Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1524
Book Description
The Congressional Globe
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1524
Book Description
Speeches Made in the House of Representatives Upon the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, January - July, 1854
Author: Speech on the Memorial of the "democratic Members" of the Legislature of Rhode Island
Author: Caleb Blood SmithThe Congressional Globe
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Speech of George Evans, of Maine, in Reply to the Hon. Mr. McDuffie, of South Carolina, on the Tariff
Author: George Evans (du Maine.)Publisher:
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Category : Tariff
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
The Bowery Boys
Author: Peter AdamsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313043116
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
In the decades before the Civil War, the miserable living conditions of New York City's lower east side nurtured the gangs of New York. This book tells the story of the Bowery Boys, one gang that emerged as part urban legend and part street fighters for the city's legions of young workers. Poverty and despair led to a gang culture that was easily politicized, especially under the leadership of Mike Walsh who led a distinct faction of the Bowery Boys that engaged in the violent, almost anarchic, politics of the city during the 1840s and 1850s. Amid the toppled ballot boxes and battles for supremacy on the streets, many New Yorkers feared Walsh's gang was at the frontline of a European-style revolution. A radical and immensely popular voice in antebellum New York, Walsh spoke in the unvarnished language of class conflict. Admired by Walt Whitman and feared by Tammany Hall, Walsh was an original, wildly unstable character who directed his aptly named Spartan Band against the economic and political elite of New York City and New England. As a labor organizer, state legislator, and even U.S. Congressman, the leader of the Bowery Boys fought for shorter working hours, the right to strike, free land for settlers on the American frontier, against child labor, and to restore dignity to the city's growing number of industrial workers.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The Utica Convention. Voice of New-York!! Proceedings of the Utica Convention, February 16, 1848, Etc
Author: Convention (UTICA)Proceedings and Debates of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Constitutional ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Proceedings and Debates of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Constitutional ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description