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EG.773.011
2-9 Mar 1773:1271,1272 (5/241)
Boston, March 8. [Report on commemoration of the massacre of
March, 1770] . . . [24 lines follow]
In the evening a great number of the Friends of
Constitutional Liberty, met at Mrs. Clapham's in King-
Street, near the spot where the tragical deed was
perpetrated; at which place was erected a lanthorn of
transparent paintings, adjusted to the balcony, in front,
exhibiting "The fatal effects of a standing army, posted in
a free city."
On the right, the figure of America sitting in a mourning
posture, and looking down on the spectators, with this
label, "Behold my sons."
On the left side, a monument inscribed, "To the memory of
Messirs Samuel Gray, 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
1770."
In a window east of the balcony, was placed a large
transparent frame, containing the following verses.
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?
. . . [5 verses follow.]
At a quarter after nine, the precise time of the evening
when the bloody scene was acted, the paintings were taken
in, and the bells set to tolling, which held till ten.
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