE. NO BOXES WILL BE ALLOWED THROWN INTO THE BAYOU ONLY TEA OR TEA LIKE SUBSTANCES i.e.(CYPRESS MULCH, NO PAPER,PLASTIC or CONFETTI). YOU WILL BE EXPECTED TO MIND YOUR MANNERS AS GOOD CITIZENS OR YOU WILL BE TAR AND FEATHERED THEN PUT IN THE STOCKS. BRING YOUR FLAGS, SIGNS,DRUMS, FLUTES AND PIPES! AFTER OUR SAY A PROCESSION WILL MARCH FROM THE COURT SQUARE AREA TO THE WATER LIFE MUSEUM PARK BRIDGE. YOU CAN THEN SPEAK YOUR MIND STRAIGHT SANS THE CREAM AND SUGAR THEN TOSS SOME TEA!!!!
THE WORD IS SPREADING!!!!!!!!!!

This is not about parties, Republicans or Democrats its about principals, Values, History and the future of freedom for ourselves and our children!
We are working on a 1 Hour informative program about our Constitution and govt. followed by a march to the docks to let Washington D.C. know what we think of their handiwork. Get your colonial dress and garb then come for the occasion and look the part. Wave your flags,raise your signs. Have your opinions be heard with your fellow Americans. FOLLOW OUR CONSTITUTION!!!, NO MORE SPENDING !!! and NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!!!……PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY!!!!….more info is coming ,we’re working as fast as we can.

GIVE US LIBERTY DON’T GIVE US DEBT!

THIS IS AN OPEN AND FREE 1ST AMENDMENT EVENT OF RIGHT TO ASSEMBLY!

MUST SEE VID : inspirational

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb4Kfvcx0pw

PATRIOTS and COHORTS
Dress the part, it’s easy.

MEN: Wide brim hat (straw gardening hat from TARGET will work w/black paint) helpful link: http://www.ehow.com/how_4450149_make-colonial-hat.html . Long sleeve shirt, vest ,long tube socks and shoes or knee high boots, neck tie wrapped around turned up collar then tucked into shirt between upper buttons.
Wear slacks and turn legs in on themselves just below the knee and pin them. Socks should reach above the knee for coverage.

Women: Long skirt, long sleeve shirt, apron and shower cap style hat or bonnet.

Indian type dress is also fine as well as frontiersman (coonskin cap and buckskin).

more images here link: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://newacquisitionmilitia.com/MEMBERS%2520PERSONA%27S%255B1%255D_clip_image058.jpg&imgrefurl=http://newacquisitionmilitia.com/MEMBERS%2520PERSONA%27S%255B1%255D.htm&usg=__BoaHx532hm6O_pIlJhEuwebmS4A=&h=407&w=300&sz=29&hl=en&start=145&um=1&tbnid=gIG97vKKFSbbwM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=92&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfrontier%2Bcloths%2B1770%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D140%26um%3D1

Shopping list: Two drummers(who can drum) and a piper (who can play) AKA”The Minute Men” You know, these guys

SOME HISTORY ON THE BOSTON TEA PARTY

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Victory in the French and Indian War was costly for the British. At the war’s conclusion in 1763, King George III and his government looked to taxing the American colonies as a way of recouping their war costs. They were also looking for ways to reestablish control over the colonial governments that had become increasingly independent while the Crown was distracted by the war. Royal ineptitude compounded the problem. A series of actions including the Stamp Act (1765), the Townsend Acts (1767) and the Boston Massacre (1770) agitated the colonists, straining relations with the mother country. But it was the Crown’s attempt to tax tea that spurred the colonists to action and laid the groundwork for the American Revolution.

Colonialists attack,
tar and feather
a hapless tax collector

The colonies refused to pay the levies required by the Townsend Acts claiming they had no obligation to pay taxes imposed by a Parliament in which they had no representation. In response, Parliament retracted the taxes with the exception of a duty on tea – a demonstration of Parliament’s ability and right to tax the colonies. In May of 1773 Parliament concocted a clever plan. They gave the struggling East India Company a monopoly on the importation of tea to America. Additionally, Parliament reduced the duty the colonies would have to pay for the imported tea. The Americans would now get their tea at a cheaper price than ever before. However, if the colonies paid the duty tax on the imported tea they would be acknowledging Parliament’s right to tax them. Tea was a staple of colonial life – it was assumed that the colonists would rather pay the tax than deny themselves the pleasure of a cup of tea.

