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As a descendant of the Otis family, I thought you should know that the portrait at the top of this post is of James Otis Sr, not the James Otis (Jr) that this article is about.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04263367678035066542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-26319109815460457732011-08-27T09:37:26.435-06:002011-08-27T09:37:26.435-06:00Great post, Brad. I too am an Otis fan!Great post, Brad. I too am an Otis fan!Brian Tubbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15412421076480479001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-19104528697913818242011-08-23T07:49:01.094-06:002011-08-23T07:49:01.094-06:00hey thanks for shearing such informative blog with...hey thanks for shearing such informative blog with us >>....Dapoxetinehttp://www.ishoppharmacy.com/buy/dapoxetine-online.phpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-87898450748178178132011-08-22T06:17:12.170-06:002011-08-22T06:17:12.170-06:00There was a James Otis Sr. and a Jr.There was a James Otis Sr. and a Jr.Jonathan Rowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04079637406589278386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-12984695646789366402011-08-21T21:05:02.165-06:002011-08-21T21:05:02.165-06:00Otis did have one wild life (and death). I think ...Otis did have one wild life (and death). I think that is one of the reasons that I find him so interesting. I mean, who the hell gets struck by lightning? <br /><br />Seriously!Brad Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17669677047039491864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-38895110137260181052011-08-21T20:01:02.764-06:002011-08-21T20:01:02.764-06:00Brad, thx for more James Otis, whom I've becom...Brad, thx for more James Otis, whom I've become fond of quoting since your first post on him. An astonishing intellect, and it was his 1961 argument against the British parliament's Writs of Assistance that laid the political/philosophical groundwork for the revolution.<br /><br /><i>James Otis considered himself a loyal British subject. Yet in February 1761, he argued brilliantly against the Writs of Assistance in a nearly five-hour oration before a select audience in the State House. His argument failed to win his case, although it galvanized the revolutionary movement. More than thirty years later, with considerable exaggeration, John Adams claimed that "the child independence was then and there born,[for] every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take arms against writs of assistance." In fact, his challenge to the authority of Parliament made a strong impression on John Adams, who was present, and thereby eventually contributed to the American Revolution. </i><br /><br />Why wasn't James Otis a Founder-Founder? Because some Tory bastard bashed him over the head! <br /><br /><i>Otis’ constant struggle against the Crown gained political change but also made political enemies. In another scathing attack on crown officials, he disparaged custom commissioners in the Boston Gazette. In 1769, one of those commissioners, John Robinson, confronted Otis in a coffee house. They came to blows, and Otis received a head injury that further aggravated what some described as an already failing mental health. Otis suffered from gaps in his sanity for the rest of his life. <br /><br />Otis took John Robinson to court for compensation, and won his case; in the end he merely accepted Robinson’s public apology.<br /><br />A shell of his former self, Otis retired from public life. On May 23, 1783, in a dramatic end for this dramatic man, he was struck and killed by a bolt of lightening.<br /></i>Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-18791399590486959772011-08-21T19:20:32.443-06:002011-08-21T19:20:32.443-06:00Otis family biographer John J. Waters wrote that J...Otis family biographer John J. Waters wrote that James Otis, Jr., “rejected both slavery and the belief in Negro inferiority, arguing [in Rights of the British Colonies] that as the ‘law of nature’ made all men free it must be applied equally to ‘white or black.’ Yet he never freed his own colored ‘boy.’”<br /><br />Otis pursued intellectual arguments further than most of his contemporaries, reaching logical ends that many people found unthinkable. But he was also an upper-class man with a conventional lifestyle.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-62561719802975376332011-08-21T17:30:05.745-06:002011-08-21T17:30:05.745-06:00Great post, Brad. There are many "second tie...Great post, Brad. There are many "second tier" founders who fought against slavery and for a more equal society. John Jay, for example, was a leader in the fight for abolition in New York State.Mark D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05000893614655251587noreply@blogger.com