The Southwark Riots
PENNSYLVANIA FREEMAN
JULY 18, 1844
From the evidence taken by the Court of Common Please we are enabled to present a more accurate account of the principal features of the origin and progress of the late riots, than that which was given in the reports of the daily newspapers at the time.

http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/953.htm

PUBLIC LEDGER - PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1844

http://www.aoh61.com/history/bible/southwark_riots.htm

George S. Roberts, affirmed-I reside 157 John street, Northern Liberties. On Sunday July 7, 1844, being informed that the lower districts of the town were disturbed, curiosity led me down to St. Philip de Neri; arrived about 8 A.M. I approached the place by Third street; large crowds at all the corners of the adjacent streets; those crowds somewhat remote from the building composed of decenter materials, but those near the church composed of the worst class of mankind, the very dregs of the canaille of a large city, a great number of boys.

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"Oh, mercy mercy me
Ah things ain't what they used to be
No, no"

M.Gaye

http://www.irish-society.org/Hedgema...iladelphia.htm

On Friday, May 3, 1844, the American Nativist Party, (aka American Republican Party), set up a platform in the almost one hundred percent Irish Third Ward of Kensington, a Philadelphia suburb. Speakers delivered tirades against the Irish, the Pope,. the Catholic Church, and the immigrants. The theme was that "a set of citizens, German and Irish, wanted to get the Constitution of the U. S. into their own hands and sell it to a foreign power. " The crowd jeered and began to tear down the platform. The Nativists retreated temporarily

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"Oh, mercy mercy me
Ah things ain't what they used to be
No, no"

M.Gaye

Image of Southwark riots.
http://updatecenter.britannica.com/e...4&rendTypeId=4

__________________
"Oh, mercy mercy me
Ah things ain't what they used to be
No, no"

M.Gaye

A PDF about the riots

http://www.hsp.org/files/fullandcomp...hwarkfinal.pdf

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"Oh, mercy mercy me
Ah things ain't what they used to be
No, no"

M.Gaye

If you go to the "Timeline" on the PAHRC site you can see the broadside issued by Bishop Kenrick in response to the riots. The original and only known copy is on display at PAHRC:

http://www.rc.net/philadelphia/pahrc/index.html

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All I said was that intellectuals are like the Mafia, they only kill their own.

Woody Allen
Stardust Memories

Top hats, jackets, cumberbunds, bonnets and pettticoats. Now that's how you dress properly for a riot.

They were respectable Philadelphians.

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All I said was that intellectuals are like the Mafia, they only kill their own.

Woody Allen
Stardust Memories

Another link on the riots
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/print...&ar=526&pi=apg

and one more

http://www.hsp.org/files/thephiladelphiariotsof1844.pdf

and another

http://www.yale-university.com/glc/archive/955.htm

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"Oh, mercy mercy me
Ah things ain't what they used to be
No, no"

M.Gaye

dammit, I'm gonna quit responding as to how cool your posts are because I want to read a book by you!

And I know its not your words, but it is your research. I sat next to tom brokenjaw at a "writer's dinner" when he won an award for a book published that was no more than letters from others . Good book, but he made near millions from a book he didnt write-with a proper bibliography you could do the same!

If you do it I'll out myself at your borders book signing...

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DISCLAIMER: Alesis is a South Street business owner
(keep that in mind when reading his or her responses)

Well thanks again alesis. I love the stories about the Southwark Riots cause my Irish Catholic family lived in that area at the time.

another link

http://www.yale-university.com/glc/archive/959.htm

http://www.yale-university.com/glc/archive/956.htm

http://www.yale-university.com/glc/archive/957.htm

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"Oh, mercy mercy me
Ah things ain't what they used to be
No, no"

M.Gaye