Tam’s Reviews > New York > Status Update

p.362 “The Patriots might or might not be legal POW, there was an honest legal quarrel over that, but whatever their status, what did it say of the humanity of his own govt that they could treat these men in such a way? You may call a man a rebel, you may call him a criminal, But what kind of blindness, what prejudice or what cruelty could induce the British authorities to lock them up and murder them like that?”

“…When people are angry, any insult will do; and prejudice is magnified into a cause.” - Ben Franklin (in the book, no idea if he actually said that, but what an unfortunately timeless statement)