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CG-NL.772.014
13 Mar 1772:32,33 (9/435)
Boston, March 9, 1772. . . [24 lines on a political oration
on the dangers of standing armies]
At night a select number of the Friends of Constitutional
Liberty, met at Mrs. Clapham's in King Street, and exhibited
on the balcony a lanthorn of transparent paintings, having
in front a lively representation of the bloody massacre
which was perpetuated near that spot on the 5th of March
1770. Over their heads was inscribed, "The fatal effects of
a standing army, posted in a free city." On the right,
America sitting in a mourning posture, looking down on the
spectators, with this label, "Behold my sons." On the left
a monument, sacred to the memory of Messirs Samuel Grey,
Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, Patrick Carr, and Crispus
Attucks, who were barbarously murdered by a party of the
29th Regiment on the 5th of March 1779.
At a quarter after nine, the painting was taken in, and
the bells muffled toll'd till ten. The solemnity of the
whole day, and especially the evening, was truly affecting.
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