The colonists were not fooled by Parliament’s ploy. When the East India Company sent shipments of tea to Philadelphia and New York the ships were not allowed to land. In Charleston the tea-laden ships were permitted to dock but their cargo was consigned to a warehouse where it remained for three years until it was sold by patriots in order to help finance the revolution.

In Boston, the arrival of three tea ships ignited a furious reaction. The crisis came to a head on December 16, 1773 when as many as 7,000 agitated locals milled about the wharf where the ships were docked. A mass meeting at the Old South Meeting House that morning resolved that the tea ships should leave the harbor without payment of any duty. A committee was selected to take this message to the Customs House to force release of the ships out of the harbor. The Collector of Customs refused to allow the ships to leave without payment of the duty. Stalemate. The committee reported back to the mass meeting and a howl erupted from the meeting hall. It was now early evening and a group of about 200 men disguised as Indians assembled on a near-by hill. Whopping war chants, the crowd marched two-by-two to the wharf, descended upon the three ships and dumped their offending cargos of tea into the harbor waters.

Most colonists applauded the action while the reaction in London was swift and vehement. In March 1774 Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts which among other measures closed the Port of Boston. The fuse that led directly to the explosion of American independence was lit.

ADVERTISMENT

Take your tea and shove it.

George Hewes was a member of the band of “Indians” that boarded the tea ships that evening. His recollection of the event was published some years later. We join his story as the group makes its way to the tea-laden ships:

“It was now evening, and I immediately dressed myself in the costume of an Indian, equipped with a small hatchet, which I and my associates denominated the tomahawk, with which, and a club, after having painted my face and hands with coal dust in the shop of a blacksmith, I repaired to Griffin’s wharf, where the ships lay that contained the tea. When I first appeared in the street after being thus disguised, I fell in with many who were dressed, equipped and painted as I was, and who fell in with me and marched in order to the place of our destination.

The Boston Tea Party
When we arrived at the wharf, there were three of our number who assumed an authority to direct our operations, to which we readily submitted. They divided us into three parties, for the purpose of boarding the three ships which contained the tea at the same time. The name of him who commanded the division to which I was assigned was Leonard Pitt. The names of the other commanders I never knew. We were immediately ordered by the respective commanders to board all the ships at the same time, which we promptly obeyed. The commander of the division to which I belonged, as soon as we were on board the ship, appointed me boatswain, and ordered me to go to the captain and demand of him the keys to the hatches and a dozen candles. I made the demand accordingly, and the captain promptly replied, and delivered the articles; but requested me at the same time to do no damage to the ship or rigging. We then were ordered by our commander to open the hatches and take out all the chests of tea and throw them overboard, and we immediately proceeded to execute his orders, first cutting and splitting the chests with our tomahawks, so as thoroughly to expose them to the effects of the water.

In about three hours from the time we went on board, we had thus broken and thrown overboard every tea chest to be found in the ship, while those in the other ships were disposing of the tea in the same way, at the same time. We were surrounded by British armed ships, but no attempt was made to resist us.

…The next morning, after we had cleared the ships of the tea, it was discovered that very considerable quantities of it were floating upon the surface of the water; and to prevent the possibility of any of its being saved for use, a number of small boats were manned by sailors and citizens, who rowed them into those parts of the harbor wherever the tea was visible, and by beating it with oars and paddles so thoroughly drenched it as to render its entire destruction inevitable.”

References:
Hawkes, James A, Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party, with a Memoir of George R. T. Hewes… (1834) reprinted in Commager, Henry Steele, Morris Richard B., The Spirit of ‘Seventy-Six vol I (1958); Labaree, Benjamin Woods, The Boston Tea Party (1964).

How To Cite This Article:
“The Boston Tea Party, 1773,” EyeWitness to History, http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2002).

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superblueflag says:

April 8, 2009 at 8:13 am

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Iraqi Laqi says:

April 11, 2009 at 7:40 am

I only do teabagging with members of the opposite sex. Thus, i won’t be attending the tea party.
BAZET says:

