rascals" and threatened
before the soldiers to use bayonets.
spoke.

5. The mob crowded 5. The soldiers
the soldiers off the should have kept to their
sidewalk, threw snow barracks, but they paraded
and lumps of ice at the streets and
them. The young men pricked the townspeople
dared the soldiers to with their bayonets.
fire, threatened to drive
them to their barracks
and to beat them down.

6. Captain Preston 6. Captain Preston
was acting under orders, was unwise, irritating,
and he warned the colonists overbearing, and by his
that he would preserve attitude provoked the
order at any risk. colonists beyond human
endurance.

7. The firing was a 7. Captain Preston
mistake. It was not by ordered his men to fire
Captain Preston's orders. on the colonists.

8. The first shot was 8. A British sympathizer
fired by a masked man in a mask fired
who appeared on the into the crowd of unarmed
balcony of a house and colonists.
fired at the soldiers.

9. The British soldiers 9. By withdrawing
were soon withdrawn the troops the British
and everything confessed that they were
done to make the colonists in the wrong.
feel right about
the affair. This showed
that the British were
still very friendly to the
colonists, and desired
their good will.

10. Judges who were 10. The judges were
supposed to be honorable British appointees, not
men heard all the in sympathy with the
evidence and would not colonists and too much
be liable to make any prejudiced to be able to
mistake. decide fairly.

11. The judges 11. The judges knew
were so thoroughly they were wrong and
convinced that the soldiers were afraid to leave the
were not guilty question to the jury.
that they told the jury
what verdict to give.

The "points" given above show some of the really minor debatable topics
that arise under the larger question. They show, too, how differently
the same incidents may appear to different eyes. Perhaps some of the
"points" are stated unfairly, to