The people, who meant anything but fighting, trampled each other down in the attempt to escape.

Five or six lives were lost, and fifty or sixty persons were badly hurt; but the painful impression wrought upon the national conscience was well worth the price.

British blood has never since been shed by British hands in any civic contest that rose above the level of a lawless riot.

The immediate result, however, was to concentrate and embitter party feeling.

The grand jury threw out the bills against the yeomen, and found true bills against the popular orators who had called the meeting together.