The fires of Philadelphia citizen-soldiers, nativists, and the 1844 riots over the soul of a nation

"... [A] comprehensive look at the 1844 riots that pitted nativist Protestants in Philadelphia against Irish Catholic immigrants. Positioning the riots as a precursor to the Civil War, Schrag details how leaders of the American Republican Party (a forerunner of the Know Nothing Party), including cha...

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Main Author: Schrag, Zachary M. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pegasus Books, [2021]
Edition:First Pegasus Books edition.
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505 0 |a Hurrah for the natives, and kill the damned Irish! -- Brilliant and unscrupulous -- The best amateur officer in the United States -- American-born citizens -- The mob shall rule -- Bayonets and ball cartridges -- The gospel of the Devil -- Arouse, native borns! -- A band of armed ruffians -- I have got my man! -- A rush of the soldiers -- How can we fire on our own citizens? -- The sky a sheet of flames -- The Lord seeth -- Humanity weeps -- Won't we give it to you on the Fourth of July? -- Are there any guns in the church? -- Don't you fire! -- By Jesus Christ we'll have him out! -- A fight must come off some time -- You bloody sons of bitches! -- Secret, covert, murderous -- The mob is now supreme -- Saviors of the homestead and hearthstone -- Congress or the penitentiary. 
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