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PJ.773.023
24 Mar 1773:31 (1581)
Boston, March 8. Friday last being the anniversary of the
5th of March, when, agreeable to a vote of the town a
meeting was called, at which the committee appointed last
year for that purpose, reported that they had engaged Dr.
Benjamin Church, to delivery an oration, on the dangerous
tendency of standing armies being placed in free and
populous cities, and to perpetuate the memory of the horrid
massacre perpetrated on the evening the 5th of March, 1770.
. . . In one of the chamber windows was exhibited the
following lines:
Canst thou, spectator, view this crimson'd scene,
And not reflect what these sad portraits mean?
Or can thy slaughter'd brethren's guiltless gore,
Revenge, from year to year, in vain implore?
. . . [20 lines]
At a quarter after nine, the time of the evening when the
bloody scene was acted, the paintings were taken in, and
most of the bells in town tolled till ten.
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