This political cartoon draws attention to the men pouring tea down the throat of a British Commissioner named John Malcolm.
Before the Declaration Of independance law was introduced, people from Boston were angry about Johns support towards importing British goods. They worshipped in anyway they could. The colonists wanted to make their own goods without having to pay high taxes if they got them from Great Britain. Thus, colonists boycotted British goods in hope for a change in law. From then on,  if people from Boston got caught breaking the law, they would be punished with humiliation or even death.

Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man