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), includin...
| Main Author: | Schrag, Zachary M. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.