[Windflier]

When British troops failed to show, 4,722 militiamen from 37 towns in Worcester County lined both sides of Main Street and forced every official and every prominent Tory in town to resign or recant thirty times over, hats in hand, as they made their way through the gauntlet from Heywood¹s Tavern (at Exchange Street) to the County Court House.

This scene could easily be repeated today in Washington DC (albeit with millions more patriots), should the people be sparked to do so. The result would also be the same. The government would concede and stand down on that very day.

[huldah1776]

“These patriots were furious because they had just been disenfranchised by the Massachusetts Government Act. Having lost control of the governmental apparatus, AND IN PARTICULAR OF THE COURTS(all caps mine), they feared that arbitrary rulers might soon seize their tools, their livestock, or even their farms. “

Hmmm. Agreed. History should repeat itself.