It was suppressed, and five of the participants were hanged.

This punishment was unduly severe and exceedingly injudicious.

A brave race can forget the victims of the field of battle, but never those of the scaffold.

The making of political martyrs is the last insanity of statesmanship.

It is true that both the man who arrested and the judge who condemned the prisoners were Dutch, and that the British Governor interfered on the side of mercy; but all this was forgotten afterwards in the desire to make racial capital out of the incident.