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Good evening. Perhaps youve heard of me. Ive been a shoemaker most of my , but as an old man i am a paraded around in my colonial clothing is the last surviving participant in the boston tea party. How strange it is to think of what i have seen here in boston it, how i witnessed a nation torn of protest. I was no student of history or politics myself. Of ancation consisted understanding of reading and writing. I belonged to no associations but participated in no government. Our war for before independence, i became a staunch liberty boy. Continually reflecting upon the unwarrantable suffering inflicted on boston by the tyranny of great written, and my mind is excited by a desire to aid in chastising the king. Here here. Hall after this very the bloody massacre on king street in march of 1770 and again for the meetings of the body of the people in 1773 when we decided the fate. I came into this building a shoemaker. I left a true citizen. Tonight, i ask you to indulge my memory and join ....