And again, though the blood of martyrs and patriots had not streamed on the scaffolds, it streamed in the streets, in the massacre of the inhabitants of Boston, by the British soldiery in the year 1770.
Paine recounts the violence faced by American colonists, highlighting the brutality of British soldiers in Boston.
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