The Fruits of Arbitrary Power
THE FRUITS OF
ARBITRARY POWER; or the BLOODY MASSACRE,
Perpetated in King-street, Boston, by a Party of the XXIXth Regt.
In which Mess. Sam. Gray, Sam. Maverick, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks, Patrick Carr, were killed.
Six others were wounded, two of them [Christopher Monk and John Clark] mortally.
things? and all the Workers of Iniquity
boast themselves? [T ]hey break in pieces
thy People, O Lo [rd], and afflict thine
Heritage. Ps. xciv 4, 5. Unhappy Boston! see thy Sons deplore,
Thy hallow'd walks besmear'd with guiltless Gore:
While faithless PRESTON, and his savage Bands,
With murd'rous Rancour stretch their bloody
Hands;
Like fierce Barbarians grinning o'er their Prey,
Approve the Carnage and enjoy the Day.
If scalding Drops, from Rage, from Anguish
wrung,
If speechless Sorrows, lab'ring for a Tongue, Or if a weeping World can aught appease
The plaintive Ghosts of Victims such as these;
The Patriot's copious Tear for each are shed,
A glorious Tribute which embalms the dead
But know, Fate summons to that awful Goal,
Where Justice strips the Murd'rer of his Soul:
Should venal Court, the scandal of the Land,
Snatch the relentless Villain from her Hand,
Keen Execrations on this Plate inscrib'd
Shall reach a Judge who never can be brib'd. They slay the Widow and the Stranger,
and murder the Fatherless. Yet, they
say, The Lord shall not see: N [e ]ither
shall the God of Jacob regard it.
Ps. xciv. 6, [7]
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