Early this morning, departed these parts, universally lamented by the friends
of slavery, but to the joy and satisfaction of the lovers of
freedom, that baneful and detested weed, East India TEA, whose return is never
desired or wished for by the true sons of American liberty.
SOURCE: William Duane, Editor, Passages from the Diary of
Christopher Marshall, Kept in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the
American Revolution, Vol. 1, 1774-1777, p. 15
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