Under the Liberty Tree A Story of The 'Boston Massacre' Quotes

“Lieutenant-Governor Hutchinson "doubted his authority to order the soldiers to fire upon the populace." [A] These boys had shown several times in the vicinity of this same so-called Liberty Hall of what acts they were capable, and there was not one of them but that looked forward to the time when it should be possible to do something more than simply vent his displeasure in words. They had been among the throng who, in open defiance of the law, had made prisoner of Giles Hendricks; tarred and feathered, and then carried him in a cart through the principal streets of the city to the Liberty”
― James Otis, Under the Liberty Tree A Story of The 'Boston Massacre'