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Well, however that may be, the fact is that the next night in this place there was an indignation meeting. And I don't know, one, two thousand people stayed here all night until the Governor agreed to withdraw the British regiments to the barracks.

So, you see, it's not surprising that this is where the Revolution was conceived. This is where they invented a radical underground to advertise the injustices, the latest tax, the latest misbehavior of the British garrison. In fact, this Old Meeting House became so notorious as a cradle of sedition, that at one point when the British heard that there was to be a protest meeting, they packed the whole place with soldiers. And the speaker, Joseph Warren had to climb in through that window which is still known as Warren's Window.

Incidentally, during the Revolutionary War, the British, I'm sorry to say, showed their crassness which is characteristic of armies of occupation. They ripped out all the pews for firewood and turned this place into a stable and a riding school. I think we see one thing by now, revolutions don't grow on trees, and revolutionary chain does not forge itself. It has to be secured by a conspiracy.

Now the links between all the activists in the colonies were established by something called the Committees of Correspondence and they were inspired by this man, James Otis, a Whig lawyer, a Latin scholar, and a customs agent who resigned in order to argue the case against the British searching of houses without a writ. Now, the actual founder of the underground was a disciple of his, Samuel Sam Adams, a tough, tender, wily man who used to rough up his appearance to show his bond with the common people. But he was a genuine rabble-rouser. In fact, he was the first man to urge the actual treasonable act of calling a Continental Congress of all the rebel colonies.

And the night after the Boston Massacre, he was here. And a little later, when the British said, "Well, if you won't pay for your own defense with an internal tax, a stamp tax, we shall have to impose external taxes, say, on goods coming into the port of Boston." He called, Adams called an indignation meeting here. And a crowd of volunteers was painted all their faces and bodies with red ochre to resemble the Indians. That's why they were called Red Indians in the first place, and fussed out with feathers. And Adams led them down to the harbor, there to throw overboard that famous shipment on which the British demanded threepence-a-pound tax on tea. Not all the tea got soaked in the harbor. Somebody collected a few shavings that fell on the wharf and passed down through many generations. And here it is, that you could say the American equivalent of the key to the Bastille. And probably, the most expensive tea bag extant.