The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-04-10

council consulted with the commanding officer.
|of the two regiments which are in the town
IThey have their orders from the General at New
York. II is not in my power to countermand
those orders. The Council have desired tina
the two regiments may be removed to the Castle
From the particular concern which the twenty
ninth regiment has had in your differences, Col
.Dalrymple, who is the commanding officer o.
the troops, has signified that that regiment shall
without delay be placed in the barracks at The
Castle, until he can send TO the General and re
ceive his further orders concerning both the regi
ments, and that the main guard shall be removed
land the fourteenth regiment so dispersed ano
laid under such restraint that all occasion OF III
lure disturbances may be prevented.
The foregoing reply having been read and tul
|ly considered-the question was put, whether
the report be satisfactory Passed in the mega
tive, almost unanimously. (Dissentient)
1t was then moved and voted that John Han
cock, Esq, Mr.. Samuel Adams, Mr. William
Warren, Joshua Henshaw, Esq. and Samuel
|Pemberton, Esq. be committee TO wait on his
Honor the Lieut. Governor, and inform him that
liz is the unanimous opinion of this meeting that
Ithe reply made to vote of the inhabitants pre-
scented to his honor in the morning, Is by no
means satisfactory, and that nothing less will
satisfy than total and immediate removal OF
the troops.
The committee having waited upon the Lieu
tenant Governor agreeable to the foregoing vote,
laid before the inhabitants the following vote Of
Council received from his honor.
His Honor, the Lieutenant Governor, laid be-
fore the board vote of the town of Boston,
passed this afternoon, and then addressed the
board as follows:
Gentlemen Of the Council, lay before you
Fa 1'otc 81 the town bf Boston, which have just
now received froH2 them, and now asyyour
advice whasSou j5fse atscessary y - dee
upon it,
The Council thereupon expressed themselves
Ito be unanimously of opinion that it was abso-
|utely necessary, for his Majesty's service, the
good order of the town. and the peace of the
province, that the troops should be immediately
removed out of the town of Boston, and there
upon advised his Honor to communicate this
advice of the Council to Col. Dalrymple, and to
pray that he would order the troops down to
Castle William. The committee also informed
the town, Col. Dalrymple, after having seen the
vote of Council said to the committee, that he
now gave his word of honor that he would be-
gin his preparations in the morning, and that
there should be no unnecessary delay until the
whole of the two regiments were removed TO
the Castle.
A committee was also appointed to take in
formation of the transactions of Monday night,
who proceeded with great diligence, and col
lected so much light as well satisfied the meet
ling, (Which was adjourned in the afternoon to
Dr. Sewe's meeting house, that the peoples
were but too well grounded
Soon after the second committee had reported,
the grand committee returned the second time
and Mr.. Hancock, their chairman, read their re-
port as above, which was received with clap
al ho IL.
solved; and number Of the inhabitants appear
ling to watch the centre of the town and the
prison, the rest went quietly to their respective
habitations.
Out of many very daring instances of the sol.
ders' behaviour on Monday night, their stop
ping Messrs. Joseph Ayres, Edward Crafts and
John Alden, in the street, and threatening their
lives, is selected, the number being too large to
be any way particular at present. These gen.
tlemen, from the south part of the town, were
moving towards the town-house; when two
corporals with about twenty soldiers passed
them, with 'muskets and fixed bayonets, then
halted, wheeled about and surrounded them,
calling them pack of damn'd rascals, and say
ling for three coppers they would blow their
brains out; at the same time giving orders tol
lone half to cock their relocks, and the other te
made ready. Messrs. Ayres, &c. told them they
HAD nothing TO say ito them, but had other bust
mess. On this, Corporal Eustice struck Messrs
alden and Crafts with his bayonet and bruised
them much; but, attempting to push Mr.. Crafts
with his bayonet was prevented by the Other
corporal, who ordered the soldiers to march off
A military watch has been kept every night al
THE town-house and prison, in which many Of
THE most respectable gentlemen of the town have
appeared as the common soldier, and night after
might have given their attendance. This pro
|mises revival of that military spirit which had
too much subsidized under the administration oil
the Governor, who fattered the B--sh Ny
that the Boston ladies would plunge both them.
selves and posterity into perdition rather than
deny themselves cup of tea.
Thursday two companies the twenty-ninth
went to the Castle, others went the next day,
and the remainder are to go to-day; and the four
teenth will likewise be sent with all possible
despatch, as Col. Dalrymple assures the com
mittee, who can get no rest unless they can al
all times certify the people that all diligence is
using to free them from the society Of such dan.
gerous inmates.
The neighboring towns have shown such q
generous and brotherly disposition towards us
that we want words TO express our gratitude and
esteem for their regard.
1t is strongly suspected, from several circum-
stances, that one or more of the guns were dis
charged from window in room over the Gus
|tOm-nouSe, improved Dy the commissioners, In
the tragcal affair of last Monday evening; seve-
'ral persons have been taken up and examined
relative thereto. "
Last Thursday, agreeable to general reques,
,of the inhabitants, and by the consent ofparents
and others, were followed to their grave in sue.
'cession, the bodies of Messrs Samuel Gray,
samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, and Crispus
|Attucks, the unhappy victims who fell in the
bloody massacre of the Monday evening prece-
ding On this occasion most of the shops in
town were shut, all the bells were ordered to toll
Ia solemn peal, as were also those in the neigh
boring towns Of Charlestown and Roxbury.
The procession bagan to move between the
hours of four and five in the afternoon: two OF
! shv -urfvleenepe sunefSss, SIz: James Cafuwei
land Crspus Attacks, who were strangers, borne
Bfrom Faneuil Hall, attended by numerous traiI
Sof persons Of all ranks; and the other two, viz
{Mr. Semuel Gray, from the house of MI
Benjamin Gray, CHS brother,) on the nortl
side of the Exchange, and Mr.. Samuel Nave
rick, from the house Of his distressed mother
! Mrs. Mary Maverick, in Union street. eacl
followed by their respective relations and friends
\ the several hearses forming junction in Kin'
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