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MASS. STARTS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

                Boston, Mass., June 1.―The new government for Massachusetts Bay's took things over here.
                Thaingonna be no more town meetins allowed, an Governor Gage, just sent over from England, is gonnaby the whole government all to himself―with a coupla regimentsa troops. The colony charter's annuled, startin today.
                They wont let no more tradin vessels to Boston neither, to punish Boston for the "Tea Party" they pulled off last December, when a shiploada tea from China got tomahawked an thrown intath harbor by a crowd as never got discovered yet.
                It's planned to keep up the dictatorship till th'Bast India Company gets paid for the tea.
                Thes wharf owners in Salem gonna let Boston importers use their landins nameantime.

                Concord, Mass, June 1.―The Council―that represents the partsa Massachusetts that's gonna resist Gage's dictatorship― just got goin.
                Each county that's organized what they call a "civil disobedience" has got a County Convention that represents the town meetings an workers' factories in the county. The Council, or Provincial Assembly, represents the Conventionsa all the counties that's got any. Thes a few counties in Maine also represented.
                As town meetins might stopped or raided (it's remembered that Andros in 1688 raided one in Ipswich), every town in the civil disobedience zone's gonna have a "committee of safety" to act in emergencies. An to keep the peace, an to keep the ministerial militia out, thes been a local militia started for each town, an sworn in tabee "ready at a minute's notice." The people's startinta call em "minute-men."
                Concord's headquarters for the Council, the Committeesa Safety, an the minute-men. It was picked cause the civil disobedience first got organized in Middlesex County.
                The Council aint tryinta start a new government, nor a fight neither, but it's planninta block Gage every way possible, an not let him get away with anythin.

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VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE "MOURNS"

                Williamsburg, Va., June 1.―The Housa Burgesses declared June 1 a daya mournin, nacountath dictatorship in Massachusetts Bay.
                The Governor ordered the legislature to dissolve, an they refused; so he called the militia tadrive em out. They met again in another buildin an voted to ask eleven other legislatures to get together with them tastart a general councilath American colonies for common action in dealin with England.
                They proposed callin it the United Coloniesa America―or "Continental Congress" after Franklin's trya twenty years ago to federate the colonies.

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RESIST!

                The civil Disobedience is a fine way to fight for liberty. Tainno government by itself―leastwise, 'taint intended tabee one―but it'll do if thaint nothin better aroun. It's got its own local administration, its own courts, its own army, its own laws―an no lawyers reconized there neither. The civil disobedience has even got its own factories that it runs, an that's morn the dictator's got. Tlooks like the dictator's territory (that aint much morna strippa coast from Boston to Salem) is gonna hafta buy things offn the civil disobedience country, or get nothin at all. So, even if the Civil Disobedience―the Council's organization―aint tryinta be a government, it could step right intath plasa one any minute, an without borrowin nothin offn what the dicator's got in Boston or Cambridge or Salem or wherever he plans to have his government hold forth.
                We hope the Council's like its army―"ready at a minute's notice"

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