He states that, “Judgement of Death against those Soldiers would have been as foul a Stain upon this Country as the Executions of the Quakers or Witches.” He then continues to say, “This however, is no Reason why the Town should not call the Action of that Night a Massacre”. In other words, Adams recognizes that the soldiers could not have been entirely blamed for the event since the Bostonians provoked them to do so, but also that they took matters too far by murdering the Bostonians who were simply throwing snowballs at
He states that, “Judgement of Death against those Soldiers would have been as foul a Stain upon this Country as the Executions of the Quakers or Witches.” He then continues to say, “This however, is no Reason why the Town should not call the Action of that Night a Massacre”. In other words, Adams recognizes that the soldiers could not have been entirely blamed for the event since the Bostonians provoked them to do so, but also that they took matters too far by murdering the Bostonians who were simply throwing snowballs at