Tea Party Account in the Boston Gazette

     "A number of brave & resolute men, determined to do all in their power to save their country from the ruin which their enemies had plotted, in less than four hours, emptied every chest of tea on board the three ships commanded by the captains Hall, Bruce, and Coffin, amounting to 342 chests, into the sea!! without the least damage done to the ships or any other property. The matters and owners are well pleas'd that their ships are thus clear'd; and the people are almost universally congratulating each other on this happy event." -Boston Gazette Account of the Boston Tea Party (http://www.boston-tea-party.org/account-boston-gazette.html)
    
     I agreed with what Patrick said about the article on the Tea Party in the Boston Gazette in class on Wednesday.  He brought up how the article praises what the men did and focused on the heroic nature of their actions.  It doesn't address the danger or risk of the situation at all besides using the word brave to describe the party goers.  I like how the writer said "342 chests into the sea!! without the least damage done to the ships or any other property."  Even though they just did something incredibly dangerous in order to show the British that no one would even have a chance at drinking the tea, the writer makes it sound like they just saved the world, and they didn't even damage anything!!  The writer also calls it a "happy event," but I'm not sure it is the word I would choose to describe an event that just defied the King of England.  It does make sense that the writer would be excited about this event and what it signifies for the colonies, but I would have added some sense of caution in a city-wide newspaper article.    It's entertaining to look at different people's accounts and see how they viewed a monumentous event that we can only look back on today and be able to see the big picture and the risk it involved while these things may not have been quite as obvious and in the open for those alive at the time.