April 11, 2009 at 8:02 pm

UPDATE! …….NOW SET FOR WEDNESDAY APRIL 15th
“We The People” Bayou Tea Party
April 15 Starting At 5:30 pm.
Across from the Terrebonne Parish Court Square in Houma at Ye Old Post Office on main street.
WE WILL BE MEETING AT YE OLD POST OFFICE ACROSS FROM THE COURT HOUSE. PLAN TO BE THERE AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE. DRESS THE PART IF YOU CAN OF A COLONIALIST, NATIVE AMERICAN OR YOUR SELF. IT IS STILL SET TO BEGIN AT 5:30PM . TEA WILL BE PROVIDED TO THROW BUT IF YOU FEEL THE NEED TO BRING YOUR OWN BY ALL MEANS DO SO. BROADCASTING WILL BE THERE TO COVER THE EVENT. IF YOU DO BRING TEA OR BOXES LABELED AS SUCH IT MUST BE BIO DEGRADABLE. NO BOXES WILL BE ALLOWED THROWN INTO THE BAYOU ONLY TEA OR TEA LIKE SUBSTANCES i.e.(CYPRESS MULCH, NO PAPER,PLASTIC or CONFETTI). YOU WILL BE EXPECTED TO MIND YOUR MANNERS AS GOOD CITIZENS OR YOU WILL BE TAR AND FEATHERED THEN PUT IN THE STOCKS. BRING YOUR FLAGS, SIGNS,DRUMS, FLUTES AND PIPES! AFTER OUR SAY A PROCESSION WILL MARCH FROM THE COURT SQUARE AREA TO THE WATER LIFE MUSEUM PARK BRIDGE. YOU CAN THEN SPEAK YOUR MIND STRAIGHT SANS THE CREAM AND SUGAR THEN TOSS SOME TEA!!!!
THE WORD IS SPREADING!!!!!!!!!!

This is not about parties, Republicans or Democrats its about principals, Values, History and the future of freedom for ourselves and our children!
We are working on a 1 Hour informative program about our Constitution and govt. followed by a march to the docks to let Washington D.C. know what we think of their handiwork. Get your colonial dress and garb then come for the occasion and look the part. Wave your flags,raise your signs. Have your opinions be heard with your fellow Americans. FOLLOW OUR CONSTITUTION!!!, NO MORE SPENDING !!! and NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!!!……PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY!!!!….more info is coming ,we’re working as fast as we can.

GIVE US LIBERTY DON’T GIVE US DEBT!

THIS IS AN OPEN AND FREE 1ST AMENDMENT EVENT OF RIGHT TO ASSEMBLY!

MUST SEE VID : inspirational

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb4Kfvcx0pw

PATRIOTS and COHORTS
Dress the part, it’s easy.

MEN: Wide brim hat (straw gardening hat from TARGET will work w/black paint) helpful link: http://www.ehow.com/how_4450149_make-colonial-hat.html . Long sleeve shirt, vest ,long tube socks and shoes or knee high boots, neck tie wrapped around turned up collar then tucked into shirt between upper buttons.
Wear slacks and turn legs in on themselves just below the knee and pin them. Socks should reach above the knee for coverage.

Women: Long skirt, long sleeve shirt, apron and shower cap style hat or bonnet.

Indian type dress is also fine as well as frontiersman (coonskin cap and buckskin).

more images here link: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://newacquisitionmilitia.com/MEMBERS%2520PERSONA%27S%255B1%255D_clip_image058.jpg&imgrefurl=http://newacquisitionmilitia.com/MEMBERS%2520PERSONA%27S%255B1%255D.htm&usg=__BoaHx532hm6O_pIlJhEuwebmS4A=&h=407&w=300&sz=29&hl=en&start=145&um=1&tbnid=gIG97vKKFSbbwM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=92&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfrontier%2Bcloths%2B1770%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D140%26um%3D1

Shopping list: Two drummers(who can drum) and a piper (who can play) AKA”The Minute Men” You know, these guys

SOME HISTORY ON THE BOSTON TEA PARTY

Printer Friendly Version >>>
Victory in the French and Indian War was costly for the British. At the war’s conclusion in 1763, King George III and his government looked to taxing the American colonies as a way of recouping their war costs. They were also looking for ways to reestablish control over the colonial governments that had become increasingly independent while the Crown was distracted by the war. Royal ineptitude compounded the problem. A series of actions including the Stamp Act (1765), the Townsend Acts (1767) and the Boston Massacre (1770) agitated the colonists, straining relations with the mother country. But it was the Crown’s attempt to tax tea that spurred the colonists to action and laid the groundwork for the American Revolution.

