Oration Delivered at the Request of the Inhabitants of Boston, to Commemorate the Bloody Tragedy of the 5th of March, 1770, by Doctor Joseph Warren. [1775-03-06] Warren, Joseph. [S4-V2-p0038] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Note from page v2:42: 2.* The patience with which this people have borne the repeated injuries which, have been heaped upon them, and their unwillingness to take any sanguinary measures, has very injudiciously been ascribed to cowardice, by persons both hero and in Great Britain. I most heartily wish that an opinion so erroneous in itself, and so fatal in its consequences, might he utterly removed before it be too late; and I think nothing farther necessary to convince every intelligent man that the conduct of this people is owing to the tender regard which they have for their fellow-men, and an utter abhorrence to the shedding of human blood, than a little attention to their general temper and disposition discovered when they cannot be supposed to be under any apprehension of danger to themselves. I will only mention the universal detestation which they shew to every act of cruelty, by whom, and upon whomsoever committed; the mild spirit of their Laws; the very few crimes to which capital penalties are annexed, and the very great backwardness which both Courts and Junes discover, in condemning persons charged with capital crimes. But if any should think this observation not to the purpose, I readily appeal to those gentlemen of the Army who have been in the camp, or in the field, with the Americ

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