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SCGCJ.773.032
13 Apr 1773:21, 22 (385)
Boston, March 8. Friday last being the anniversary of the
5th of March, when agreeable to a vote of the town meeting
was called, . . . reported that they had engaged Dr.
Benjamin Church, to deliver 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 of the 5th of March,
1770.
. . . [Description of oration and illuminations]
In one of the Chamber Windows was exhibited the following
lines:
Canst thou, spectator, view this crimson scene,
And not reflect what these sad portraits mean?
Or can thy slaughter'd brethren's guiltless gore,
Revenge, from year yo year, in vain implore?
. . . [20 more 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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