A week after the 5th of March, The Boston Gazette published its account of the events of a momentous week: the deaths on King Street, the Whig victory over the Governor on March 6th, the huge funeral for the victims on March 8th, and the persistent efforts of the town meeting to assure the actual departure of British troops from Boston. The Gazette honored the dead by publishing its coverage with a black border. The coverage began with s statement of the political lesson that Whigs hoped that readers would extract from the events of the week: "The Town of Boston affords a recent and melancholy Demonstration of the destructive Consequences of quartering Troops among Citizens in a Time of Peace. ..."