HOW
THE PATRIOT FOREFATHERS USED COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE
The website https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/committees-of-correspondence
has helpful information on how the patriot forefathers used Committees of
Correspondence to achieve their political objectives:
“In
Boston on Monday, November 2, 1772 … [patriots] … organized a town meeting …
and garnered enough support to vote in a resolution to create a standing
Committee of Correspondence. The purpose of the Boston Committee of
Correspondence was to “Prepare a statement of the rights of the colonists, and
of this province in particular, as men, as Christians, and as subjects; Prepare
a declaration of the infringement of those rights; and Prepare a letter to be
sent to all the towns of this province and to the world, giving the sense of
this town.” …the majority of towns in Massachusetts took stock in
the example set by the Boston Committee of Correspondence and established a
network of Committees of Correspondence throughout the colony of Massachusetts…
Soon
after the formation of the Boston Committee of Correspondence and the network
of Committees of Correspondence which soon sprung up all over Massachusetts, in
the spring of 1773 Committees of Correspondence were established in the
colonies of Rhode Island, Conneticut, New Hampshire,
and South Carolina. By February 1774, eleven of the Thirteen Colonies,
excluding Pennsylvania and North Carolina, had established networks of
Committees of Correspondence…
The
primary function of the Committees of Correspondence was the championing and
implementation of the Patriot cause through diplomatic means. The vast network
of Committees of Correspondence served as a powerful pipeline through which
information could be transmitted to all of the Thirteen Colonies. The
Committees of Correspondence served as a well-calculated Patriot network for
the dissemination of news and information as it related to grievances with
Britain from the major cities to the rural communities. The Committees of
Correspondence were responsible for ensuring the information they disseminated
was accurate and reflected the views of their local parent governments on
particular issues, the colonial interpretation of British policy, and that the
information they issued was sent to the proper factions. Information was
disseminated by the Committees of Correspondence throughout the Thirteen
Colonies through pamphlets and letters carried by post riders or onboard ships…
The
Committees of Correspondence could hardly claim to be the voice of the majority
of colonists in the Thirteen Colonies, but their voice was the loudest and most
broadcasted of all the factions. It was very easy to establish and form a local
Committee of Correspondence. Any localized group of Patriots could form a
committee and join the vast network of Committees of Correspondence and serve
as the Patriot voice for their respective region. Roughly, 7,000 to 8,000
Patriots served as delegates at the local and colony level on the various
Committees of Correspondence.”
American patriots today can similarly employ
such a tool to help restore much of what has been progressively lost via the
liberal agenda. An effort is underway to organize Committees of Correspondence
in all 50 States of the USA. Anglo-American patriots should form these Committees
of Correspondence with the eventual goal of calling a Continental Congress of
Anglo-American patriots from the States of the USA, like the American patriot
forefathers did:
This
Continental Congress can then establish the structure for a coming confederated
Anglo-American nation under the Articles of Confederation. Our American patriot
forefathers formed a nation under the Articles of Confederation with the
Continental Colors (also called the Grand Union Flag) as its flag:
