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"Messieurs Edes & Gill, Please to insert the following, Tea! How I shudder at thy fatal Stream!"

Messieurs Edes & Gill, Please to insert the following, Tea! How I shudder at thy fatal Stream!
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In this anonymous letter to the editors of a Boston newspaper published in August 1768, readers are implored to avoid consuming tea. The writer advocates boycotting tea as a way to save consumers money, adding that if fewer colonists paid the expensive duty on tea, Great Britain would notice as their tax revenue decreased.