Colonialists attack,
tar and feather
a hapless tax collector

The colonies refused to pay the levies required by the Townsend Acts claiming they had no obligation to pay taxes imposed by a Parliament in which they had no representation. In response, Parliament retracted the taxes with the exception of a duty on tea – a demonstration of Parliament’s ability and right to tax the colonies. In May of 1773 Parliament concocted a clever plan. They gave the struggling East India Company a monopoly on the importation of tea to America. Additionally, Parliament reduced the duty the colonies would have to pay for the imported tea. The Americans would now get their tea at a cheaper price than ever before. However, if the colonies paid the duty tax on the imported tea they would be acknowledging Parliament’s right to tax them. Tea was a staple of colonial life – it was assumed that the colonists would rather pay the tax than deny themselves the pleasure of a cup of tea.

The colonists were not fooled by Parliament’s ploy. When the East India Company sent shipments of tea to Philadelphia and New York the ships were not allowed to land. In Charleston the tea-laden ships were permitted to dock but their cargo was consigned to a warehouse where it remained for three years until it was sold by patriots in order to help finance the revolution.

In Boston, the arrival of three tea ships ignited a furious reaction. The crisis came to a head on December 16, 1773 when as many as 7,000 agitated locals milled about the wharf where the ships were docked. A mass meeting at the Old South Meeting House that morning resolved that the tea ships should leave the harbor without payment of any duty. A committee was selected to take this message to the Customs House to force release of the ships out of the harbor. The Collector of Customs refused to allow the ships to leave without payment of the duty. Stalemate. The committee reported back to the mass meeting and a howl erupted from the meeting hall. It was now early evening and a group of about 200 men disguised as Indians assembled on a near-by hill. Whopping war chants, the crowd marched two-by-two to the wharf, descended upon the three ships and dumped their offending cargos of tea into the harbor waters.

Most colonists applauded the action while the reaction in London was swift and vehement. In March 1774 Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts which among other measures closed the Port of Boston. The fuse that led directly to the explosion of American independence was lit.

ADVERTISMENT

Take your tea and shove it.

George Hewes was a member of the band of “Indians” that boarded the tea ships that evening. His recollection of the event was published some years later. We join his story as the group makes its way to the tea-laden ships:

“It was now evening, and I immediately dressed myself in the costume of an Indian, equipped with a small hatchet, which I and my associates denominated the tomahawk, with which, and a club, after having painted my face and hands with coal dust in the shop of a blacksmith, I repaired to Griffin’s wharf, where the ships lay that contained the tea. When I first appeared in the street after being thus disguised, I fell in with many who were dressed, equipped and painted as I was, and who fell in with me and marched in order to the place of our destination.

The Boston Tea Party
When we arrived at the wharf, there were three of our number who assumed an authority to direct our operations, to which we readily submitted. They divided us into three parties, for the purpose of boarding the three ships which contained the tea at the same time. The name of him who commanded the division to which I was assigned was Leonard Pitt. The names of the other commanders I never knew. We were immediately ordered by the respective commanders to board all the ships at the same time, which we promptly obeyed. The commander of the division to which I belonged, as soon as we were on board the ship, appointed me boatswain, and ordered me to go to the captain and demand of him the keys to the hatches and a dozen candles. I made the demand accordingly, and the captain promptly replied, and delivered the articles; but requested me at the same time to do no damage to the ship or rigging. We then were ordered by our commander to open the hatches and take out all the chests of tea and throw them overboard, and we immediately proceeded to execute his orders, first cutting and splitting the chests with our tomahawks, so as thoroughly to expose them to the effects of the water.

In about three hours from the time we went on board, we had thus broken and thrown overboard every tea chest to be found in the ship, while those in the other ships were disposing of the tea in the same way, at the same time. We were surrounded by British armed ships, but no attempt was made to resist us.

…The next morning, after we had cleared the ships of the tea, it was discovered that very considerable quantities of it were floating upon the surface of the water; and to prevent the possibility of any of its being saved for use, a number of small boats were manned by sailors and citizens, who rowed them into those parts of the harbor wherever the tea was visible, and by beating it with oars and paddles so thoroughly drenched it as to render its entire destruction inevitable.”

References:
Hawkes, James A, Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party, with a Memoir of George R. T. Hewes… (1834) reprinted in Commager, Henry Steele, Morris Richard B., The Spirit of ‘Seventy-Six vol I (1958); Labaree, Benjamin Woods, The Boston Tea Party (1964).

How To Cite This Article:
“The Boston Tea Party, 1773,” EyeWitness to History, http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2002).

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Pat says:

April 14, 2009 at 3:07 pm

From a reader of mine in Minden:

We are having one in Minden on the courthouse steps at 4:30.
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