Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-30

and, rushing forward, aimed blow at
the captains head, which grazed his
hat and fell pretty heavily upon his
arm. However. the soldiers con-
tinued the fire, successfully. till seven
OF eight, or, as some say, eleven guns
We're discharged.
by this fatal maneuver three men
were laid dead on the spot and two
more struggling for life, but what
showed degree of cruelty unknown TO
British troops. at least since the
House of Hanover Cautious editorD
has directed their operations, was an
attempt to fire upon OF push with their
bayonets those persons who undertook
to remove the slain and wounded.
Mr. Benjamin Leigh, now UNDER
taker in DELPHI mandatory, came up,
and, after some conversation with
| Captain Preston relative to his con-
duct in this affair, advised him to draw
| off his men, with which he complied"
After presenting d list of the dead
and wounded the Gazette thus des-
cribes the public resentment which fol-
lowed
THE people were immediately
alarmed with the report of this horrid
massacre, the bells We're set a-ringing
and great numbers soon assembled at
the place where this tragic scene had
| been acted; their feelings may be bet
ter conceived than expressed; and
while some were taking care of the
dead and wounded the rest We're in
consultation what to do in those
dreadful circumstances. But so little
inundated we're they, Notwithstanding
their being within a few yards of the
main guard, and seeing the Twenty
ninth Regiment under arms, dra wn up
in King street, that they kept their
station and appeared, as an officer of
rank expressed it, ready to run upon
the very muzzles of their muskets.
The lieutenant governor soon came
into the town house, and there met
some of His Majesty's Council, and a
number of civil magistrates a con-
siderable body of the people i'm
mediately entered the Council Cham
Der, and expressed themselves to His
Honor with a freedom and warmth be-
coming the occasion"
There is nothing hysterical surely in
the foregoing recital of an outrage
which must have reused the bitterest
resentment of the whole community.
The editors contented themselves with
a firm declaration that such struggles
must cease. The introduction, or
lead" as the technical jargon goes.
shows how temperate We're the edi-
tolial views:
The town of Boston, it says, 'af-
fords recent and melancholy demon
stration of the destructive conse-
quences of quartering troops among
citizens in a time of peace. under
pretense of supporting the laws and
aiding civil authority; every consid-
crate and unprecedented person among
us was deeply impressed with the APP
prehension of these consequences when
it was known that a number of regi-
ments We're ordered to this town under
such a preteXt, but in reality to en-
force oppressive power in the province,
and to quel a spirit of liberty, which,
however, it may have been basely OPP
posed and even ridiculed by some.
would do honor to any age and coun-
try A few persons among us have
determined to use all their influence to
procure SO destructive a measure with
Il view to their securely enjoying the
profits of an American revenue, and
unhappily both for Britain and this
country they found means To effect it"
Chicago Record Herald.