[That imports be stopped at once, and that exports be regulated by the General Congress when it comes.]
"That industry and frugality be adopted, in their largest extent, throughout this Colony; and that horse-racing, and every species of expensive amusement, be laid aside, as unsuitable to the situation of the country, and unbecoming men who feel for its distress."
e. Middlesex County (July 15)
[This county alone takes a royalist tone.]
Resolved, That we do not approve of the conduct of the people of Boston in destroying the tea ... and notwithstanding the tax on tea must be esteemed a violent infringement of one of the fundamental privileges ... yet we apprehend violence cannot justify violence. ... A desistance from the consumption of tea, and a confidence in the virtue of our countrymen, whose sense of the spirit of the law will no doubt induce a total disuse of it, are much more eligible means, and more probably will work a repeal of the Act, than disorders, outrages, and tumults.
130. The First Continental Congress
a. Method of Voting, etc.
John Adams' "Diary" (Works, II, 366 ff.).